Happy Thanksgiving Weekend

Today is the great day of stuffing one's face. Yet for some odd reason I eat less on Thanksgiving then any other day. I have never been a big turkey fan. I got overly excited when I saw that we were having ham as well. Enough about the food. This Thanksgiving was the first one at my Grandparents new house in Payson. Prior to this year, a Thanksgiving gathering meant driving 10 minutes to their house in Mesa. Now it is a fun drive up to the mountains. I actually had to bring a coat. There were a lot of people there. Every year there are more and more. Damn cousins getting married and having offspring. When there are that many people there is no other way to have Thanksgiving but buffet style. Otherwise know as "get it yourself."

After eating we went to the park by their house. The park has a couple lakes and a whole lot of ducks and geese. Just look at them all!
We were giving the ducks and geese some bird seed since they are birds. They started to get aggressive so we ran away. After the park it was back to the house for pie. The funny thing about pie was that since there was so much leftover pumpkin pie last year, no one brought any. We had cheesecake and banana cream. After all that it was time to go home and pack for tomorrow.

Tomorrow my mom and I are flying to North Carolina to see my brother Andrew. I'm taking my old laptop to give to him. I think that's enough blogging until I get back. I better go sync my iPod up for the 4 hour flight.

Prop 103: Arizona's Official Language is Now English

The people have spoken! Prop 103 has been passed and English is now Arizona's official language. What does this change? Due to this being passed the following changes will be made:

• Mesa, Arizona will now be Table, Arizona
• Casa Grande, Arizona will be now Big House, Arizona
  
• Aqua Fria Freeway will now be known as the Cold Water Freeway
• Estrella Mountain will be Star Mountain.

This is a joke by the way, but what exactly does this accomplish? I am sure the claim is that it will save the state money in that they do not have to print everything in English and Spanish and have to have translators. However, I think these laws get proposed and passed because people believe it will stop or slow down immigration.

Someone is going to read this and think "No Nick that's not what it's all about." That, however, is assuming people read this blog. Think about this: we make these laws that make it harder for them to get into this country and laws that make it harder for them to even live in this country but what about the people who came here legally and have yet to learn English? Do they think that a family down in Mexico thinking about coming north to the US is going to think "Arizona is out of the question. We won't be able to read any government documents" or "Screw that, we have to show ID to vote there." They are not going to stop coming until Mexico fixes its economy and government. This concludes my random rant.