Thanksgiving Dinner and Beer Pong

We postponed our Thanksgiving feast a few days so we could celebrate the holiday with friends from Lawrence. We hung out most of the day last Saturday and started cooking late afternoon. We ended up making homemade mashed potatoes and gravy, homemade cornbread, yams, lots of fresh veggies, and then we bought a roasted chicken to substitute for the turkey. The meal was really tasty and pretty picturesque (minus the fact that we used a coffee table and folding chairs). It was a pretty traditional meal, but our post-dinner festivities were unusual for Thanksgiving.

We made plans a few weeks prior to Thanksgiving with Meghan and Charles to play beer pong when they visited. This is a drinking game involving plastic cups full of beer arranged in a triangle like a rack of billard balls. Each team shoots ping pong balls across the table and when they score, their opponent drinks and discards the cup. The first team to hit all their opponents cups wins.

Since we didn't have suitable plastic cups, we used ceramic mugs and glass tumblers. We also don't have a long table; so we layed a door from our bureau on the desk and set up from there. We didn't have a lot of beer and our cups made really difficult targets, so it became a long drawn out battle of the sexes. Meghan and I won two games whether from luck or skill (probably the former), and the round went down as two of the tamest/soberest drinking games ever.