Jared and I were able to fly down to Arizona to spend time with his family during Thanksgiving break....nothing like that 72 degree weather all week long. The trip up to the Salt Lake airport was quite the journey to say the least. We decided to take nothing less than the good old public transportation up there. That's right....2 and a half hours of bus then trax then bus again. I knew I was in for a treat when this was the first thing I saw on the bus...
It was an interesting experience and probably wouldn't want to do it again :) After we got to Arizona it was smooth sailing. There was a TON of wii...hours upon hours of wii. I'm pretty sure my right arm is still aching from the sword fighting.
I'm pretty sure Jared's mom kicked our TRASH at the sword fighting every single time....I still don't understand how she did it. She took on 3 marines.....still kicked their trash. There was no stopping her.
Of course Thanksgiving Day was filled with tons and tons of food and we were lucky to have two of Dallas's marine buddies spend the day with us. Jared was kind enough to go Black Friday shopping with me at midnight! It was his first time doing it and I'm pretty sure he never wants to do it again :) On Saturday we headed down to Tucson to spend some time with the extended Tate family. It was great to see everyone again.
Our Thanksgiving was CONSUMED with sports....but I guess that's what you get when you marry into a family of all boys right? Volleyball....football...basketball (A LOT of Basketball)....ping pong. The sports were never ending. It's a good thing I like them so much and hey, I got my fill of Black Friday shopping so I was happy.
To cap off the whole trip we ended up at the beloved Ostrich farm. That place was smart to start you out slow....we started out feeding the donkeys. Those things did absolutely nothing. They ate maybe one pellet of food we gave them.
Then we headed on to the deers. Those things were a little more pushy...poking their heads through the gate. You can see I wasn't too fond of the whole idea....
Then we moved on to the goats....those things were feisty.
And then we moved on to the dreaded ostriches. Those things were deadly...no joke. Look at that thing just peering over the wall....You could already tell it had something up it's sleeve....if it had sleeves...
They would peck SOOO fast at our cup. I tried to throw a few pellets at them from my cup and ended up throwing my whole cup. Here's a little video of Jared. It's not every day that you get bit by an ostrich.
After the ostriches we moved on to the bird cage. I unfortunately did not take any pictures of this place because I was SWARMED with birds. They give you a cup of nectar and those dang birds literally ripped the cap off the cup of my nectar and started landing on me. All I have to say is I didn't realize how much I don't like birds. I hated every second of it. There was a good mixture of tears and laughter. I'm grateful for my in-laws and for them putting up with through that whole ostrich farm.
Overall it was an awesome trip. Jared and I had so much fun and it was great to spend more time with my in-laws. Happy Thanksgiving everyone. Now it's time to set up for Christmas!
