Mexican restaurant + pizza+ milkshake + massage + art room buffet = one of a kind Thanksgiving!

This Thanksgiving was definitely different than any other Thanksgiving I have ever experienced.  In fact, it was hard for me to even remember it was Thanksgiving (I was skyping a friend earlier that week and was puzzled at why she was going to her parents house on Thursday and Friday (why take those two days off and not just wait for the weekend).  Then it hit me - it's Thanksgiving!).  

Anyway, we had school on Thursday but in the evening I went with my two friends Lauren and Sarah to Que Pasa, a Mexican restaurant that has pretty much any kind of food you could want.  Even though they are a Mexican restaurant they make really good pizza!  So I got pizza and a milkshake to celebrate Thanksgiving.  My friends, being the wonderful elementary teachers that they are, even made and wore Thanksgiving attire - a pilgrim hat and an Indian headdress.  We definitely got some weird looks from the waitresses but it was fun.  Our school administrators/bosses also showed up at the restaurant and paid for our meal without telling us (we only found out when we tried to pay and the waitresses were laughing and telling us it was free!).  We felt really blessed and it made me want to be better about doing random acts of kindness - it certainly makes an impact and blesses others!

After dinner we went and got massages, which one of my friends back home said we should incorporate into Thanksgivings in America.  I agree - they are a great way to relax and they certainly make you thankful!  

On Friday there was a teacher workday, so no kids, but we still came to school to work.  We ended up decorating the school for Christmas (more on that in my next post).  After working during the day, all the teachers and their families gathered in my art room for a big Thanksgiving feast.  We each brought a dish to share and gathered around my tables and chairs to share a Thanksgiving meal together.  It was a really nice time of fellowship and yummy traditional Thanksgiving food.  Not quite the homey setting I'm used to but I tried to remove the paint and crayon smell as much as possible :)

Hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving as well :)