Thanksgiving and Black Friday Madness

Day 105 in Kansas and I am thankful.

I'm not going to give you a long boring list of all the things I'm thankful for though, don't worry. (Also I'm not sure if these blog posts have a limit)

But, I will say this: 

There are times, we 1st world people get to experience, where there is so much good food, that you never want to stop, but eventually you just have to. Thanksgiving was such a moment for me. 

I spent it with a friend from my English class (Samantha), and me, her and her family went to another family's house. We had an amazing dinner, we watched a movie, and there were delicious desserts. (Yes, that's plural) 

I had a really good time, everyone was super nice and welcoming, and I am really glad my first thanksgiving ever was like this. 

And because some people have asked, I even took a few pictures of the meal and the table:  

 

So, the picture of my plate might not look that good, but it was delicious! And the two other pictures are a hasbrown-thingy with loads of cheese, and behind it the stuffing (that's the middle picture of the three small ones) and right next to it is a green-bean-onion-thingy. Those were my three favorite parts of the meal, but boy, all of it was delicious! 

Anyways, around 9pm I came home, but there was lots more to do! 

Because after thanksgiving, there is a thing called "Black Friday" 

Now, "What is this?", non-American people might ask. 

Well, Black Friday is a thing that actually starts on Thanksgiving-Thursday around 5 pm and ends the next day, Friday, around 1 pm. 

During this time, all kinds of stores have all kinds of crazy discounts, and all kinds of people do all kinds of shopping. I also heard that a lot of people go crazy on that day and get rude or whatever, but I didn't encounter anything like it. I'm not sure if I'm just lucky, or people were exaggerating... I guess I will have to come back next year to find out... (jk I wish)

Anyways, to get the full on american experience, I participated in this event too: 

And because we wanted to get the best of it, my hostsister, a couple of her friends, and me, went shopping on black friday, on thursday. 

Now, while I was still stuffing myself with turkey, they already started, so I came to the party a bit late, but I still got awesome stuff. (I bought a pair of boots, some socks, and two sweaters. hooray) We went to several different stores, spent a lot of time (especially in queues/lines) and today I am absolutely exhausted. 

I joined the shopping-party around 9.30 pm, and around 1.20 am I went to bed. The next day, Friday, I got up around 6.15 am and we continued the shopping until around 1.00 pm. 

And of course, I have some pictures! YAYYY

Okay, you can't really see it on the first picture, but the queue there was insane. It went in a huge circle around half of the shop. That car is full of the stuff we bought, and that was just round one on Thursday night. The second picture shows the crazy sales – right there were 75% off. (That was a really good deal though and not really found again... But still) 

I hope you enjoyed this, I'll keep you posted!  

Hugs, Anna