The First Holiday Away From Home

So this year has flown by.  Today is already Thanksgiving!  Due to the fact that I wasn't able to fly home and be with my family for the holiday, I was going to drive up to Detroit and see an NFL game there but I couldn't get any good tickets on Ebay, so that fell through.  The family of one of the other managers up here had signed up to run a 5K race today, so I tagged along.  This was the first real exercise that I have gotten since I have been up here and oddly enough I miss running.  I ended up going over and had Thanksgiving dinner with them and watched some of the NFL games over there.  Once again, I am really surprised with how friendly and welcoming everyone has been up here!

The Boys Night Out

Had the day off today, so instead of being productive, I spent the day trying to organize the thousands of photos that I have jumbled around my hard drive.  Finally by the afternoon, I wrestled up enough motivation to mess around with my camera and tried to create another "Self-Portrait."  Then went and met up with some of the guys from work for poker night.  Three more nights until Thanksgiving... came up quick this year!

The Country

One of the best parts about being up here is how much land there is.  If you wanted to go shooting in Arizona you would have to drive out and find a vacant area out in the desert, apparently up here you can just go out to your backyard.

The Child in Me

I don't think I will ever grow up!

The Irish

I was able to cross another item off of my bucket list.  I wanted to see a Notre Dame football game while I was up here.  This was the last home game they had this season and it was against Wake Forest. It made it even more exciting because this year Notre Dame is doing awesome.  The most impressive part of going to the game was the fact that they didn't have any advertising inside the stadium.  I'm used to the ASU stadium and the NFL stadiums where they will sell any space that they have available to plaster somebodies business logo on there.  There wasn't any type of corporate advertising that could be seen around the field, just the sea of Notre Dame fans.  They are one of three undefeated teams this year.  It is crazy living and working up here because college sports are such a huge part of the culture up here.  People are a lot more passionate about their college teams up here than they were back in Arizona.

The Transition

It has been almost exactly two months since I left Arizona and moved out here to Indiana.  Although I do miss my family and friends, I am so glad that I made the move.  I was always super busy when I lived in Arizona and barely made time to even sleep.  I figured that once I moved up here I would have more time to relax and slow down, but it has actually been the opposite.  I have been trying to get involved with everything that my coworkers like to do and so far they have done a great job keeping me entertained and introducing me to new adventures.