Thanksgiving From Maryland

We celebrated Thanksgiving in Maryland this year and it was great!!! Cindy cooked a ton of food everyday,not just for the main meal. We all gained about 10 pounds in the 4 days we were there. We had such a good time being with family and seeing the sights of Maryland.

We ate a huge lunch then the girls went for a walk in the neighborhood. Just as Cindy and I had settled down in the recliners to watch a movie they called--too far from home to walk back, they were cold and scared. Now this was from the 23 year old. The young one wasn't worried at all so anyway we had to go pick them up. We then had another turn at eating all the food Cindy had cooked (still couldn't see the bottom of the bowls) then staggered to the sectional and played Scene it. It was about Disney movies and we found out who had spent a lot of time watching movies. It wasn't me, Shirley or Cindy for sure!!! Rod didn't do so great either. Leah, Haley, Kristen and Archie were the experts. Larry was dozing and he only offered anwers when we woke him up.

On Friday we went to see Haley play lacrosse and it was so cold, only in the low 40's and the wind was blowing so hard. We then had lunch in downtown Annapolis and then went to the Naval Academy. We got there late so we only got to see a small portion of it but it was on the water and the view at sunset was awesome. Then we split up into shoppers and non-shoppers.

Larry took the non-shoppers (Haley, Shirley and Archie) back home. Rod and I followed Cindy, Leah and Kristen to this huge mall that must of had a million people there and we shopped at Bass Pro while they hit the sales. Rod and I made it about 45 minutes and I was calling Larry for directions home. We were smart enough to have our own ride. The real shoppers came home about 2 hours later.

The next day we got up early and went to the Steven Udar-Hazy Airplane Museum in Chantilly Va. It is part of the Smithsontian Musuem and it is filled with airplanes. Rod and Archie were in heaven. Thankfully there was a Mcdonalds in the museum so Shirley and I could take a break when we were overcome by all the planes!!! After about 4 hours of plane sightings we headed back to Cindy's where she had us another meal cooked. Cindy and Larry had rescued the girls from a day with the airplanes by taking them to Baltimore for lunch and sightseeing. They really enjoyed but it was still really cold.

Cindy sent us off with a homecooked breakfast and we hit the road about 10:00 am. It took almost 9 hours to get home because of slow moving traffic but Thank You God for the safe trip.

We stopped for an emergeny bathroom break for Leah, a fuel stop and supper where we split from Archie and Shirley because we had to take the girls to Leah's apartment. We are so thankfully to Cindy, Larry and Haley for their graciousness in sharing their home with us and being the absolutely best host and hostesses in the world. We want to book another trip to the Fila Bed and Breakfast real soon!!!