The Feast

For those of you who don't know, every year for Thanksgiving, instead of having a traditional Thanksgiving meal, we have a medieval feast....yes you read that right, a medieval feast. It's actual quite a big deal in our family, something that we spend all year preparing for. We dress up in costumes, use our hands to eat, rip the turkey legs right off of the bird the whole bit. Every year it gets more extravagant. Our family dresses up as the pirates of the group, we've got the swords, pistols, gold teeth, and the daggers. This year each family was to prepare a surprise for the night. I don't know how he managed to keep it from me but Stephen planned a treasure hunt for the family. We found a tattered note (the first clue) stabbed into a pillar with a knife and from there we were lead all around the neighbor hood in search for other clues, you can only imagine the looks we were getting from people as we passed them, in full costume with small torches in our hands. At the end we found the X that marked where the treasure we buried and everyone took turns digging to uncover the treasure. It was really fun.

After the hunt we had dinner. There was so much food you barley had a place to put your plate of food. My brother Blake and his wife were in charge of the rotisserie and they did and excellent job, I've never tasted roast so juicy, tender and all around delicious.

All these shots were taken of different parts of the table, Im not sure if that helps you get a better mental picture or not but there was A LOT of food!

After we stuffed our selfs full, the ball started. My sister Jodi and her husband taught everyone how to do the waltz! It was so fun although I have to admit, I am the worst dancer ever, poor Stephen! Unfortunatly I didn't get any picture of that with my camera, I was too busy tripping all over myself. We danced till our feet hurt so bad we couldn't walk anymore. Then we played a game of croquet that my cute little sister Paisly set up for everyone. It was a really fun night and Im already starting to plan for next year!

Wow that was a long post. Sorry.