What a great Thanksgiving weekend we had! Both daughters, our favorite son-in-law, and both granddogs were here and we did all our traditional activities and added a couple of new ones. Once again, the weather cooperated – as it has been doing for us all year – and we didn’t have to cancel any plans.
Wednesday
Everyone arrived safely on Wednesday evening. Penny cooked a pork roast for the arriving hungry travelers. Brie was relegated to our room to avoid being traumatized by all the “strangers” and dogs. She didn’t let Penny and I sleep in on Thanksgiving morning.
We did find that the turkey had defrosted after sitting in the fridge for 5days so after making everyone breakfast burritos Penny worked her magic preparing the Thanksgiving meal. Our traditional meal is turkey, dressing, gravy, sweet potato muggin, green beans, apple salad, cranberry sauce, biscuits, iced tea and wine. We saw, we ate, we full! Everything was great! Somehow with all the food on the table I missed the apple salad completely. After the meal came the traditional nap. Then Tim went on the telephone in search of someplace to watch the Kansas City game. Christy and Tim went out to see the game. Karen Penny and I stayed home and had pumpkin pie and whipped cream and/or ice cream for dinner. The day ended with planning a shopping strategy for Friday morning.
Friday – Hunter Gatherers
Penny and I got up at 3:45 AM on Friday. For once Brie was not the first one up. Turn-about is fair play! We got to Circuit City at 4:30 – our primary mission – to get a GPS nav system for Karen and Tim. The secondary goal was a big USB hard drive for us. Beyond that we would pick up whatever bargains we could on items we would use. Karen, Christy and Tim went to Target for their mission. It was a chilly morning – about 42 degrees – so everyone was bundled up. There were more than 200 people in line ahead of us and more than that behind us when the doors opened at 5 AM. Circuit City handed out vouchers for the big-ticket items to the 1st 50 people in line so there was no panic of people trying to get those items. The items we wanted were plentiful but if they weren’t Penny would have gotten them anyway. She is a master of holiday shopping. We got everything we wanted and then Penny got stuff for other people in the store as I waited in line.
We took our traditional walk on the beach and decided that we would bring the dogs to the beach on Saturday. We all enjoyed the clear emerald green water and mid temperatures. Later there was the normal consumption of leftovers – a repeat of the Thanksgiving dinner – for our evening meal. Karen, Tim and Christy went to a movie and I went to bed early – Getting up early finally caught up with me (I didn’t take a nap).
Saturday – Dogs Gone Wild!
After a hardy breakfast creation by Penny we packed the dogs in the car and went back to the beach. We got there early enough and went to a secluded part of the beach such that we had the whole beach to ourselves. The dogs loved it! Finn almost never stood still. He ran and splashed and swam and chased birds. Truman waded in and bit the waves as they splashed on him. Truman got so wrapped up with the beach that he forgot us and headed off down the beach and just kept going. Tim got in a good ½ mile run catching up with him.
After the beach we went to Harbor Docks our favorite restaurant for family get togethers. As usual it did not disappoint- good food, nice view, good service. We TiVoed the FL-FSU game and watched it when we got home. Christy was happy her team won.
We went shopping at Big Lots and Tuesday Morning (Instigated by Christy) on our way to eat dinner at Slick Mick’s. Then we finished the day by breaking out our Karaoke machine. Tim and Karen are good at karaoke. Penny did a slam bang “Joy to the World”. I was too shy to do much. Christy sent the devil on down to Georgia.
Sunday – Parting is such sweet sorrow
Sunday morning was blueberry pancakes and church. Then everyone gathered up their stuff and went home. Truman was making sure he didn’t get left behind – so much so that when our neighbor opened his car door Truman jumped in. We all hugged many times – and then it was over.
It took Brie a while to realize everyone had gone. She could still smell everyone. Now after 24 hours she is comfortable again.
I enjoyed the whole weekend and feel blessed that we could have the whole family together.
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