Well this years thanksginving turned out to be a little different than I thought it would be. My youngest cousin Jacob or”j’eb” as we call him threw a fit so my family ended up not bringing along their girlfriends. My cousin te’sha still brought her boyfriend but she doesnt really hang out with us all that much anyways. So as Neal(my older brother) and I arrived at the place where all of us were staying we didn’t see any other cars there, Turns out the rest of my family was out eating. Neal and I proceeded to circle the house for 15 minutes looking for stairs that would take us up to the main living area on the third floor. After that time and many frustrated/sarcastic comments from my brother and I, we called my grandmother to ask how we were supposed to get in. She told us that we had to punch the code into the lock on the front door, Now my brother and I had seen this and tried random button mashing to no avail, and figured that this couldnt possible be the main entrance. So after we got inside it was an all out race for the nearest bathroom, up three flights of narrow stairs at a breakneck pace pushing and shoving until we finally uncovered the bathroom. Me being the smaller of the two was shoved aside and left to find my own restroom. After we got done we went down to the bottom floor to check out the gaming equipment, A fooseball table, a ping-pong table, and a pool table made up the entertainment. We made our way to the fooseball table where neal proceeded to get whooped, then arrived the rest of the family. My cousin Nick,who is like another brother to me….. only closer…. carrying my cousin te’sha and her boyfriend,Kyle. Nick and I proceeded to catch up on times that we could remmember and then my cousin Jacob arrived, I proceeded to bug him about several memories from his past that he will never live down no matter how hard he tries, then we all went inside. Nick and I played a few rounds of ping-pong that Im sure to the trained eye were very painful to watch, now just to give you a feel of these ping pong games, the layout of the room had A large support beam on one side of the table and a wall on the other side, these objects proceeded to be very good for diving into to make rediculous ping-pong plays that I’m sure would have made Sports Center’s top 10. After a few painful round of this we went upstairs to eat, and then Nick went to call his girlfriend,Michelle. Now I would like to pause and congratulate my cousin Nick on what we guys like to call “The Catch” this is the girl that is about as close to perfect as you get. She has no other male friends, she is as cute as a button(whatever that means), when he isn’t there she doesnt go out, she consults him about everything, and she doesn’t care what he does as long as he isnt cheating on her. Now the funny thing is that she is a health nut, while my cousin is a pretty heavy smoker, (she doesnt know this) so she is trying to get him in shape……. it makes me chuckle. So after he got off the phone we spent the several hours playing more ping pong and fooseball until around 4 in the morning, then we figured we should probably get some sleep so we went upstairs and slept until around 10. After I got up i thought I would go get some breakfast so I got up and got a bagel, around 11 Nick woke up so we decided to go ahead and break out the ping pong again, after he called michelle of course. After he lost around 20 games we got bored so we got in his car and started driving around. As anyone who has ever been to a beach knows there is a “wings” on every street corner, but here there was an amazing store called Reef, where everything was 70% off!!! It was awesome!! except for the fact that there was nothing of interest in the store. So off to wings we went where everything was only 50% off. We walked around for about 25 minutes and got around to the place where they keep the footballs and such, and though “Hey we could totally play football in here!” so we picked up a football and went at it, the three of us running around wings throwing a football dangerously close to a ton of breakable items, After about 30 minutes of this a very cute girl who sounded russian or ukranian came up to tell us that we shouldnt do that any more. We asked if she would like to play and went on for about 30 more minutes, until we bid her a fond farewell and went on to do other things. Off to McDonalds we rode in style, and when we got to the drive thru the lady asked for our orders which we hadn’t really thought of so we had to sit there for about 10 minutes making up our minds and making people behind us very angry, after we left we headed back to the house for more ping pong and pool, I have to admit that by this point I was getting perty sick nasty good at ping pong. Me and my cousins started playing and the loser would rotate out, so after I had beaten each of them about 12 times a piece we went on to play pool. Now in pool on a scale of 1 to 10 my skills are about 3 so I didn’t fare so well at this game, and unfortunatly for Nick his phone had died and he didnt have his charger so he couldnt call michelle. However that didn’t deter him “Hey David can I see your phone?”, “sure dude”. As soon as he went outside I realized what I had just done….. I had just given michelle another outlet to contact my cousin thru….As the day progressed on she called him about 12 times, I answered each of them and had fun making her think she had the wrong number, or that Nick was off doing something stupid. After dinner and some really disturbing conversation from the rest of my family me and Nick went back downstairs for a Ping Pong off, I won yet again and had the joy of rubbing it in his face, then Nick saw a picture on the front of my phone of a girl and asked if I had any more, so I went and showed him her myspace, He proceeded to pester me with questions of “do you like her?” “are you gonna ask her out?”, To which I answered……. Pshht im not gonna tell you people that’s between me, Nick, and the Girl…… So while I was answering questions and looking at pictures my grandmother walked behind me and gave that whistle that construction workers do when a girl walks by…. yeah… that was creepy. Another night another Ping Pong tourney until 3. Woke up around 12 this time and went and got a couple bagels. Now this day was truly interesting, Around 1 Nick comes into the house and says “Hey Dave lets go get my tongue pierced”. I laughed and said alright so off we went to find a piercing place. About 10 minutes down the road we saw a sign for a tatoo parlor, So we kept going… After about 15 minutes we still hadn’t found it so we called the place, Turns out that the parlor was actually an hour in the opposite direction the sign was facing. When we got there we went in to ask the people about it and they said it would be $60, so we went outside to think it over, and after about 10 minutes and 2 cigarettes on my cousins part we went back in to get it done,now when the lady actually looked at his tongue she gave this laugh like (this guy is an idiot), so let me describe this lady to you, she was about 5′3″, with sleeve tatoos on both arms, a tatoo on her neck, piercings in her eyebrows, ears, nose,lip,and tongue, creepy emo/goth hoody, with chains all over her jeans. After seeing his tongue she started rattling off all the reasons that he shouldnt get his tongue pierced. So after about 5 mins of that we figured we didnt drive all that way not to get something pierced, So back in the store we went this time to get Nicks cartilage pierced. My cousin Jake had to leave cause he cant stand the sight of needles. After the piercing we went back and then to kroger. At Kroger we saw a Kitten roaming the parkinglot, and thought it would make a good gift for Te’sha since she loves cats, we then proceeded to order Jacob to chase the cat around the parking lot while we sat there and laughed. After he chased it for about 10 minutes it made its great escape down a hill. After Kroger we headed back to the house, and spent the rest of the day playing ping pong, fooseball and pool, until 3 again. The next morining my cousins left and me and Neal left that afternoon. That perty much summarizes my thanksgiving break, thank you all for playing along.David
