11-25 Thanksgiving in California

Sue and I flew out to Sacramento on the evening of Nov. 23rd, a Tuesday. Tim and Ann picked us up at 10pm at the airport - it was a very long flight from DC - we'd been on the road for 17 hours. We stayed with Ann and Tim from the 24th to the 27th. On Wednesday, they took us up to Napa to visit the tasting room of the fellow who makes the wines they like a lot. I bought some bottles for Thanksgiving dinner - really good wine. On our morning walks in the Davis Greenbelt, Tim showed us the wild turkey flock that lives there.











On Thursday we went to Thanksgiving dinner at the Burns home - Tim and Ann cooked the turkey and other items, Sue did some pies, Kate and Erik added all the extra goodies. It was a good dinner. The pictures here are of Uncle Tim with his nephews, forming a "Burns sandwich"; Ann with Sean's fox; the dinner photo that unfortunately did not have Ann in it; and boys, boys, boys.

On Friday we went to "Brew it Up" with Tim and a group of OddFellows that Tim organizes to brew two batches of beer. Great fun to see my boy embrace brewing after all the noise about my brewing when he was small.

On Saturday we visited the Davis Farmers Market and did some Christmas and other shopping in Davis







On Sunday we went to Church in Davis and borrowed Tim's car to drive over to Kate and Erik's. We stayed there until we left on Wednesday, went to the boy's Karate class, saw the school they go to part time, and generally just hung out with the Burns family. I tired to finish reading James and the Giant Peach to the boys, but didn't quite make it.













When we flew home, it was late when we got in and we took a taxi home - that worked out pretty well and was a whole lot cheaper than parking the car. Great trip, great visit.