The Tacoed Thanksgiving Party

 

    This year’s Thanksgiving party was probably the most interesting one I have ever attended. It was celebrated at Big Justin’s house.  His mom invited our family and a couple other Chinese families over. Darren and Wesley also came to join the fun. The party lasted for more than five hours, and still we did not want to go home.

    My mom and I arrived at Big Justin’s house at around 4:20 pm, while my dad went to pick up the turkey we ordered from a nearby restaurant. Although everyone invited had already arrived by 4:45, the feast did not start until around 5:30, for the moms had to quench their thirst for gossip first. The meal was buffet style, with Wesley’s dad cutting up the turkey. For some odd reason, he gave me a whole turkey leg, so big I could knock someone out with it. I also had a lot of other food (mostly meat, no shrimp), and I was totally stuffed by six o’clock.

    After the meal was when things got a bit interesting. The big kids were down in the basement, doing something random. Darren, Wesley, and I were trying to annoy them by coming to the edge of the basement stairs and sniggering. We even got some lego robots and put them at the foot of the stairs. When Big Justin came to check, we told him that it was the robots, not us. Eventually, they were really annoyed and dragged us painfully down the stairs and into the basement. In the middle was a play mat, which the big kids put Darren and me on, side by side.

    What happened next was really weird. Big Justin rolled Darren and me into the mat and bound us. So there we were, stuck together and barely able to move a muscle. I bet that we looked like a human taco, inviting everyone to take a bite. Suddenly, a hand that felt like Wesley’s grabbed my foot, and tried to pull off my socks.  But I kicked furiously and Wesley only succeeded in taking of one sock off half way.

    Soon, Darren and I fought free, and everyone started tacoing everyone. I got tacoed 3 or 4 more times, and also rolled myself up and almost tripped someone while rolling. A boy in college who has the same Chinese nickname as me dragged his sister to the mat and tried to taco her as well. But she was strong and quick because of her training as a tennis player, and got free. We tacoed and tackled for almost an hour until we went back to playing games.

    This Thanksgiving celebration was one that I won’t forget soon. But even though it was awkward, the party was still very fun. This party will probably stay forever in my memory.