THANKSGIVING IN ALASKA.....
I was thinking today that this is the first Thanksgiving in years and years and years-I can't remember when, if ever-that I have not shared Thanksgiving with family. But thanks to Melanie and Chris Kimmery, I had a really great Thanksgiving 2007!
I woke up at 3 am so I could call and wish Mike a Happy Thanksgiving before he went to work...then I talked to him about 8:30 pm Texas time....he spent his Thanksgiving all by himself (after he got off work)! But, he decided it was really good to have time to get some things done around the farm so he didn't really regret it. I sure missed his fabulous pumpkin pie!!!!
I talked to Mom early in the day and then Skyped around noon Texas time. I got to see the newest family member, Kaydon, but the fam apparently thought he was the only one I was interested in seeing because the call ended pretty much after I saw him!!! I think they were hungry!
Rusty and Kaeli were apparently deer hunting and I never even try to catch up with the Quinones-their lives are way to hectic to try to figure out where they are in time to call!
I spoke with Mindy and Brandon at the end of the day and heard all about Brandon's preparation of Thanksgiving dinner in New Zealand-sounds like they had a great one and the pregnant mommy enjoyed it!
I went to the Kimmery's along with Shelley Rodgers, another traveler. They have a beautiful home in Wesilla, about an hour commute from Anchorage! Melanie and Chris put together a great Thanksgiving meal with all the traditional favs. We spent the afternoon surrounded by the wonderful smells of dinner cooking while the three of us- Melanie, Shelley, and me- made necklaces from Shelley's extensive collection of beautiful beads! Chris did some manly thing outside in the cold that involved power tools and such and required that the caulk be thawed out before he could finish (you should see the home entertainment peice he built-awesome!).
It was a wonderful day and, even though I was not with the family, I discovered at the end of it that I had been too busy and having too much fun to be homesick or sad-although I do miss you guys!!!
4 comments:
seems it's not too bad to spend thanksgiving in alaska, but lucky me spend my thursday with family then by the ocean, it's so warm here like summer but gotta be back to fridge soon. how's the weather there? getting colder?
btw i live in bethel.ooooppppsss forgot to say happy (late)thanksgiving :-)
Happy Thanksgiving to you also, Keith! It's cold, cold, cold here. Minus 5-6 getting up to 6 by noon today is the forecast! Everyone praying for snow so it will warm up some....if I'm gonna be this cold I would like a little snow served up with it! Do you know Leanne and Gary (forgot the last name)-she was working in Bethel as a nurse practitioner, they just moved up here (see the link to pictures of Gary's birthday!). Glad you are with family and enjoying the warm!
Abernathy!!! That's Leann's last name!
well so im livin in heaven then it's 20f now and raining, not too bad.
nope dunno leanne, it's not long we moved here, gonna ask my wife, may be she knows :)
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