A Great Holiday Weekend

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I hope you all had a great Thanksgiving and are enjoying the weekend.  Ours started our with a real blessing.  I was packing the car for our trip short trip to Fairfax and over the sand dunes I could see the sun bouncing off the early morning clouds:

Pretty glorious way to start the day!

We picked up Kelly and her dog Ed and joined the morning traffic flow up to Washington DC.  It was a little busier than I expected, but we made good time and arrived just before noon.

Adam got off work a little before 3:00 PM so Kelly and I picked him up and drove out to Royce's.

Later, we the cooking in the kitchen was well underway:

While the home made rolls were getting done, I snapped the traditional holiday empty table photo.

Then the turkey came out of the oven.  Tiffany tried a brine of apple cider, salt, herbs ...

Next, the ToFurkey was prepared for Adam, the vegan in the group.  Given the two, I prefer the turkey

Adam and Kelly and Aaron were taking pictures of the pictures...

Amy and Jon (Jeff's brother) arrived with baby Lucas and we got to hang out...

Jeff carved up the turkey

Emily mashed the potatoes

and we all gathered at the table.

It was a tremendous feast and we almost hurt ourselves!  But what are Thanksgivings for?  It seemed like the right thing to do at the time...

It was really good and we cleaned up the kitchen, sat around awhile and decided we needed a 'formal' group shot for the occasion.

We had fun and thoroughly enjoyed being together!

Now for some serious football watching and more time with Adam before we head back to the Virginia Beach area.

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