would you like me to run to the store and buy you some manpons?

May I just start off with saying that this Thanksgiving Break was awesome!
Lets start off with Friday:
Ok.. Black Friday was pretty awesome. Except for the fact that I woke up at 4:30 to be ready and at Shannons at 6... or so i thought we would.
I was ready to go and then Kelsey says to me.. 'Lets get the key's and go'. I asked her if she knew where the keys were and she said.. 'uhh..... no :)' so we were searching the house for like 30 minutes looking for the keys and we still couldn't find them. Shannon by this time had told us that we could wait for them at the bank so it gave us more time to get the keys.
We eventually woke up Jay to ask if we could take the pilot.. and where were the keys??
In his pocket...
nice one guys :)
After that we followed Shannon and her mom to Flat Irons where there were barely any crowds (WIN!)
The sales, accoring to SHannon and Kelsey, weren't as good as they were last year. Throughout the three hours we were shopping (7-10) I had bought:
a sports bra
a t-shirt
a sweater
pajama pants
and some V.S.A. Perfume
so yeah. pretty much a win :)

At about 11:30 we all hit the road to go to Canon City (pronounced like canyon city) where Evan's Grandparents live.
We arrived there at about 2 p.m. and settled in and ate some Thanksgiving dinner (the second day in a row) After the dinner (which was delicious) we put our stuff in our rooms and made our way to a cute little store called 'the Ruby Slipper'. It was very cute and I scored a sweater, a beanie, and $2 leather gloves.... everyone also scored....
UGLY CHRISTMAS SWEATERS.
later that evening, Evan, Abby, Kelsey, and I all decided to go and see a movie WEARING those sweaters. It was a pretty good movie and we were turning heads in those sweaters...
not sure if it was in a good way though...=/

SATURDAY:
we woke up and went to Stanley, which is the Hammers complex in Canon City in which they're working on. It's a cute little set up but we still have a lot of work to do.
I met the neighbours and then we (and by we i mean Abby, Evan, Mom, and I) all drove to the Royal Gorge where we met up with Evan's friend Ben, we rode the rail thing across the gorge. and walked back across the bridge. It was loads of fun and I appreciate CHarissa taking us there :)
After that we went back to Stanley and stayed there a bit and then drove back to Grandma's and Grandpa's house for the night.

SUNDAY:
Today i woke EARLY because I wanted to drive the Tractor before I left.
So Abby, Jay, and I left Grandma's and Grandpa's at 9 a.m. so we could visit Maggie (someone who rents from the Hammers at the Stanley Complex) and so we could drive the tractor and lawn mower in their Stanley backyard. It was really cool! I gotta say, its a good way to practise steering, breaking, and gears. It was really fun.
After Abby had ridden the tractor (after me) for about 5 minutes the tractor ran out of gas. So Jay hooked the tractor up to the lawn mower and i towed the tractor to a ramp. After that Jay towed the tractor with the Pilot to the Garage.
It was really fun though :) I will take pictures next time and put them on Facebook :)
We drove home after that which was fun... I slept for most of it.

After we got home... Abby said the best quote of my life.
'would you like me to go to the store and buy you some manpons?'
i seriously lol'd for about five minutes.
funniest stuff :)

so yeah..... all in all I had a GREAT time and did a lot of new things :)
I love life and i have basically just one more month to go on this brilliant adventure and I wish I had more time!
Its going to be great to see my family and friends, but its going to be sad to leave the family that I have become a part of and the (hopefully) long life friends that I have made over here.

until next time,
peace out!
brianna.
xx