Happy Thanksgiving

We had a quiet day waiting for my sister Rhea, Jon and Sam to get here. Lots of cleaning and raking (we had a beautiful day with lots of sun and temperatures just short of 70). Most people here celebrate Thanksgiving on the Thursday. We decided to hold off until everyone arrived. It's interesting to see all the out of state cars in everyone's driveways. There seems to be people from all over the country here this weekend. The reports suggest that people won't be travelling as much this long weekend but the price of gas being so low has made it somewhat inexpensive. We're down to $1.65 a gallon.

Our company arrived around 5:30 and Isabelle was ecstatic. She loves her cousin. In fact she pretty much smothered him for the first few hours. There was a bit of a fuss when she couldn't sleep in the same room with him but she worked it out in the end. This morning they both slept in (almost 'til 8:00). If it wasn't for Maggie I would have slept in too.

Today is Black Friday here. It's one of the biggest shopping days of the year, often 2nd only to Christmas Eve. I don't think we'll be going out for much. Some stores were opening at 5:00 and a few were even going to be open at midnight! I think the plan is pretty much just to have a quiet day. Maybe I'll get to the gym, and the Christmas lights we bought last week need to be put up, Maggie could use a walk, I need to clean up the garage...