Happy Thanksgiving (aka Texans are EVERYWHERE)

So, Thanksgiving started out great. I mean, why wouldn't it? I have so, so, so much to be thankful for.

Greg and his dad ran in the Turkey Trot around Lincoln Park, while his mom and I stayed at the hotel and watched the parade from our beds. (It might have only been a block away, but come on, it was raining and cold. Cindy - we made a very good choice...)

We had a wonderful dinner at McCormick and Schmick's around the corner.

Then it happened. A girl sat down at the next table wearing a Baylor shirt. I have no idea why she was in a t-shirt at this restaurant, but I am not here to judge. So, of course, we struck up a conversation only to find out the whole family was there from Texas and her mother used to live in Keller.

We thought this was odd, but we kept going on with our Thanksgiving day. We took the usual two hour nap after dinner (which was really lunch) and then figured we would continue our tradition of bowling on Thanksgiving.
Where we happened to watch the Dallas game. And, for the first time, and probably the last time, we cheered on the Cowboys. Greg picked them in his pool this week, so it was a must. I was more than happy to cheer against Oakland though.

We then found Mother Hubbard's (a great little place to watch sports). They put the game on a couple of TVs for us and we enjoyed the moment with some local beers and delicious nachos. It was perfect. On one screen was the Baylor game, on another the Broncos and the other screen had the Texas vs Texas A&M game. Just as we were really enjoying ourselves a man with an awful burnt orange sweatshirt sat down next to us to watch the UT game. He even had an orange shirt on underneath. Then, the table on the other side of us started cheering for the Aggies. We thought maybe they were just anti-longhorns, but they were actually A&M grads transplanted to Chicago and had friends visiting from Texas.

I swear they are everywhere. We even sat next to a couple from Mansfield at the play on Friday night. The wife was from Colorado originally and got her PhD at Baylor. I can't decide if I am more in awe of how small of a world we live in or how huge Texas is....