Thanksgiving Break

Now that I'm feeling well enough and Thanksgiving break is over, let me try to recap:

Wednesday (11-22-06)
We ordered a ton of Chinese food at work for lunch and I of course ate too much. I left work a little early at about 3PM so I could get a head start on my drive to my parent's house in Derby (map).

My brother already had plans for us to go to Old Town in Wichita for a pub crawl with proceeds going to some charity for Lou Gehrig's Disease. The idea was to go to each bar and get a new playing card. The top 3 best Poker hands won some prize. We went to several bars: The Pump House (map), Heroes (map), Loft 150 (map), Kelly's Irish Pub (map), Club Indigo (map), and that's all I can remember (seems like there may have been one more). Ryan had a full house but everyone was cheating and the winning hand was 5 aces so he didn't win anything.

All went normal except for when we got back to Clint's. Let's just say Riz somehow got left behind in Old Town and fights and cops ensued.

Thursday (11-23-06)
Thanksgiving Day! It was a pretty laid back day. Even though we already had a ton of mashed potatoes, I decided that we needed cheesy potatoes so I whipped up a batch of those. We just played it low key with the immediate family + Grandpa Peters having Thanksgiving dinner at my parent's house. The food was really good and Grandpa stuck around and we played a few games of Pitch.

Friday (11-24-06)
Dad, Megan, Ryan, and I went and saw Borat. Wow! The movie was really funny. However, I could have definitely done without all of the male nudity. I think Dad, Ryan, and Megan would agree.

We watched KU beat Ball State on the parents' HD LCD. It was a pretty low-scoring-boring game and I was worried how we would face #1 Florida the next night. Oh well, at least we won.

Later that night, Ryan and I went over to Vinnie's girlfriend, Amy's place. Just hung out and played Battle of the Sexes. I can't remember who won but I know that I embarrassed myself by knowing one too many answers to female related trivial.

Saturday (11-25-06)
Rotating my tires on the P-Finder was way overdue, so Dad and I took care of this early Saturday morning. We also washed it along with Mom's car.

I took my brother and Grant to A J Sports Grill (map) to watch the highly anticipated KU vs. #1 Florida game. There was a ton of people there: Matt, Buddy, Don, Hannah, Hollie, Jordan, Romer, Jones, Marsh, Tina, Kelly and her friends, etc. (I'm sure I'm missing some people). This was a much more exciting game and went into OT where we won the game!!!!

After the game we ended up going to Mulligan's (map) and then to the Finn's for after hours.

Sunday (11-26-06)
I woke up early with my throat hurting like crazy. I thought it was because I was yelling so much when watching the game.

Grandma and Grandpa Kraus came over for brunch at 11:00AM. It was really good but I was interrupted by a customer who's production system was down. This took some time and I had to facilitate this for a couple hours of the early afternoon.

I left at around 2PM and picked up Grant to head back to Overland Park.

...Towards the end of the night, throat still hurting.

Monday (11-27-06)
Woke up absolutely miserable: throat hurting, cough, achy, argh! I went to work for about an hour and then had to leave. Spent the rest of the day resting and trying to get better.

Today (11-28-06)
Still trying to get better. Hopefully I'll be able to go to work tomorrow.