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Thanksgiving Vacation

Posted by Mark | Filed under Life

Drove up to Mom’s house.  We should have arrived between 9–10 hours after we started.  One wrong turn meant we arrived 12 hours after we started¹.  On the bright side, it was a pretty drive (at least until it got dark) and we did arrive safely.

It was a good visit and while we were there:

• enjoyed a bit of Christ­mas fun at Bronner’s
• bought a new hat (kind of like this but in a dark grey)
• picked up a new light fix­ture for our porch (only $56!)
• picked up Zoe’s Tale and read it (very likey Mr. Scalzi’s best work yet)
• some books from the local used book store
• ate far too much food, includ­ing some fresh taffy we picked up in Frankenmuth
• rem­i­nisced with Mom & Aunt Penny (includ­ing going through a bunch of old photos)

Ah, good times.  :)

Update: Oh yeah, I almost for­got.  Fri­day (day before we came back) got a call from awelkin that our fur­nace had gone out while we were gone and the indoor temp was down to 40 degrees.  Urk!  For­tu­nately with some slight prompt­ing, the ines­timable Bryon was able to revive it.  My in-laws stopped in to check on it the next day while we were in tran­sit and the house was all nice and warm again.  Wahoo!

¹ Ver­sus the 9–10 hours we were expect­ing the drive to take.

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