Carol @ Rockhurst: Goodness/Gracious

Just when I'm thinking that Halloween is my favorite holiday, Thanksgiving always comes along and throws me a curve-ball. No classes? A chance to go home? Turkey and stuffing and mashed potatoes and gravy and creamy corn and fresh rolls and cranberries and pumpkin pie? Yes, please! Forget what I said before - Thanksgiving is totally my favorite holiday. Plus, Thanksgiving is only the beginning of the Christmas season; meaning that once Thanksgiving is over, there's still so much celebrating to be done!

Waiting in line for the SAB turkey dinner.

Before Thanksgiving break even began at Rockhurst (we had a whole week off of classes!), SAB sponsored a free turkey dinner for all Rockhurst students. You have to get there early because the line gets pretty long, so my roommate and I camped out for 45 minutes before the doors opened. SAB offered all of the traditional Thanksgiving feast favorites and played gentle piano music in the background. That free dinner definitely got me in the Thanksgiving spirit!

During Thanksgiving break I was fortunate enough to be able to go home for five whole days. Once I got off work on Sunday, I dashed home, threw everything in my car, said goodbye to KC's bizarre 75 degree weather, and prepared for bundle up for the low 30s in Omaha. Brrrrr. It certainly is beginning to feel a lot like Christmas. Once home, my mom and I took a little over-night trip to visit my grandparents in Norfolk, Nebraska, then we hurried back to Omaha for the main event. Thanksgiving dinner. Yum.

By Kent Bellows

Even though I had to go back to KC in order to work on Black Friday, I managed to cram in a little bit more family time on Friday morning. We all woke up bright an early to take advantage of - no, not the Black Friday shopping deals - free admission to Omaha's Joselyn Art Museum. Let's just say that the crowds at the art museum where much easier to handle than at Best Buy or Wal-Mart or SAB's free turkey dinner.

You might be thinking right now that I must be some sort of art museum junkie, since I just made a post about the scavenger hunt I had at KC's Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, but this frequent museum-going is entirely a fluke. My dad really wanted to see an art exhibit by Kent Bellows, an Omaha artist who made pencil, graphite, and charcoal drawings that capture the "reality" of the observed world. The exhibit was absolutely breathtaking; even up close, so many of his realist drawings looked like photographs.

Before we left the museum, my family took the time to look at the steel sculpture of blown glass located in the Joselyn's main entry/atrium. My little nine-year-old sister, Monica, was so interested in the twirling tendrils of colorful blown glass. It was the perfect end to a perfect Thanksgiving break.