Thanksgiving

HAPPY THANKSGIVING TO EACH AND EVERY ONE OF YOU!

It was sad not spending the day with our family back in Salem, but we had a fun day with our "extended" Queen Valley family.  Since we spend so much time here, it feels more like home than our actual home does, and all the residents here are our "extended" family.  This is our tenth year here, but only the last 7 or so has been on a long term basis.....many of our friends have been coming down longer than that.

Our resort held a group Thanksgiving "pot luck" dinner and had several tables set up seating 12 at each table.  Each table was an individual "family" gathering and folks at their table were responsible for the food only at that table.  The activities department of the park gave each table a contribution ($$) towards the expense of what ever meat that was being prepared; then each person at their table brought something to complement the meat (we had Turkey and ALL the trimmings...Yum).

With all the great cooks here, it makes it very hard to not put on tons of weight..... but who cares on Thanksgiving--right?  Anyhow this is the day to count your blessing and be thankful for all you have......and we did!!  We were very thankful that we were able to walk (not waddle or roll) our way back to the coach after eating (grin).  However, we really thank God for each other, our health, and the great health of our friends and loved ones.

The two pictures below only show two of the many tables which were occupied.  Our table is the first one, and as you can see, all were enjoying eating and visiting.

     

After being in the high 70s for the last week, we had rain and even some thunder yesterday.  We were hit with the storm that was coming in from California.  Today we had some sun, some rain, and even a bit of hail, and the temps topped out in the high 60s.  But, it turned out to be a very pleasant day!  This weekend it is supposed to snow in the higher altitudes, but we are hoping it will be clear when we begin heading home for Christmas.  We plan on leaving here around the 4th or 5th and back in Salem around the 10th.

Again, we hope all of you had as nice of a Thanksgiving as we did!