I got to go home for Thanksgiving this year... first time in the last 4 years! My aunt Cindy helped me get back without any one else knowing, so I showed up at midnight and woke my parents up to the obnoxious ring of the cell phone so they could let me in the door. Shelli had bet me that my mother would cry, a bet i took... Bad move,,, she won. I got to spend a day with my uncle Will fishing for crappie at High Rock lake. It was friggin freezing, but we still caught some fish. We kept the big ones and fed the little ones to Skeeter,,, this is Skeeter. Once my brothers got to hang out. Hanging out with my brothers was great, cause it was the first time we have hung out since they decided to become cut-off-jean-wearin hippies. Before our big family meal on Thursday, we decided to do something hippie and go climb on some rocks. So we did a little bouldering down near Lake Lure, or rather, they did some bouldering, i did some falling. It seems that gravity has a slightly stronger hold on me than on them. Anyway, then we headed back for our GIANT meal with the fam. After the meal (and adding a bit more to gravities hold on me) we decided head out for a nice late afternoon nature waddle. So my brothers, erika, john, kim, christian, and myself headed out for Bradley Falls. We had a good time, Kim did her first bit of climbing, we took some pics, and headed home. Saturday night, as I was packing to leave, we decided to attempt to take a family photo for a christmas card. It took a lot of shots before we got a good one, but we did eventually get a winner. It was a great holiday, and i can't wait for the next one.