Thanksgiving

We came back to Colorado Springs from Westcliffe on the Tuesday before Thanksgiving. Got our RV out of storage and re-set up and took care of some errands like getting groceries.

The next day we made a visit to my Grandmothers apartment and spent lunchtime and the afternoon with her. I helped with a couple of items around the house and we visited. We also went to a game room and let the kids play some air-hockey and work on a puzzle that had been left out. It was a good time to be able to sit with her without too many distractions and she got to show off her grand kids to her friends.

Thanksgiving was spent at my parents apartment. Grandma came too and so did my sister and brother-in-law from Westcliffe. She and my daughter made the traditional Thanksgiving dinner while the parade was on (We cut the cable cord a long time ago and don't get to many movies so out of the huge list of "stars" I think I only knew the Muppets and Santa Clause). Football games on TV and lots of visiting consumed the rest of the day.

Friday we went over to my aunt and uncles house and had a great lunch of lasagna and meatballs and sausage. My parents, sister and brother-in-law, and grandmother were also there. We spent the afternoon in their basement with the local Air Force Academy football game on the TV and playing games. They have a pool table with a ping-pong or air-hockey insert so that was in use and there were also several other skill games being attempted.

My kids have worked up a routine to be able to show off their Rifle Drill skills, so they performed for our family in the back yard. They did a good job and all were impressed.

 Saturday, my family along with my aunt and uncle, took a drive to Denver to a Colorado history museum. We really wanted to spend some time with my cousin and his new wife and finally meet there son but scheduling conflicts prevented them from being able to come down for the holiday so we met them half way and spent time in the museum and having lunch and walking around the 16th street mall in downtown Denver. Their son had just recently turned one and my daughter really wanted to hold and play with him so we are glad that this worked out.

 

The Kids got another chance to hang out with their new Civil Air Patrol friends from the squadron that we have been visiting. They were having a fun night that was being spent at an indoor Go-Cart track.

Son in front, Daughter right behind.

The next week was all about car and RV repairs, and chores, and getting some school done. We did meet with some friends of ours that we knew from high school and college and had fun reminiscing about old times (oh glory days). On Sunday we spent the day with my parents and did some packing. The temperatures were getting colder over the last week and it was getting more difficult for the RV to keep from freezing it's pipes once the temperatures got down into the teens at night, and we were often dropping to single digits overnight. The forecast was also showing a huge cold front coming for the next week so it was time to say goodbye to Colorado. We are scheduled to be in Mesa AZ by the 14th of Dec. but didn't have concrete plans for what to do in between. We thought about Tucson, and even decided on Las Vegas, but ultimately went somewhere else.

Needed to get out of town before more of this happened.