Thanksgiving + Black Friday!

I think it is safe to say that this weekend is the most American weekend of the year. Consumerism and Capitalism all over the place!

No really, the Thanksgiving-weekend is more than insane. But insanely awesome. The entire table is filled with so much indulgently delicious food, you don´t know where to start - so just put EVERYTHING on your plate at once! If you do not feel so bad about yourself that you want to crawl up in a fetus-like position and cry in the shower for hours, you obviously did not eat right.
Thanksgiving is there to celebrate one thing, and one thing only - how far a society has advanced. The sole reason why it exists is to make you feel superior to the rest of the world, by shoving as much food down your throat as humanly possible, without worrying at all about the misery in the rest of the world.... fantasmic!

Omnomnomtastic Turkey!

But endless availability of delicious food is not the only way to kick the rest of the world´s ass, there is also the issue of materialism - and that´s what Black Friday is for. The best way digest the half turkey you just ate is to sit back and scan through 3pounds of special Black Friday advertisement papers to look for the most insane deals. Every store opens at 12am, midnight... and don´t think no one´s going to be there.... people wait in line for hours. Hours and hours. Or they just camp outside for a day and have Thanksgiving dinner in their tents, since the number of available Flatscreen 50'' HD-TV´s for under 300$ is limited. Just like the number of XBOX360´s for 130$.
1 or 2 deaths during Black Friday are considered normal... really, people get into arguments over who got the last video-camera or whatever to a point where they pull guns at each other. Or just beat each other up. The news talked about a guy pointing his gun at other people, and a woman pepper-spraying her way towards the doorbuster-deals.
And don´t think you´re not going to buy anything, just because you´re not looking for anything specific... i have no idea where my 200$ went - the Blu-Ray DVD´s where under 5$ each, so i guess the rest went to clothes and such. It was more like a treasure-hunt than it was shopping. Which made it kinda adventurous.

And hey! After loosing quite a good amount of money, what would be the best place to got to next? Right, a Casino! But some of the great Manitus up there seems to like me for some reason, this awesome giant Indian Casino kept throwing money at me. Just after we got there, i put 2$ into this 'Miss Kitty'-Slotmachine, pushed the button, and got 20,40$ out of it. After just one. single. round. Awesome! On we went to the Black-Jack table, and here´s where we got really lucky... mostly due to the nice elderly couple at our table, we all made a nice profit, even though the 'losing and winning' went back and forth for quite a while. But thanks to them for explaining to us what we were doing there!
Feels good to walk out of Casino with 40$ extra in your pocket :)

All in all, this weekend just kicked ass big time.

...and this was just a third of the line infront of this Target store. 

I didn´t participate in any war, but it couldn´t have possibly been worse than was going on here.

A nicely glowing tree in a nice park in Milwaukee :)