This is a wonderful Thanksgiving. This Thanksgiving has been
very insular with our family and close friends involved in what amounts to
three days of eating and praising God for his blessings to us. Our Thanksgiving
really lasts three days. Day one was at my Mom’s house with Mom, her friend
Bonnie, My brother, Bob, and his family and my family. This is a day of
recapping the year for us, enjoying everyone being together for one of only a
couple of days that we are all together during the year.
Today was the second day of Thanksgiving, a much larger,
louder celebration at my Mother-in-law and Father-in-law’s house. There’s a
bunch of us and we are together quite often. The gathering is growing larger
with Brad’s wife Sherry now part of the family, Caylyn’s fiancé Allen and my
son Matt’s girlfriend, Leslie. That’s eighteen for Thanksgiving Dinner and boy
do we truck in the food. My son is hopped up on stuffing this year and I think
he ate at least a pound or two of stuffing.
Tomorrow is day three of our festivities and the smallest
celebration of the season: myself, Deana, Allison, Matt, my nephew Ben and
Matt’s girlfriend, Leslie. In years gone by we have spent Black Friday doing
what other American’s will be doing tomorrow, shopping. But Black Friday has gone
horribly wrong and this year we are not participating. Black Friday used to be
getting up about 4 AM, going through the drive through for a hot breakfast
biscuit and hitting the stores starting at 6 AM and finding cool stuff. Not any
more. If you fall into the trap that the stores are setting you will not spend
any time with your family, you will spend all of Thanksgiving shopping for
Christmas. Christmas is the second greatest holiday of the year, after Easter,
but not at the expense of Thanksgiving. I wish all the stores and shoppers well
but I refuse to surrender my family time to save a couple of bucks on something
I probably didn’t really want.
Why go to Disney today?
On this date in 1863, a patent was granted for a process of
making color photographs. Wow, I didn’t realize that there was a way to take a
color photograph that long ago. Go to Walt Disney World and take some pictures,
or use a PhotoPass photographer, they are really good and know how to get the
pictures you want. The ultimate is probably to get a ride picture, especially a
well-posed ride picture. If you don’t already know, ride the rides enough to
learn where they take your picture, get a group together and agree on a pose
for your ride pic. PhotoPass+ lost our best one, a picture on the Tower of
Terror. I even had a receipt. Oh, well.
1887: Boris Karloff. Karloff is more associated with another
Orlando citizen that features the young wizard with the interesting scar on his
forehead. Now that does not mean that there is no connection with Walt Disney
World. Karloff made a little cartoon you may have heard of, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Karloff
is the narrator but when the Grinch sings, another great voice takes over, Thurl
Ravenscroft. Thurl had the greatest voice in recorded history, I’m not kidding.
He was the voice of Tony the Tiger, he sang the Grinch’s song, he sings in the
Haunted Mansion, his voice is in Pirates of the Caribbean, he is the voice of
Fritz in the Tiki Room. Karloff had a great voice and portrayed some of my
favorite creepy characters, so why not tribute them both and ride the Haunted
Mansion today?
Remember, your best excuse is always: waiting for your
dreams to come true.
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