For the past week Ben has been out of town in London..
London, Ontario that is.While he was gone it was fun to get some girl time in at a birthday party and movie night
But it was weird not being able to call/text him because of the out of the country phone rates.
He didn't want to take my laptop (maybe because it is super old and slowing down)
so he borrowed one from Cornell instead.
This entailed not being able to download Skype and in us talking minimally on GChat a few times.
I'm not sure if the lack of laptop started the idea or just the necessity of it but Ben decided it was TIME to buy a new laptop. It just so happened to be Thanksgiving and Black Friday that same week!
After we ran that crazy 10K in June I decided we should try another race.
I found this 5K on their website and it was on Thanksgiving morning!
Ben and I stayed here to have our first Ithaca Thanksgiving this year, after our NYC Thanksgiving last year, so we got to run the Turkey Trot!
It was a lot of fun because you were supposed to guess how fast you thought your time would be for the race. Funny thing was that we found out it was 5.5 miles rather than a 5K when we got there!
Ben wrote a time down and I had to beat him so I wrote 2 seconds faster at 49:11.
Some of our friends ran too!
I found this 5K on their website and it was on Thanksgiving morning!
Ben and I stayed here to have our first Ithaca Thanksgiving this year, after our NYC Thanksgiving last year, so we got to run the Turkey Trot!
It was a lot of fun because you were supposed to guess how fast you thought your time would be for the race. Funny thing was that we found out it was 5.5 miles rather than a 5K when we got there!
Ben wrote a time down and I had to beat him so I wrote 2 seconds faster at 49:11.
Some of our friends ran too!
One of the rules of the race was no watches.
Somehow I managed to finish with a time of 48:50... only 21 seconds before my suggested time!
Then we decided to get cleaned up and I made a few Thanksgiving dishes for the first time. Here is the Cranberry Jello... with the yams & apples and green beans cooking
We enjoyed a great feast at our friends' with some delicious turkey of course
Here is Ben checking out the ads with the girls... he was trying to find the best laptop deal out there.
And of course the delicious dessert table with pies and cutie pie Aubrey
The boys did some gaming while we dished out the pie.
Ben said he wanted apple pie with ice cream. Earlier the ice cream scoop was being used in the mashed potatoes. I mentioned it would be funny to put potatoes on top instead of ice cream... and soon enough that is what I served to Ben.The girls and I watched in the kitchen and we were dying as Ben picked at his pie "a la mode"
We finally told Ben about the prank and he thought the ice cream was freezer burned and was politely eating it.
I'm grateful to have such a wonderful husband that doesn't complain
(most of the time)
Ben decided on an HP laptop at Walmart and went down at 10:30 pm to stand in line.
At 1:30 am I heard him climb into bed with me *(because I had early work at 5 am) stating that he had successfully purchased the computer and already got it set up!
Quite the successful Thanksgiving!
