We had such a nice long Thanksgiving break this year. On Tuesday, I drove to the movie theater right after work to meet up with these three to see Wicked:
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| Ellie, Eamon, Galinda, Elphaba, Maggie |
The movie was 3 hours long (including previews) and would go through dinner, so we had to eat and I snuck my pastrami sub from Jersey Mike's into the theater and devoured it during the previews. I just love a nice hot pastrami and wish I lived near an authentic Jewish New York deli.
Wicked was SO GOOD. The rest of the family wants to see it when it comes out on some streaming service, and besides the scene in the beginning when Elphaba's mom steps out on her dad (I can just imagine innocent Declan asking "But why is she hugging that man that's not her husband?" so we will fast forward that part) the rest is great. We've been listening to the music non-stop and can't wait for Part Two. I have seen the play and read the book (I don't recommend the book) and the movie had a much more clear storyline and entertaining scenes and was cinematically beautiful and powerful.
On Thanksgiving morning, we woke up at 7am and ran our own family Turkey Trot:
Maggie was fretting that we would look like weirdos running together, but not to worry as we all run at different speeds and distances anywhere between 2.25 and 4 miles. One of us walked the dog instead of running, which was a necessary task since she would be alone the rest of the day and it would be rainy all day.
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| Maggie and Brendan were running buddies |
We got this text from Andrew, who had run in the school's Turkey Trot in Austria:
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| Andrew and Smiles |
Then he played in a football game for two hours before dressing up in Austrian garb and having an American Thanksgiving with the faculty and staff. I guess the mayor from the town was there too and there was music and dancing and so much merriment.
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| Pinkies up! |
Back in America, we all showered and went to 9am Mass to start Thanksgiving Day off right. We have so much to be thankful for including JP's 1st med school acceptance!! He got into a new DO school opening in Maryland, close to Phil's side of the family and his girlfriend's family and one he was really hoping to get into. He had the interview about two weeks ago and got the acceptance news this week which is a huge stress reliever. He's not 100% sure this is where he will attend, but at least he has one option thus far. I have to admit, I kinda feel like *I* got into medical school with how much I guided and supported him through the application process ;)
