"Black Friday" Weekend

"Black Friday" is traditionally the day after Thanksgiving when so many people shop and spend money that stores "go into the black" because they make a profit. While not going out on Friday and braving way too many people, we did go to a local mall on Saturday to see their decorations.

Although busy, parking spots were not hard to find and stores weren't stuffed full of people.

Although hard to see, the center of the mall is set up to duplicate "The Polar Express" movie with various scenes and characters from the movie (there was a kid walking around in a conductor's uniform and assorted other characters), as well as the traditional spot for talking with Santa and getting pictures taken.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Dave & I spent Thanksgiving together and had quite the spread; he also did 99% of the cooking!

The turkey (all 23 pounds of it) before it went in the roaster. I forgot to get a picture of it after it was cooked (5 1/2 hours later) before it was carved!

An Early Thanksgiving

Yesterday (Sunday) we went over to Dave's sister's in Ft. Worth to celebrate an early "family" Thanksgiving.

Cher's daughter Hope and Hope's boyfriend Jeremy...



Cher's daughter Cortney with her boyfriend Seth...



Dave with Christian (Seth & Cortney's son)...



Dave with his grand-nephew...

Co-Workers

Here are some pictures of my co-workers from the state, and my boss...

Capitol Tour

While in Austin (once again), my class was offered the chance to take a tour of the state capitol not normally offered to the public. Hopefully the pictures have captured some of the spectacularness of the building.

Hamming It Up...

Can you tell we had too much time while at a local Walgreen's???? They don't show, but there are lights flashing on both the reindeer ears and the Christmas tree :=)

Halloween Party

AnnElise threw her annual Halloween bash, which included a fantastic bonfire out on their property.



Dave & me...



Dave & me with AnnElise (she held the camera out in front of us for this pose)...



Dave & me with Steve Bloomquist (whom I met several years ago through AnnElise and who is a fellow pilot; he claimed he was a monkey but the ears sure looked like mouse ears!)



Bobby and AnnElise...





Some other partygoers...