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I hope you all had a great Thanksgiving! I certainly did as I explored New Jersey holiday culture. Thankfully, we had a half-day of work on Wednesday, so I figured we'd beat the rush down to Jersey. However, apparently everyone in New York has a half-day before Thanksgiving, and this made our commute a little crazy. After waiting for a stalled subway and maneuvering through a sea of people at Penn Station, Alex and I met up, jumped aboard a double-decker train and stood in a packed car for the majority of the trip. That night the Foard's made lamb, though, so that made it all worth it.

On Thursday, we loaded up their Volvo full of food and headed to Morristown, NJ where we had a big suburban Thanksgiving with Alex's parents' best friends from grad school. They've been celebrating it with them for the last 30 years, and it was fun to have a big Thanksgiving (about 16 in total).

Colin and Susannah, Alex's twin and sister, respectively, didn't come home for the holiday, so it was just the 4 of us for the Foard Thanksgiving on Friday. The food was amazing, and I don't think I've ever eaten so much over a 3-day period.

I had a great time meeting his friends that were home and seeing all of his gang's hangouts.

Chris, Alex's dad, drove us back on Saturday morning with another load of his stuff. We spent most of Saturday having a much-needed day of movie therapy. My friend from high school, Cindy, was upstate for a few days prior to this and came down to spend two days at our place. We saw an awesome Bollywood movie at the Indian movie theatre down the street, and then on Sunday we did all kinds of New Yorky things like brunch, a play (I took her to see The Receptionist for free), and a little shopping down 5th Avenue.

I've decided to have a mini photo-shoot of our apartment tonight. So, I will post some pictures in a few hours. It's definitely not in a finished state yet, but when our budgets and schedules allow, we'll get a few more items (primarily a table and mirror for our humungo entrance hallway).