Thanks Giving Weekend

I'm at work right now (actually that's a lie but when I wrote it in the first place I was :P) and bored a lot so I thought I might as well tell you guys about my last weekend which was Thanks Giving weekend.

On Saturday Seala picked me up at about 2:30pm and we went to the Hastings hosre track. I've never been to a horse track before so I was kind of excited about that. You only have to pay for the parkingbut you get vouchers for food and the with all the leaflet races, horses and statistics listed in exchange so that's ok. The entrance for the actual track is free. Seala explained a lot to me about how the whole thing works cause she likes to go there from time to time. So there is one part where the horses are shown around before a race so you can compare them and see which ones you like and which ones look like winner. And there is this comentator Mike who tells a little about every horse and then picks his fovorites. After that the horses go on the track with their jockeys and walk along for a second time so everyone can get a good look at them. And now comes the fun part: you can bet on the horses of your choice and the minimum amount is only $2 so you can bet just for fun and won't loose a lot of money. So there is this big screen where you can see how much money has been bet so far on ech of the horses on either "win"(that's pretty much selfexplainatory), "place"(means the horse either wins or finishes 2nd) or "show" (means the horse either wins or finishes 2md or 3rd). So we made our $2 bets on almost all the 5 races left and I actually won a little bit so that at the end it was pretty much evan. Seala had really good luck that day she won $11 on one of the bets =) We walked around there from the little place where you can see the horses and to the counters where you pay your wager and collect your won money and watched some of the races (the actual race only lasts for about 2 minutes but everyting around the race takes way longer) from the stand and some right next to the track which is a really great feeling when all the horses gallop past you and you can almost feel the ground shaking =)

After the last race Seala took me to her place which is just a couple of blocks away from me and we had Thanks Giving leftovers from the day before when she had a movie and sleepover night with her brother and niece. I had yum (which is a kind of potato but orange inside and it tastes aweet) and pumpkin pie for the first time ever. Really yummy!!! We hang out together for the evening talking and looking at an awesome book with horse pictures. I had a really good time and I felt great to just hang out with someone at their place and not being alone at home!
On sunday I covered for Michelle at work cause she couldn't do her shift... just a regular Coffee Shop shift pretty boring.
So monday the people at my place had their big Thanks Giving dinner so I decided I try and bake an apple pie. I've never made one before but I found a pretty easy recipe on the internet so I went to the mall to get some apples and butter and all the other stuff I already had. And I figured out what the problem with the oven was last time on my birthday: you have to preheat it so that those glowing grill kinda things don't glow any more so wheterver you put in won't burn on top! That's what I did and the result looked (and what we later discovered also tasted) AWESOME.

THE END lol

xoxo
Anna

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