November 27

Day after Thanksgiving is good but yesterday was a great day.  We got to see half of our family, we went to our Daughters house for Thanksgiving and had a great time.  We watched a little football and had a outstanding dinner.  Jeff's folks were there along with Jeff's brother-in-law Stein and his two kids JJ and Kai.  Those two kids are growing up fast.  We had two of our friends come with us for Thanksgiving Jim & Cherrill Roberts, we worked together a lot for Adventure Caravans.
It made for a long day yesterday with us leaving before 7:00 AM and heading up to our daughters house.  But it was well worth it.  We got back here just after 8:00 PM and there were two tired people.  I think last night we were in bed before 10:00 and out right away.
This morning we were up early 6:00 AM for Back Friday shopping, yes we enjoy going out and playing bumper people in the stores.  Our first stop was Fred Meyers for some things for the grand children.  Before I go any further with this I have to say every person that I ran into or bumped into were real polite.  It has to be one of greatest experience of Christmas shopping when you see so many people smiling and saying sorry and have a good day.  Now back to the shopping thing, we found some PJ's for the two girls and a few toys for them also.  I think we are just about done, but I know Cyndy will have to get something else along the way.  That is what makes Christmas so neat, is giving the little ones gifts and watching them open them on Christmas morning.
We spent the rest of the day with Brian & Rita.  The girls were back at sewing and Brian & I were trying to fix the fire place but it need a new regulator for the gas.  So Monday he will call the tech to come out and replace it.  Next we hooked up his new printer and with a little internet looking we got the drivers and had that working.  OK, two things looked at one fixed, hay that is 50% to the good.  Time to quit while at 50%.  It was getting late so we head up to Thriftway for their prime rib dinner.  As always it was good and I made a pig out of myself.  Tomorrow I am going to get two new tires for the trailer and Cyndy wants to do some more shopping over in Astoria.  Another great sunny day in paradise.