Assignment 14 - Daniel Brewer

My family’s traditions for Thanksgiving usually include going to the KY Horse Park to see the Southern Lights and model train layout, and eating dinner with my grandparents and aunts/uncles/cousins.


Our family dinners aren’t exactly “picture perfect”, like the big table with everyone gathered around and a big turkey as the centerpiece like you see on television.  We usually crowd into my Grandmother’s tiny house where the kids’ table is a card table in the hallway and the adults eat in shifts because there isn’t enough room at the table.  We don’t watch football on Thanksgiving, but sometimes we play board games and go for a walk around the neighborhood, if the weather is nice.


I have always enjoyed going to the Horse Park during the Southern Lights event, and we usually go over Thanksgiving weekend..  It always is neat to drive through the Horse Park at night and look at the scenery and the Christmas light displays.  Usually they add some new display areas (dinosaurs, Star Wars, etc) but this year I hope they fix some of the older displays.  Many of the lights are burnt out and it’s difficult to tell what they are supposed to be.  For many years my brother and I also had our picture made with Santa at this event, and we still take a family picture with him every year.  


I also really enjoy looking at the model train layout they have in the basement of one of the buildings.  I really like looking at cities and populated areas from above, and model train layouts (and Google Earth!)  provide a way of doing that for relatively cheap compared to, say, airplanes or traveling to themeparks or skyscrapers with observation decks.  Sure, it isn’t the real world, but it’s something.