Our Thanksgiving weekend was an interesting one. For Thanksgiving it was just our little family. While cooking the turkey, I heard a popping noise upstairs and saw fire in our oven. I called for Kevin and threw open the oven door. The element in the bottom of the stove burnt out, and a piece of it broke off. We continued to cook our turkey and took it out at the appointed time to find out that only half of it was cooked. So we found some parts that were cooked really well (we used 3 different thermometers) cut those off and stuck the turkey back in for 4 more hours. Suffice it to say I'm glad we weren't having company.
Friday morning we woke up and during the course of the day realized our garbage disposal wasn't working.
On Saturday Kevin went to Home Depot to find out how to fix the garbage disposal, and his car broke down. On all this we were averaging about 4 hours of sleep, because Isaac was not sleeping well and he kept waking up the other kids.
Saturday night we went to the SLC Temple to see the Christmas lights...we heavily debated going because we weren't sure if an asteroid would fall on us or something, but we decided to go and meet Melinda and her family there. Kevin was excited because there is a restaurant in Salt Lake City that he has really wanted to go to, and we don't get up to SLC very often. We left Temple Square at 8:15 and called the restaurant and they still had an hour wait, so instead of the Red Iguana we went to The Mayan. Kevin was extremely disappointed.
The food at the Mayan isn't great but it makes up for it in atmosphere. It has a Disney like quality where you actually feel like you are in the Jungle. They are several different shows with cliff divers in the restaurant. The kids loved it and it was a good end to the weekend.
Everything works now and I have so much to be thankful for that it is hard to complain, but it makes a good story and a Thanksgiving to remember.
Dinner at the Mayan with. The Cliffs are in the background. There are giant trees, and fake birds. There is constant "jungle" sounds the whole time. Haley talks about this dinner all the time and wants to go back.
2 comments:
That picture of Haley at the top is adorable.
I have always heard of the Mayan but have never been there. Kind of sounds like the Rainforest cafe..crappy food but cool place.
Wow, so sorry about your turkey! Glad your Thanksgiving turned out alright after all. Sounds like an adventure. :)
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