Thankful fest 2009
Everyone in Charlottesville used to leave town for Thanksgiving. It's one of those towns where no one is from -- so everyone has somewhere else to go.
During my time in Charlottesville I had somewhere better to be on Thanksgiving too -- I just didn't go. The appeal of "working" on the day after Thanksgiving was just too great to pass up in exchange for a 600+ mile drive home to frozen Indiana.
So those of us yupsters (yuppie hipsters) who stayed around created a modified non-familial version of the day: Thankful Fest. Here was a typical agenda during Thankful Fest's glorious 3 year run:
1. Wake up at 7am. Drive to Boar's Head.
2. Participate illegally in the Boar's Head Turkey Trot 5k. Be advised that race officials will not let unregistered runners cross the finish line. Protest nonviolently by eating free race bagels, donuts, juice and fruit in the race tent.
3. Drive to Harris Teeter. Buy frozen pizza.
For the next 6-8 hours:
4a. Eat the pizza. Watch football on TV.
4b. Or throw football outside.
5. For dinner: Chinese Buffet.
6. Find the saddest bar in town, filled with the most depressing people.
7. Drink Guinness.
Throwing the football really does fill the day. Especially when you're surrounded by friends who can invent games on the spot that become competitive immediately (see SkyRise Ball and Guava Ball). I don't remember the name, but we had a Hail Mary type game that lasted 2 Thankful Fests.
Hope all of you Americans have a great Thanksgiving. And I'll have a blessed Thursday.
3 comments:
the game was called 500 and it was glorious. i don't quite remember how points were calculated, but we played to 500 points. we were a bit simple.
yes, 500. that game was magical in the way that it made the hours fly by.
tell me more about SkyRise Ball and Guava Ball and I can tell you about Group-hug-soccer which goes down in history to date as the most fun impromptu game i've ever played... did we overlap at emu?
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