Coming over the pass Wednesday night wasn’t bad at all despite the lane closures. Kim drove all the way from Seattle to Spokane too since she was so in the groove. We got to my parents house and we all watched “The Way Things Go”.
Thursday morning Kim cooked her tofurkey in the morning and we all left around noon. All the family in the area was at Gwenda’s except Joyce who wasn’t feeling well. Bill and Rosemary even came in for Thanksgiving. Everyone caught up with everyone else, looked at a lot of pictures and sang songs. Mike is getting really good at the piano so he played a little concert for us, and his cousin Amber was good enough to play some music that everyone could sing along to.
There was plenty of food as always, but there wasn’t any stuffing except for in Kim’s tofurkey so it was a pretty big hit. Gwenda was planning on just having ham, but that didn’t go over too well with some people so there was turkey too. Then there was pie. Apple, pumpkin and raspberry. Mmmmmm. Pie.
During dinner Kim and I announced our official wedding date and location, Sept 30th in Bristol Vermont, and after dinner we asked Bill and Rosemary to perform the ceremony. They were excited to and we’re excited to have them. They did the ceremonies for Joyce, Gwenda and my parents, so it’s somewhat of a family tradition that we’re looking forward to carrying on.
Dave, Sue, Mike and Amber and the older generation left and then the remaining people decided to play Taboo. Kim got an impressive 7 words in one round and Sierra is almost as good as the adults. I gave Larry the wooden puzzle that I’ve been passing around and he solved it in a very novel way.
The next day we went into Spokane to Grandma’s house to hang out with family some more and watch Dad’s slide shows of Africa pictures. Joyce was feeling well enough to hang out for a little while.
Today we’re just taking it easy and gonna play some cards.