Thanksgiving, Part Duex

Jon, Susan, Dan and Kris got up at 5ish to head out to save $5 on some black friday sale. We slept in... Or sort of. Cathie's parents have a nice chiming clock that goes off every 15 minutes or so, and woke me up every fifteen minutes, so I didn't sleep all that well. We all met up around 11 to do our annual Christmas tree shopping. We decided to break with tradition and try a new tree place, Peacock Road Tree Farm. It was a nice place with a petting zoo and some other cool stuff, but they charged a few bucks more than the other place used to. By the time we'd seen all the sights and checked out the trees and their prices, the kids were freezing. Being decendents of my father, everyone decided they'd go elsewhere to save 23 cents and look elsewhere. Rather than make the trek back out into the field, we took pictures of the family as we pretended to cut down a pre-cut tree, hoping that in 3 years, it would look like we continued our longstanding tradition of cutting them down.

From there, we headed to Cathie's for another feast. We ate like kings, again, while Cathie's brother Ed worked hard to look good while doing it:


Before the food coma set in, Cathie's Dad and I took the kids over to a new sledding hill down the road at the new Granger park that was excellent. It snowed hard, the hill was fast and the kids had fun and didn't whine... Can't ask for more than that:

We drove back through some pretty nasty snow and got back in around 9something. Great two days. Now, to veg and get ready for the real-world on Monday.