Thanksgiving, and all that Stuff

We had a really good Thanksgiving this year. We started the day with the run in Draper, and rather than driving all the way back up to Riverdale just to turn around and go to North Salt Lake, we spent the morning and early afternoon at Matt's grandparent's house. We watched the parade and the football games, and tried out best at making the sweet potatoes.



The sweet potatos may have been a mistake. I have never really made them, so I had no idea what I was doing. I bought a bunch of potatos, then looked up online for a recipe. I found an easy one, but it asked for the canned stuff. So I figured I could make it work with mine if I just mashed them good enough. I guess here is where I made my mistake, because I boiled the potatos to make them soft, and soft they got. They were pretty runny when we were done. Still super yummy, but runny. We actually baked them a second time after thanksgiving, and it made for better leftovers.



But we took our runny potatos to my sister's house for dinner. It was great. My brother in law had made a great turkey and we had all sorts of pies. We all ate until we couldn't move anymore. I will say that the relaxing after dinner nap was a little harder to get with our cute neice and nephew wanting to play with us, but we are all lucky they have Uncle Matt who was happy to skip most of his nap and go downstairs to play with them, and teach them a new magic trick.



We had a really great Thanksgiving this year. Of course I didn't take one picture! I know, slacker. But it was great!

Turkey Trot

On Thanksgiving morning Matt and I participated in the Human Race Turkey Trot in Draper. Matt's sister Becky invited us to do the race with her and we had so much fun. We got up WAY too early for a holiday and drove out to the outlets in Draper to meet Becky. She was great and had picked up our race packets for us the day before. It was a cheap race to join ($10) and all the money went to the Utah Food Bank. Awesome. So we met her at before the race and lined ourselves up near the back of the pack - since we knew we were not going to break any records during the race.

It may have been a mistake to line up so far back because we spent the first 10 minutes or so dodging small kids and strollers. But it soon thinned out and we were able to just do our thing. I am slowly working on transitioning from only walking to being a wogger (walking/jogging). So Matt was great and stayed back with me. We did intervals of running 5 minutes and walking 2. We finished in just under 39 minutes (awesome for us!) and even better than that, we had a really good time. This may become a Clark tradition.

On the night before Thanksgiving, Matt, my sister Val, and I went to see the Trans-Siberian Orchestra concert in Salt Lake. I have been listening to the TSO Christmas music for a few years, but had never been to a concert. It seems they always come to SLC in November, and I don't think to look into it until they have already come and gone. I lucked out this year and remembered to look before they came! I was pretty excited when they were playing on a day that was essentially a weekend - because I had the next day off of work.

The concert was great. They have a ton of special effects like lasers and cool lights. It was a great show!

The show was a little different than this clip because they have added video screens and stuff, but this gives you the idea. Enjoy!