Thanksgiving

I love thanksgiving, its definately one of my favorite holidays. I like it because its a good time for everyone to reflect on the things that we're thankful for. I also love all the good food. Usually, my family switches every year to which side of the family we visit, but this year we just had it here with just us. We had turkey, mashed potatoes, corn, gravy, rolls, yams, key lime pie, and i think thats it. I'm so thankful for my family and friends, my home, the clothes i wear, and the food i eat. I'm thankful for everything that i have. After thanksgiving dinner, we watched a movie together. We just pretty much spent all day together and had fun. Now I can't wait for Christmas, my favorite holiday :)

Hey! So I'm all set up now. My name is Katie and I live in Northern California. It sounds like it would be just like any other place in California, but it's not. There are no beaches, and rather than surfing, most people snowboard and ski here. There are so many pine trees here you feel like your drowning in green. The neighborhoods are smaller, and the crime and violence rates are very low. It's a place where it takes an hour to get to the mall, and if you want to by brand name clothes, you buy them online. People are generally friendly here, and you can wave to anyone, and most of the time they'll wave and smile back. For the most part, it's a quiet place to live. Some of the things to do are go see a movie, go to the lake (we have at least 5 here), snowboard or ski, walk around downtown, hang out at parks. If you really want to do something, then you will have to drive to get there. The communities are very strong here, you know your neighbors pretty well. I live in a gated community, so we have a lot of rules. You can't ride skateboards or motorcycles in here, you have to get anything your going to build approved first, and we have security patroling at all times. Sorry, this is kind of a long post. So Friday was Halloween, and it was very rainy here. Most kids here trick-or-treat in all the different neighborhoods. Some kids go the the House of Horrors, which is a building at a park where they decorate it very scary and put in our Drama kids from my high school. The kids walk through the rooms, and the drama kids scare them. They are in costume and hide all throughout the "house". I didn't want to go out in the rain, so I did my mom a favor and took my little brothers trick-or-treating. Hope you didn't fall asleep while reading this!