Pre-Thanksgiving Celebrating

We finally got around to some Pre-Thanksgiving celebrating this week.  

We actually started with one of our favorite things - watching Christmas movies.  This one happened to be a Micky Mouse Christmas, so our friends Donald and Pluto had to watch with us.

Then we went to "Eat Like a Pilgrim" night at Thanksgiving Point.  We've been wanting to do this for a long time and finally made the effort.  It was fantastic!  

It is a Thanksgiving re-enactment with pilgrims and Native Americans.  

We played pilgrim games - this one is Fox and Geese.

We checked out lots of displays like furs and a miniature replica of the Mayflower.

And then we ate like pilgrims.  We had stewed pumpkin, corn pudding, turkey, roasted pork, cobbler, and cider.

We got some "napkin education" - the pilgrims sure did use napkins much more liberally than we do.  

Their napkins were huge and you actually wear them . . . or in our case, the napkins wore us.

Then I got called up on the stage to do some "fowling".  I was the one who went up and down the corn stalks trying to flush out the turkeys.  See me over there on the left by the corn stalks.

I did some pilgrim dancing - very social!

Sam and I made corn husk dolls . . . . 

. . . . boy dolls, of course.

We checked out more displays.

And I spent some time chatting with Myles Standish.  He was the military advisor for the Plymouth Colony.  In real life, this actor is a 5th grade teacher and he begged me to come to his school for 5th grade.

We even got to try on some military stuff.

Poor Sam - the armor was almost as heavy as he is.

We also visited with some of the Native Americans.

We even got to see what it was like to be in the stocks.  This is how they punished people - public humiliation by locking them up in the stocks in the square.

 Finally, we decided to have an early Thanksgiving dinner tonight with our most favorite, required Thanksgiving food - turkey, dressing, and yams.  MMMM, MMMM, good!!!

Sam Alert:  Hey everyone - We spent some quality time outside this week too.  Ok, I guess it depends on your definition of the word "quality".  It is the end of fall - so of course that means yard work - and lots and lots of yard work. 

Here we are just finishing up before the rain/snow started.  We sure got a lot of work done in a very very short amount of time - that's what happens when we all work together.

And then - after the snow, we threw some snowballs around, mostly at mom.  

Alrighty - Sam out.  Have a great week!