Thanksgiving vaction

I hope everyone had a wonderful thanksgiving and you all didn't eat to much (hehe wishful thinking). My family and I traveled from our little home in Mississippi to the children's grandparents house in Beaumont, TX and feasted with some of the best people on earth. I have never seen so much food in all my life and it was all good!! You guys know I'm not going to turn down good food no matter what.

We left on Wednesday early in the morning and drove straight thru 8 hours across some bridges that made my knuckles turn white because they were so high up in the air. Most bridges don't bother me but this one scared the you know what out of me. We arrived there about 3:00 Wednesday afternoon ready to eat. Jessie had made her homemade burritos and boy they were good. Then of course Thursday was thanksgiving. Besides all the food the wine was flowing like a river around there. It was really warm out like almost 80 degrees and the wine and the heat wasn't mixing with me really well so I went in the house and cooled off watching a really cool program. Later after it had cooled off outside I went back out and joined everyone again talking and drinking more wine. By this time a couple of others showed up, Jessie's niece and her children, who by the way I have heard about since I was pregnant with Cody. I finally got to meet her after all these years. She is so sweet. So, Jessie's sisters and niece and myself all sat around and drank wine. We laughed and giggled so much that we all hurt. I haven't had that much fun in a long while.
Friday we went to the mall and later that evening we went out to eat together. Saturday morning was the day that we were suppose to drive back home, so I get all the kids up and start taking showers and getting everything together. I look up and I have my kids standing around me crying begging me to talk to daddy about staying another day. They didn't want to leave their grandpa so then they got me to crying along with them. I talked to Gary and we decided to stay another day. I am very glad we did. Gary decided to make crab burgers for everyone so Jessie and I went to the local grocery store. This was the biggest grocery store I have ever been in so big in fact that Gary and I went back just to look around and see what we could see.
Gary cooked the crab burgers and Grandpa Billy cooked the JoJo fries and we all sat down and ate together. Sunday it was time to go home and the tears started up again. The kids and I could barely get thru hugging Grandpa and Grandma. We all had such a good time and really love them both.
Billy is the only link that the kids have to their real fathers side of the family. Their real dad has a drug problem and lives on the street. The only time they see him is if we are riding down the street and hes out walking or panhandling. Yes I know this is sad but he chose his path. I think it is very important that the kids have a relationship with their grandfather to know about their background. And Billy is the only grandfather that they have ever known.
We had a great time and look forward to the time that we can go again, hopefully sometime in the Spring.