Once again we received our smoked turkey from Theurer's Quality Meats and it was perfect. From the moment we opened the box we could smell it's smoky goodness. This, above all other packages, is our favorite surprise that comes in the mail. It is a tradition in our family to always have smoked turkey and I can honestly say it wouldn't feel like Thanksgiving without it. Once you've had it smoked, you can never go back. So thank you mom and dad, for making our Thanksgiving Day complete - we've been eating smoked turkey sandwiches all week.
Because Thanksgiving was a week later this year and Jason's finals are a week earlier, he has been feeling the weight of finals a little bit earlier this year. So we decided to take it easy and have a nice, relaxing Thanksgiving together. I start to feel a little neglected this time of the year so it was so nice to have him all to myself for once. I know I'm a sell out, but this year we changed things up a bit and went to a restaurant for the big meal. It was so nice not to have to plan out a menu and stress over the details. I did, however, make a few of the traditional items that you just have to have and we enjoyed them all weekend long.
For dinner we went to Sarabeth's at Central Park South. It was wonderful and they had everything a traditional meal would have, so we didn't miss anything. Because we were right by the park we decided to take advantage of our time and see a little more of the park. It is amazing that I have lived here for 2 1/2 years and I still see something new each time I go. We have never been on a carriage ride through the park and we usually try to avoid the tourist traps (because heaven forbid someone mistake us for a tourist) but I enjoyed our relaxing trip and thankfully our horse didn't have Beefarino on his Thanksgiving menu (Seinfeld joke).
After dinner we went to Four Christmases and then headed home to watch our classic Christmas favorites - Christmas Vacation and Home Alone. Although I missed seeing family it was nice to have a day with just the two of us. My favorite thing of all the many NYC things I love, is to simply walk around the city seeing all the amazing sites while holding hands and it was so nice to be able to take time to reflect and remember all that we are thankful for in this amazing city.
