We celebrated Thanksgiving this year at my house with my family, my parents and my sister and her family all coming into Bloomington for a few days of family fun. We went out for Japanese food the night before Thanksgiving and had some Sushi and Hibachi at our favorite Japanese Steakhouse.

We started off Thanksgiving day with the usual cooking and traditional “Lovell Family” stories of past holiday fun. We always have plenty of funny stories to tell in my family, there are no shy people in my family so lack of conversation is never a worry.

It’s funny, we have a saying when the whole family gets together, we have what we like to call “Griswold Moments”. The saying is derived from Clark Griswold and the vacation series of movies. You know what I mean, burning down the christmas tree, cousin Eddie cleaning out his RV in the driveway, getting to WallyWorld only to see that it’s closed for the day, etc..

We always have these “Griswold Moments” when we get together. This year was no different. On Thanksgiving day we put the turkey in the oven at 9am and my wife and mother said it would be ready at 3:00 (give or take a few minutes). We checked on the bird at 3 and it was not done, we checked on it at 4:00, 4:30, 5:00, 5:30 and finally at 6:00 it was ready to eat. It gave us some extra time to have a few glasses of wine and good conversation about past Griswold Moments. LOL

Friday was fun, I made breakfast for everyone and we decided to drive out to show everyone the Lake Property that we are going to buy. So we packed into my brother in law’s Yukon and headed out on the 30 minute drive out in the country… way out in the country, I’m talking ‘Hills have eyes” out in the country. LOL

Everyone loved the property, the peace and quiet and the beautiful lake. We walked around and talked about the house we want to build there. Then we headed out on what seems to be our new family tradition on Turkey Day.. Bowling. LOL

Yep, we all love bowling on the WII, so we went to our local bowling alley and had some laughs while trying to bowl. It’s not as easy as it is on the WII. We bowled 2 full games and had a great time. I won both games with a whopping 97 on the first game and 126 on the second. As you can see, none of us are ready for the PBA.

After bowling we headed to our favorite Italian Restaurant for a nice dinner and wine. After dinner we headed back to my house for some relaxation and a movie. We watched one of our favorite movies, August Rush. If you haven’t seen it, it’s a great movie.

I love the holiday season and can’t wait until the week of Christmas for more family fun!

Happy Holidays,

Pat Lovell

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