when we would go back to our hometown it would be go hunting till about 11 then it was the mad dash to 6 different places to eat. wife has a step family as well so it adds 2 more onto the equation. now we just stay at our new home and eat and watch football. we normally put our christmas tree up on thanksgiving day but the mrs got motivated and put it up a wk early. i refuse to travel after my last 2 times of sitting in traffic mad as a pinned up bull