Thanksgiving

We made our annual pilgrimage down to Bakersfield for Thanksgiving again this year. We never learn and always think it'll be relaxing to be down there and do nothing. Wrong!

As soon as we got there, I was weeding in the backyard for hours since daddy is getting old and never gets time off from the busy restaurant hours. While Jean baby-sat in the house.As for dinner that night, we ate in at home with food we brought down from the Bay Area. It's our version of turkey.
For the last few years, we have gone out to Black Angus Steakhouse for dinner since that's the only place open on Turkey day. But since last year, we've learned and here's why...
Then on Friday, we were "recruited" to help setup Ben's (brother-in-law) new dental office. Hard to believe that he is about to open on Tuesday and there's not even curtain or wires yet. We helped from moving a refrigerator and washer/dryer (don't ask..) to opening boxes and boxes of expensive dental equipments.
On Saturday, we were up at 8AM to meet the contractors. While they worked on getting the wires in, we put up about 20 some Redi-Shade temporary curtains.

Yeah, that's pretty much our Thanksgiving... Oh, somewhere in between all that, I was able to play some Wii that we brought down and got myself up to Pro status in tennis, yay!
On the way back on Sunday, it was a bit scary when we got onto I-5. Below is what we saw for about 45 minutes at 0 mph before traffic mysteriously started to flow again.
Here's link to the rest of the 15 so pictures on Flickr.

Whew, can't wait to go back to the office next week...