Thanksgiving Trip

Happy Thanksgiving! Thank you, internet, for letting us post pictures and stuff. 

This giant cookie covered in frosting was brought to our Thanksgiving day, and during the next few days we almost single-handedly ate the entire thing. Part of me wanted to gobble the whole thing down right away but I'm glad we made it last longer.

Indulge in more pictures? Click on the "Read more" below.

The day we were going to leave to travel, we managed to give Turbo a little Thanksgiving feast, too. So that cheered us up a bunch.

This picture is a little embarrassing to show, but we thought we had to post it because it's too crazy not to. On the trip we usually stop by a Wal-Mart or two, and check out the crane games. Well this is about as lucky as you can get. Already in the claw right above the drop?

So of course we try for the free reindeer but with only 20 seconds to wiggle it loose, it looked like the tag was wrapped around the hook, and it was going to be impossible to drop it. With only a few seconds left we move the claw away from the drop and before we knew it, it placed the poor little plushie over there. So yeah, total fail.

Not in New Jersey, not in Delaware, not in Maryland. Not until we get to Virginia at 9:45pm did we finally get to a McDonald's that had... The McRib. I think my friend is a little too excited about this but I guess it's a big deal for him.

Um, YES we will sit at the table with the glowing color-changing circles on it. 

The thing is, you have to ask for the McRib with Extra Sauce. Because it's got to be the messiest thing ever. And you're going to want to dip your fries in the spilled-out sauce.

Oh yeah, Thanksgiving Turkey is what it's all about! Thanks to the retail world being what it is, we had this for lunch. Then everypony went to work or out shopping. We wound up having another McRib for dinner on Thanksgiving, so while that might sound sad my friend thought it was awesome.

Only I didn't say "Fudge." Thanksgiving Day is not even over and here comes the Xmas shopping!

Dave & Busters has these giant Rock 'em Sock 'em Robots. This is the modern day version of those renaissance rich nobleman with the giant chess piece gardens?

It's one of those coin-drop-sliding-shelf games but there's Star Trek cards? What would Spock say? Fascinating. My 'Trek-nerd friend wants to point out that they don't use money in Star Trek.

2500 Bonus Tickets for a full set. I wonder if they have Tribbles in the exchange shop?

Thanksgiving leftovers for lunch the next day. Is this the evolution of the holiday? Lunch?

More shopping, we wander into Hobbytown and see this awesome mecha model in the display case and all of a sudden we kind of want to do one of these ourselves.

More display cases in the back to encourage us. I wonder if they know how effective this is? Because it looks pretty cool.

We didn't find one to get, but here's a funny model with no obvious innuendos at all. It's just an anime girl sitting on a pink cannon. And a "Congrats!" banner in the cannon?

On another night we went to a recommended new-ish fast food place called Cook Out. The burger really looks and tastes just like it was cooked in Your Backyard, Anywhere, USA. Those are hush puppies in the fries.

Upgrade your soda to a milkshake for $1? Um, yes please! Looking over the list of milkshake flavors... Mint Chocolate Chip! It was so thick, the straw just wasn't hacking it, we had to switch to a spoon. Awesome it's a giant cup of ice cream.

There was a large raccoon helping us out with some Thanksgiving leftovers several days after the holiday. We took so many pictures to get one where you can kind of see the raccoon.

We wandered into the backyard to check out this enormous tree branch that crushed the fence gate. Yes technically that's a branch but it looks like a whole tree itself. It was growing vertically like a separate tree on another tree but I guess it finally got too big for it's own good.

A recent storm blew down a bunch of trees. This picture doesn't quite capture the dull-ness of the colors here but have you've seen The Walking Dead and the characters get turned into zombies and they change to like grey-toned skin and clothes for no reason? This was the tree version of that.

 Mega thorn stick just growing out of the ground? Just looking at this thing hurts a little.

 Ah, Fuddruckers. They have burgers, and fries to go with these japaenos and cheese sauce. But we just come here mostly for this.

One more McRib on the ride back north. We thought about having a McRib each day we were in Virginia but it didn't quite work out that way. We had a lot of them though.

No glowing-lights-table in this McDonald's but did somepony carve the Amazon logo into this table? That's some aggressive advertising strategy there.