¨Thanksgiving and Black Friday =)

Hey there, so now it's Sunday evening and I'll take the time to write another post, isn't that nice of me?
Thanksgiving was cool, different than I imagined it, but still awesome. We got up in the morning around 10 and then just hang around in the house until Lorena took us to a All-you-can-eat Buffet, which is typical for Las Vegas. Like always at such a buffet, I ate too much. Then we went home and got ready for the dinner at Itzel's house. We left around 3:45, so we would be there at 4.... well we turned into the community on the left side, instead of the on the right side, we drove around for 10 minutes, before we actually figured out, that it was the wrong one. Itzel was already out and looking for us, so we didn't had to look for her house on the other side of the street as well, what saved some time!
When we finally arrived at Itzel's house, we were sitting there and just talking to Itzel, which was a lot of fun. Then we ate, there was a lot of different things to taste: Ham, chicken, appelsalad, normal salad, pasta and some more things. For the dessert, they had brownies and jelly, both made by Itzel, it was soo tasty! What a wonder, I ate too much the second time at that day^^

On friday was Black Friday, something they need to have in Switzerland as well. Selin and I got up around 8, so we wouldn't get there too late, then Jana Gronau arrived at our house around 9, and after half an hour we left for the Outlet Mall. There we met up with Kaori and Alina, two other exchange students. We walked through the whole mall, but didn't really find anything, well except in Tommy Hilfiger. So we decided we would go to the Fashion Show Mall, which was a pretty good idea.
At the Fashion Show Mall we went into a lot of stores, and had a lot of fun! But there was a missunderstanding with Kaori and Alina's hostmum, who was suppossed to bring us back home. But in the end we figured everything out, and we came home arounf 9:30 in the evening, so we had a 11 hour shopping day, we both were very tired after it...

Today then, Selin and I went around in the neighborhood to sell cookie dough, for the Softball team fundrasising, in which we're hoping to get in... But NOBODY wanted to buy anything, well at least the one who were at home, except for the last one. He said we should come back on Thursday, after pay-day, and he would buy some then... Well we weren't that succesful, but at least we tried it, and we're going again on Thursday, hopefully there more wanting to buy something then...
After this Lorena asked us, if we would like to go to the Fashionshow Mall (yeah again, but it's like the biggest and best mall in Las Vegas, and it's not on the other side of town, like Townsquare or Galleria...) to see the Christmas Show. Aspen and her mom were there too, what was actually the reason to go there. But we missed the 2-o'clock show, so we had to wait 2 hours for the next one. We were walking around in the mall, going into childrens store, because Aspen needs some longsleeve-dresses and shirts. It wasn't all to interesting for Selin and me, so we went to Starbucks, which was right next to one of the stores they were in. Waiting in the line, we met some swiss people and we started to talk to them. It was sooo awesom to speak swissgerman with people standing right next to you, and not only over the phone, or betters said skype.
Then after the two hours have passed, we went to see the Christmas-Show, which was on the catwalk, which is only up for shows. It was interesting and it gave me sort of a christmas feeling, what I haven't really had and already lost again after the show. But I enjoyed the show and was glad I went there with Lorena and Selin!
By the way, you don't really get into the Christmas-mood, when there is still sunshine and it's around 15° C outside... It makes me miss Switzerland!

So that's it for today... oh you also going to have a post from Selin, or at least you should^^
Johanna