Thanksgiving Thrills

This week has been pretty nice, being on leave and with Carynn and Stef here from Buffalo. The girls arrived on Tuesday and will stay for 12 days. It is also Thanksgiving week and we all trooped down to Nik's house on Thanksgiving Day which was Thursday for turkey dinner with a bunch of friends. It is always very enjoyable on those occasions. Both husband and wife are good cooks and always serve a wonderful meal.

On Wednesday, we went up to Muir Woods and Stinson Beach where we had a very American lunch with a bunch of houseflies for company and then a long and very winding drive down Pacific Highway 1 ending at Golden Gate Bridge. I managed to get to the South Vista Point where we had the mandatory touristy photo moments. And I made a wrong turn trying to get into the City and ended driving North on the Golden Gate Bridge so had to do a U turn off the Northern Vista Point and paying the $5 bridge toll a second time. Sigh!

And since we were heading home through Frisco, we decided to just thrill the girls by driving down the curviest road in the world at 5 mph. It was already dusk and a little hard to see but the girls gave the expected oohs and ahhs as we slowly crawled down Lombard Street. Then happy that we had done the must-do in downtown San Francisco, we headed home.

Yesterday was Black Friday so of course, we girls had to go shopping. The Man and Half Man would rather stay home and watch TV. Off we went to Walnut Creek with Carynn behind the wheels. There were some good deals - the girls got a lot of shirts and bags from H&M at prices to die for, like $1 and $5 and with a 25% discount to top it all off if you pay before 12 noon. Then to StoneRidge Mall where we went only to Forever 21 which had no sale yet the store was full of people and clothes all over the place. Yet we still found somethings to buy. You do get carried away with the crowd.

So much for Black Friday. We spent the rest of the day pretty much doing nothing with some of us snoozing and the rest cybersurfing. Today is starting late. It is already past 11 and Stef is still in bed and C on the phone as usual talking to her Ox-Town friends. They can talk for hours. Amazing. First Tee lessons for the Half Man ended couple of weeks ago and the second session only starts next week. I wonder what we will do today. Maybe go for a spin on Pacific Highway 1? South this time of course to Santa Cruz and Carmel. But it is already getting late and Stef is still in bed...

And I cannot post the CalHigh marching band video. At 1.2 GB, it is way too big for YouTube. But check out the videos that others had posted.