Thanksgiving

The big news is that after baking a pumpkin pie, making pumpkin soup and giving a bag of pumpkin flesh to a friend we have now run out of pumpkin!

I took thanksgiving week off to recharge my batteries and use some leave up. I had a lazy time playing on the computer, editing videos and uploading them to YouTube. For my birthday we went to the cinema and then to one of our favourite restaurants for dinner and proper beer.

On Thanksgiving day we got up early for Helen to run in a 10k event and then after freshening up at home we went into DC. Unfortunately pretty much everything in DC closed but we did manage to find lunch at Baja Fresh a Mexican takeaway. After lunch we went to the National Geographic Museum for the terracotta army exhibition which was smaller than I was expecting but sill remarkable and impressive. In the evening we had our own version of Thanksgiving dinner and collapsed on the sofa after our busy day.

This week just gone saw me abandoning Helen and heading back to the UK for a few days. I didn't manage to get any decent rest on the plane or during the week I was away and on top of that I had the beginning of a cold. On the bright side though I managed to see Judy and the kids for one evening which although brief was fun. We exchanged Christmas presents and I got to see Paul do his karate although I think I may have been a bit of a distraction.

As I type this it has started snowing but is yet too damp and warm to pitch on the swamp.