Giving thanks for a break

We where given a break for thanksgiving so unfortunately we did not have class on Thursday.  I went west to some family in Spring Valley.  We played the traditional "Turkey Bowl" touch football game in the snow and weather sporting the very cold teens.  Starting off with four on one team and five on another everyone began to warm up as runs where made in an attempt at a goal.  Soon though a cousin showed up with seven Chinese exchange students and the teams had more flesh and bone to better even out the work.  My face was steadily freezing from the moisture my breath created and a scarf saved the day.  Our team had some intense runs and where able to pull out in the lead to win the game by one touch down.  After the game everyone chowed down on an amazing Thanksgiving meal.  Some relatives I hadn’t seen in years so it was a bit strange to be all-together again.  One of my cousins had a two year old daughter that was adorable and met for the first time.  As the evening progressed I became the usual post thanksgiving tired overfed zombie and was thankful to get out of the house into a snowy evening for a brisk walk to wake up.

We did have class on Tuesday though and where able to cut down 10 ft sheets of dry wall to a more manageable 6ft to place our large sheets of paper on for a skeleton project.  This project will take up the last weeks of the semester till we are finished with classes.  A whole skeleton is to be drawn in a simulated three-dimensional way on the whole sheet of paper.  By the time we are done it must detail all of the bone in our body that our view of the skeleton provides as the class surrounds one available skeleton on all sides.  It gets a bit claustrophobic with everyone's 6 ft drawing board creating a simulated cubicle space in which they observe the skeleton and work on puzzling it out on paper.