eandesmom
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HAPPY THANKSGIVING CYNTHIA. Hope dinner with family went fabulous!!!
Thanks Pat! I hope yours was fabulous as well
HAPPY THANKSGIVING CYNTHIA. Hope dinner with family went fabulous!!!
Doesn't it? We need an Ark! It was so soggy 2 days ago I got out my fancy rain boots and wore them to work. It has to be pretty bad for me to wear those into the office, cute as they may be.
Thank you
Well it's good I have Alaska on the outbound then! We have Delta on the return. I am SO happy we are not on United. Have done that the last 2 HI trips, not direct for at least part of it and none of it was very pleasant for a variety of reasons. I am very excited about Aulani.
Jeff has been before and is rather adamant that it's Port Douglas the entire time. We will see about that but we will be at 2 weeks or less as well. I will definitely keep you posted and would love to hear your planning details as well!
Testing is very important! What won? I'm too cheap to offer cocktails, I make everyone bring a bottle of wine. Saves a fortune.
Oh we have wine too but since we're having 12 including the 4 of us... 3 children under the age of 10, 3 senior parents... we don't have that many drinks to make... A combo of bourbon, apple cider and ginger ale won... It was very autumnal tasting...
I am enjoying a lovely "light" eggnog with a little bourbon and nutmeg and DISing by the fire now that the morning's pumpkin roll is made and the pie dough is chilling and the kitchen is clean.
hmmm the eggnog sounds nice... did you doctor up store bought or did you make from scratch... I didn't Dis too much for Thanksgiving and the day after I was in a Turkey/Carb coma... I've got a fire on and am watching the Patrick Stewart version of Christmas Carol...
Well you know that you enabled the SF trip! I was actually looking back at your PM just last night making notes on dining options, I really need to figure out some of our plans. I am so excited for Aulani, it is really lovely to have it to look forward to.
I am always happy to enable traveling... If you want I'll give you my short/medium travel bucket list... and you can enable me... and Aulani is definitely on that list so when you write about that I'm sure I'll be planning a trip there sometime in the next several years...
Thank you Patricia! You too! Are you cooking? I'm assuming so by the cocktail test....
Oh yes I cooked... I am the official Thanksgiving chef... (I really don't mind the cooking...I actually enjoy it... it's the clean up that I don't like...
We settled in with our pizza, I changed into dry clothes, and as we listened to the rain were even more glad we'd not gone out even if it was just to the grocery store.
...but the best part was not going anywhere and just being able to stay in and enjoy the villa.
Except as the night wore on I realized something.
The no see ums seemed to really like the rain.
Really like the big puddles that Id sloshed through 6 times back and forth between groceries and pizza pick up.
Really like my feet.
Which were now covered in teeny tiny bites.
That really really itched. And burned.
I really really did not like it.
At all.
I'm glad we didn't BEST margarita of the trip.
Nor were we motivated to drive anywhere. It wasn't even so much the thought of cooking, it was the not having any ideas of what to make (which seems to happen to me on a regular basis at home...meal planning is the bane of my existence) as much as anything.
His first Mickey Bar! Ever.
At least HE was convinced it was his first. It wasn't and I had photographic proof. He had one on the Wonder the summer before, one that he'd decorated with marshmallows, sauce and sprinkles and had turned quite creepy!
The no see ums seemed to really like the rain.