Assignment 14 - Sarah Palmer

          My family is very small, I only have my parents, one cousin, and one set of grandparents in town. For thanksgiving this year we had a total of 6 people: my parents, my sister, and my grandparents. Sometimes we are very traditional, for example, on Christmas we always gather at my grandparents and play cards and eat our traditional snacks and Sister Schubert Rolls. However, no one in my family is very fond of the traditional thanksgiving meal. Instead we have steak and salad. This year I got the honor of grilling the steaks, which if I do say so myself, they were amazing. We then continued the festivities by playing Shanghai, a card game in which you get a different combination of books and runs every hand, for three hours. Three hours might seem like an extremely long time, but it goes surprisingly fast due to jokes, cake and making fun of how we play the game. I sadly got second to my sister, but I am hoping to redeem myself this year at Christmas.