Ever notice how on sitcoms about a group of friends, they
are always together for the holidays? Throughout the shows we always get to
meet the characters’ family members but are we to believe these people just don’t
make the effort to go home for the holidays, ever? In How I Met Your Mother it
is more believable, as a few of the characters are from different parts of the
country (and Canada) but what about in Friends?
We know their families just live in Queens and Long Island. They always seem like they are having so much
fun hanging out with their friends at the holidays. I enjoy going home to see my family a lot at
the holidays, but I decided I am jealous of those sitcoms and I want to have Thanksgiving
with my friends. That is why this year I
decided to host our inaugural Friendsgiving.
The idea was pretty simple; we had friends over for a full
Thanksgiving meal. Ryan was excited to
make his own turkey, and people brought mashed potatoes & gravy, green bean
casserole, pumpkin pies, stuffing and deviled eggs. There were nine of us total, which is a
little bit tight for our little house – but I am pretty creative when it comes
to these things. I brought in our beer
pong table and set it up with all of the patio chairs in the kitchen and moved
our kitchen two-top to the living room behind the couch. The kitchen could seat six and the other
table two, so I figured I would just do what I do half the time anyway and eat
standing up at the breakfast bar. Ryan did not think it was very classy to have
people sit on the patio furniture, but what the hell do I care. People sit on it when it’s outside, what’s
the difference? I didn’t end up having to stand though because
the guys gathered in the room with football on.
All four of the guys crowded around our little two-top bar table so they
could eat and watch.
It is hard to put a measure on how much wine I drank because
we were all sharing multiple bottles, but if I had to guess I would say 2.5 in
total…thankfully there was plenty of food to soak it up J
