(Header picture taken down the parade line just before the start of the parade. At least it looks like Christmas, right?
Wow! What a weekend! That definitely goes into the books as one of the crazier Thanksgiving weekends I’ve had in a while. First off, the Extra Life stream went amazingly well. I blew threw my goal and broke my personal best, raising over $200 for my local childrens’ hospital. Huge success!
By the time I finished, though, I’d been up for thirty-eight hours straight. That was definitely enough for me, so I went to bed shortly thereafter. Usually after a 24-hour gaming binge like that, I’ll sleep for ten or more hours, but in this case, I needed to be up to go shopping with Adventure Girl. It’s a Thanksgiving tradition, what can I say?
So despite the both of us still being pretty tired from our respective gaming binges, out we went to face the crowds, just a bit later than normal at 0830. Given that we’re also working through the Ramsey Baby Steps, I didn’t end up spending a lot. In fact, Adventure Girl outspent me by quite a bit. But hey, she’s debt free and can do what she wants with her allowance money that she’s been saving.
We had to put a hard stop time on the shopping fun though, because for the evening, Adventure Girl and I were helping with our local Christmas Lights parade. Specifically, we were putting on our CAP working uniforms and helping with parade safety patrol – basically just making sure people don’t get their toes run over by a float, help lost children, that sort of thing. It was a lot of walking on a cold, snowy night. Between the shopping and the parade, my step counter registered over 18,000 steps for the day!
