This year for Thanksgiving Lauren and I piled into my Honda and attempted the drive down to Eugene to visit Mom. I knew it was going to be quite the long trip, because only two days earlier we had been hit with four inches of snow, which had subsequently melted and then turned to ice in the sub-teen temperatures. For some odd reason no one up here knows how to drive in bad weather, which is very ironic considering the weather is bad 350 days out of the year. Add that to the fact that the day before Thanksgiving is the busiest day of the year for traffic and the conclusion is that my car better be very comfortable. Lucky for us the maintenance light came on about 80 miles into our trip. Getting down to Oregon was the worst by far, taking the majority of the 8+ hours of driving. Once past the border, it wasn't bad at all. Of course we did stop at Burgerville on the way down, which has become a tradition for Lauren and I on our trips down south. Who can pass up the best fast food on earth?!
Mom made a great Thanksgiving dinner with everything one could eat. After eating to our hearts content we played Take 4 and Cribbage. Of course Mom won on the first game, and Lauren dominated Cribbage, leaving me to watch football in my defeat.
The following day it was off to the big game. #1 Oregon v. #24 Arizona. And what a game it was! All of us went shopping before the game to get our "spirit" on. We yelled and screamed for hours, which all payed off as Oregon ran away with a 48-29 romping.
