5.30am. Wednesday morning. Me and Heather got on a Megabus to start our journey to Kentucky to stay with Mikayla and her family. We got 4 buses in total but this is a good way to see the scenery of America I guess..
A good 11 hours later, we arrived in Bowling Green where Mikayla was waiting to meet us. In true Brits on Tour style we picked up a pizza on our way home. This is Mikayla's home, "out in the sticks", we were glad to have finally arrived but it's a lovely home and her mom was super welcoming.
Shortly after we had got home, we went to a friend of Mikayla's house to meet all of her high school friendship group and play games. This house was insane, so so pretty and again, the family were so welcoming to us. It was so lovely to meet everyone and just hang out. They had a giant cat and I spent most of the time talking to the younger brother- I've missed kids!
We were invited back any time to play in their field with their horse and their German shepherd puppy who we didn't see much of because it has to stay outside.
By the time we came to leave, it was snowing! We went straight to sleep
The next day we woke up to the scent of masses of delicious food, and from my experience now, this is what Thanksgiving is all about. The parade was on TV all morning and more family members arrived bringing with them yet another cute puppy.
Dinner was ready and it consisted of a lot of stuff I've never even seen before, but it all tasted incredible.
This proved quite a challenge to finish, but even so, a short while later we went back to eat Pumpkin pie..
After dinner, we played some board games with the family, monopoly then uno.
A bit later on, we all went over to Mikayla's dads house for our second Thanksgiving dinner of the day! We were greeted by Mikayla's jolly grandfather who reiterated several times how honoured he was to have us over for Thanksgiving. He even mentioned our visit in the prayer before dinner and I could have cried, so so sweet! Before too long, the next round of food was served.
I am so thankful we had somewhere to stay for our first ever Thanksgiving and that we got to spend it with some of the most genuinely lovely people I've ever met, they reminded me of my own family and treated me as if I was one of them and they had known me their whole life.
We sat round and played more games after dinner
We got a few family photos too which I'll put in when I get them but at around 9pm we decided to hit the mall for Black Friday shopping.
The gun section of the sports store..
We also got to go to Ulta, the dream
We got home at around 1am, bought a good few things I didn't need and went to bed content and still full.
Our first thanksgiving experience has been so special and I wish we could have stayed here longer. But it's the Eggbowl tomorrow, the biggest football game of the season and the last one I will get to see for a long time. We are going to tailgate hardddd!!!
Speak soon
Em x
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