My typical Thanksgiving involves meeting with my family and going hiking. We leave in the morning and hike near the Simon Canyon Ruin. After we finish everyone goes home to clean up and get ready to eat. We meet at grandparent’s house and eat all the food there. Many times there are competitions to see who can eat the most ham, turkey, rolls, and so on. We all usually stay and watch the football game while eating all sorts of pie. The pies range from chocolate pie to the traditional pumpkin pie. Every year was the same for Thanksgiving, until now. The year of 2016 was an exception to my typical Thanksgiving. On November 17, 2016, my great grandma, Edith Morgan, passed away. She lived for about 97 and a half years. Her funeral was held the day before Thanksgiving and everyone was
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It was a boughten pie from Sam’s Club, and not to mention completely mushy. I can easily say that I missed having home-made pies for Thanksgiving. Then, my grandparents left and I made cinnamon rolls. I made cinnamon rolls because we used to always make cinnamon rolls the day before Thanksgiving. Then, on Thanksgiving morning we would eat cinnamon rolls before we went hiking. My favorite part of Thanksgiving is the always the hike. The day after Thanksgiving this year, I went hiking with my uncle. We went hiking because he knows that’s my favorite part about Thanksgiving. Instead of doing our normal hike we decided to do a detour. The detour took an extra hour or so. On the way back to the truck, we walked through a canyon. The canyon had a small amount of water in it and was very hard to walk through. There was hidden sinkholes all over and at one point I sunk down past my knees. When we finally made it back to the truck, we were covered in mud and very tired, but it was a great hike. In the end, it was a very different Thanksgiving. It was something I was not used to, but it made me thankful for our regular, typical
It was a boughten pie from Sam’s Club, and not to mention completely mushy. I can easily say that I missed having home-made pies for Thanksgiving. Then, my grandparents left and I made cinnamon rolls. I made cinnamon rolls because we used to always make cinnamon rolls the day before Thanksgiving. Then, on Thanksgiving morning we would eat cinnamon rolls before we went hiking. My favorite part of Thanksgiving is the always the hike. The day after Thanksgiving this year, I went hiking with my uncle. We went hiking because he knows that’s my favorite part about Thanksgiving. Instead of doing our normal hike we decided to do a detour. The detour took an extra hour or so. On the way back to the truck, we walked through a canyon. The canyon had a small amount of water in it and was very hard to walk through. There was hidden sinkholes all over and at one point I sunk down past my knees. When we finally made it back to the truck, we were covered in mud and very tired, but it was a great hike. In the end, it was a very different Thanksgiving. It was something I was not used to, but it made me thankful for our regular, typical