Yesterday Travalon and I had a very relaxed morning, watching the Macy's Thanksgiving Parade. Travalon's favorite balloon is the Sinclair Dinosaur one, so he collected all his dinosaurs to watch it with him as he wore his Sinclair gear.
We went to the Essen Haus (which currently has no closing date) for Thanksgiving "dinner" for lunch. It was very popular! They had a traditional dinner with turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, dinner rolls, green beans, and cranberry sauce. For dessert they had pecan or pumpkin pie, or apple or cherry strudel; we chose strudel (apple for Travalon and cherry for me) because that seemed more fitting for the setting, and I had already had a slice of pumpkin pie that morning.
It was bitterly cold outside, and the mall was closed, so we walked around the house, then we watched travel videos about Tahiti, and then we went looking at Christmas lights. A lot of them aren't up yet, but we did see a few. More photos soon; they are on Travalon's good camera. Here is a house not too far from us that does it up like this every year.
Then we watched the Packers play the Dolphins at Lambeau. Maybe the frigid weather threw the team from Miami for a loop, because the Packers handily beat them. They handily beat San Francisco last week too, but between Irish class and the Slow Irish Session, I missed the game and had to watch the highlights reel. Speaking of which, if you want your mind blown, watch the highlights reel of the Cowboys vs Commanders game from last week. It starts slowly (at halftime they were 3-3), but in the last three minutes they scored 31 points between them. It was CRAZY!!!
Today Travalon had the day off of work, so I used my last vacation day. We spent a lot of time in the garage, going through bags and boxes of stuff he had brought back from the storage shed, and I found a lot of stuff that I'd wondered about or just forgotten about. Still no sign of my poetry journal, but there were several bags of books that we just brought straight upstairs without going through them, so I still have hope. Then we ran errands, taking our change to the credit union to get cash for Small Business Saturday tomorrow and dropping off a bunch of stuff at Goodwill, where I bought a pair of bluejeans and a pair of black jeans. In the evening Travalon dropped me off at an early music concert while he went to the bookstore, then we both went to Leopold's for their pumpkin spice ice cream drink. It had a brown, star-shaped garnish that I thought was chocolate, but it had the consistency of wood and a strong flavor of anise, so that was a bit of a shock. After that we drove through the Fantasy of Lights. Every year they have some new ones, and here are a few we saw. Of course Blogspot loaded these in the wrong order, so my grand finale is first - the Christmas outhouse!
A polar bear family.
I've never seen this snowman before, although there are plenty of snowmen every year.
Who knew that deer played slots?
This looks like the Sinclair dinosaur with a baby.
This is new - an old-fashioned!
So here's my grand finale - a pink bunny and a major award! It's the leg lamp from
A Christmas Story!
And my contact in Vilnius sent a photo of their Holiday Train.
Looks like a fun ride! If I'm ever in Vilnius around the holidays, I'll have to check it out.
Famous Hat
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