My Bulgarian’s daughter on a college tour of the East Coast + Emily Johnson + Jeff from the Chelsea + A Dane + the coolest parents ever who let all these crazy people crash at their condo in Philly =

Best. Thanksgiving. Ever.

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My cousin Vivian made an amazing meal and let all these orphans crash it!

In case you wondered where I got THIS from:


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It runs in the family (my dad after dinner):

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I know you can’t tell from this picture, but my dad is a genius.  He’s one of the world’s leading experts in International Terrorism.  He’s written fourteen books…and I swear, one day I’ll actually read one (they are pretty intense):

He travels a lot, doing muy importante stuff with governmental agencies and military all over the world, and what he does is more meaningful than I could possibly describe in a short paragraph …so I’ll just focus on something I am much more apt at describing – his awesome hat collection! He’s got them from everywhere he travels and the different agencies he works with…and every couple of years he let’s my friends and I mess around with them!
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And if you thought Thanksgiving couldn’t get any weirder, just wait:
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Then we go to Paddy’s (the Always Sunny in Philadelphia bar), then decide to visit a historic landmark around the corner:
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Elfreth’s Alley is a residential alley located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in the United States. It is one of the oldest continuously inhabited residential streets in the country, dating back to the early 1700s.[2] It is a National Historic Landmark. The alley is located off Second Street between Arch and Race Streets in Philadelphia’s Old City Neighborhood.


And desecrate it  with our embarrassing behavior…
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And since Thanksgiving is a celebration of America…we visit other historic sites as well.  This is us by Penn’s Landing:
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And underneath the Ben Franklin bridge:
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In my parent’s parking lot:
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Then we get home, and I get nostalgic and look at old scrapbooks (this sometimes happens when Emily is around – I’m reading a note she wrote me in high school):
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And I find a lost treasure!  And it is AUTOGRAPHED!
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Then we wake up the poor sixteen year-old (check out the teddy bear…have you ever seen anything more ADORABLE than this picture?):
And harass her too:
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And make her eat chocolate cake!
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And with that, the BEST THANKSGIVING EVER comes to a five a.m. close.
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