I have emerged from a tryptophan-induced coma to write this entry.
We got home around 8 tonight, fed the dogs, watched Jeopardy, and I promptly fell
asleep, waking at 1 a.m. and staggering off to the living room to continue my sleep, but
once I got settled on the couch, the thought that I had not yet written a journal entry
started to nag at me (yes, I'm that compulsive about this journal), so I finally got up to
write it so I could finally get back to sleep.
We had not one, but two Thanksgivings today, and neither of
them was spent with any of our children, the first time since 1966 that we have not been
with any of our kids. We did talk with both Ned and Jeri, and Tom sent a text
message, though.
We started our turkey-o-rama at Atria, where we went to their
Thanksgiving brunch, a gala affair with ham and turkey with all the trimmings except
stuffing. No stuffing!!! But the food was, as always, very good and we enjoyed
ourselves with my mother and, for a time, with Peggy, who was waiting for her daughters to
arrive so they could enjoy their own feast.
We finished our visit and said goodbye to my mother and started out
of Atria, when Sandra, the receptionist, told me we should take a pie from the stack of
pies all over the lobby. Since we already had 2 pumpkin pies at home, we chose a
fruit pie with red showing. I didn't know what kind of "red" it was, but
we took that one (it turned out to be rhubarb).
At around 4, after watching the National Dog Show on TV, we drove
over to the home of Ned's in-laws. Ned wasn't there, being at home in his neck brace
and unable to ride in a car (but his friend Jessica came to cook turkey dinner for the two
of them). But we found things in the Wilson kitchen under fabulous control of
Marta's step-sister, Lindsay.
It wasn't long before the turkey was ready to be carved.
Lindsay's father-in-law Dan did the honors. Walt said the best thing about
having dinner at the Wilsons was that he didn't have to carve the turkey!
Lindsay's daughter had made place markers for everybody that were
very cute.
(I posted the above photo to Instagram, which posts to Facebook, and
as we were sitting down to dinner, Lindsay thanked me for posting the photo, which means
she had things so well in hand, she had time to check Facebook before serving the meal!!)
There were three tables set up. I didn't get a picture of the
kids' table, but these were the other tables:
We actually didn't know several people at the dinner, though enjoyed
getting to know them a little. Lindsay's in-laws, though, we had connected with on
our Russia trip. They were taking the same cruise, but on a different ship and we
ran into each other in the Amber Room of the Hermitage and arranged to have lunch together
that afternoon ("your ship or ours?") We have since enjoyed comparing
notes on our respective cruises.
When dinner was over, there was the choice of which dessert to have.
And then, after sitting around chatting some more, we finally decided
we had to get home to feed the dogs. I really wasn't sure how today was going to go,
not being with the kids, but it turned out to be a very lovely Thanksgiving, even if I
don't want to have turkey OR pumpkin pie tomorrow.
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