Thanksgiving 2006

Drove all day through rural TN and KY listening to a U of M game on the radio (the only other possibilities being country music or modern christian-eww!) and finally arrived in Owensboro without any hair-raising deer episodes, although there were a lot of victims on the road. Sometimes I think deer are suicidal maniacs...

When I arrived no one was home but the dogs. Turns out they were all over at Alice's so I went over there and kicked it with them for the rest of the evening.

Hung out there again before everyone arrived and we took baby Luke out to check out John's tractor assortment. He's decidedly going through the "transportation stage" that all boys seem to go through (and some never get out of) and putting him in the seat of a tractor made him smile and giggle all afternoon until John brought out one of the smaller ones and let him "drive" which probably blew his mind. He "drove" around the yard with us in the trailer with Cassie. Needless to say he walked around all the rest of the weekend going "tractor!" "tractor!" Talk about some hands-on learning.

The next day I spent mostly at Alice and John's house until people began arriving later in the afternoon. After awhile enough people had arrived to generate a party of 20 or so which we marshalled to commandeer the Schnitzelbank for the rest of the evening.

Thursday we all kinda lazed around the house most of the morning and afternoon until we got motivated enough to go do Thanksgiving. It was so warm we ended up eating outside in 70 degree weather until the sun took the heat with it and after dark we did our part to increase UFO sightings in southern Indiana.

Luckily we had a bit of the afternoon the next day to hang out a bit, talk to my brother on the phone and run around with the kids until it was time to head back for civilization. I missed them all something fierce by midafternoon. The drive home was uneventful but the flight sure was strenuous...