Thanksgiving!

And we had much to be thankful for.  Starting with having our first turkey day with Grandma in #*(^  years.  Can't even remember the last one, but we did remember a lot of Thanksgivings with a) early morning drives from Silver Spring  b) hundreds of people sleeping all over the place  c) us taking over Uncle Jim's and Aunt Georgia's house in Greenwich for the weekend, and probably a few others as well.
 
Anyway, all those who think Thanksgiving is the best holidayt, raise your hands.  It's unanimous.  John had driven up on Saturday to get Grandma the week before, and she spent the whole week, climbing stairs, looking for the spoons, dodging the dog, reading two books, and doing the crossword puzzle every day (with John reading the clues.)  She's good at that by the way.  But of course we already knew that.   
 
Unfortunately, we missed Melodie and Jeffrey who were planning on coming over, but Jeff got a cold and they had their own version of Thanksgiving (see photo.)  We did get a chance to see them for brunch on Sunday before, where Jeffrey beat John in the pancake eating contest.  
 
Joe and Margaret came over for turkey and a quiet meal with way too much food.  Annie arrived Friday as she had to work Thanksgiving Day.  She's here now, and she and Margaret and Mary are doing the right thing for the economy that they refused to do last Friday.  Joe missed Annie as he caught an early morning flight to Alabama to join friends there for a weekend of college football fever and some outdoors shenanigans, I think.
 
What's Thanksgiving without a weekend movie?  We did a Philip Seymour Hoffman film festival watching "Doubt" with Grandma and then "Pirate Radio" on Saturday.  Recommend them both, especially the latter for those music buffs who want to re-live the greatest music ever.
 
Here's one I bet nobody else did on Sunday - we went to Thanksgiving dinner all over again.  Turkey, stuffing, potatoes, and pies, and theyu weren't even leftovers.  Some Peace Corps friends who just moved to the area had their dinner on Sunday. 
 
So, here it is Monday, and we're going to have....pizza.  Back to normalcy of good eating.   Hope you all had a great turkey day!  Love from down here.