I am now going to write my own Bai-u. You know… like Haiku, but Thomas-ized. I think the topic is going to be Thanksgiving.

Ahem…

Dry turkey is brown and meaty

As is wet turkey

Persian Rugs have nothing to do with Thanksgiving

But poodles might

So, what’d you think? Is it worthy of a Nobel Prize in Literature? No… I didn’t think so.

Since that was a big letdown, I’ll put some pictures up of a real American Thanksgiving in the Hector household.

We’ll start with the 38 lb. turkey being carved by Mr. D. It wasn’t quite done by the time we were ready to eat, so it spent a couple of minutes in the microwave. Yum! Sorry Mrs. D!...

We had a pretty big group up for several days in and around Turkey Day. 34 to be exact, and most of those from just three families. Unfortunately, we didn’t get a group shot with everybody, but here are representatives from each of the three families. Very diverse…

Here is a pic of our great-room (schoolroom/gameroom/familyroom) which for the day was converted into a dining room…

During the course of the holiday, many games were played, including a rousing game of Nertz…

As a tradition (which would have happily been broken by us older kids because of the cold temperature), we always play a game of capture the flag. Here is GI Ben all decked out in his BDUs and grease paint…

Another tradition that we have on Thanksgiving is to play Monopoly in the evening and all the way until midnight. The reason we play all night is because Christmas songs may not be sung until the day after Thanksgiving, hence the staying up until midnight to sing, and usually no later. I think Goose fell asleep…

And a shot at the other end of the table. We look pretty bored…

Ben even got delusional. He started saying something like “My tinfoil Indiana could beat out your tinfoil Africa any day!”…

The next day was spent just doing whatever. James got sucked into this one book he picked up…

And of course the thousands and thousands of Legos came out. A favorite among the boys…

We did manage to organize a shot with one of the families that came up. I am going to give you two pictures, and you have to find the differences. Here is the first…

And here is the second…

Did you find them? I know it’s hard, so take another glance if you missed them.

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I hope you enjoyed my randominity. And my bad spelling of made up words.

Giving Thanks always!