What I Did for Thanksgiving

We went to my parents' house in North Georgia for Thanksgiving. We left on Saturday the 17th and returned on Friday the 23rd. The Day After Thanksgiving turned out to be a good day to fly. Even though we flew in and out of Atlanta, the curb check in was a breeze, as was security. Mind you, they seemed to be checking everything. There just didn't seem to be many folks flying. The airplane was MAYBE half full -- for a direct flight to Seattle!

What's with the dearth of food on Delta nowadays? A 5 hour flight served up a 2 packs of (2) cookies, 2 packs of crackers with cheese spread, a mini box of raisins, and 2 drinks. "Snack" used to mean a sandwich, chips, and cookies. We learned on the way out (nearly starving, except for the last minute banana bread I threw into the backpack.) So we took sandwiches for the return flight and ate a big breakfast.

There was a surreal moment on the outbound flight when they were playing "Mr. Bean's Holiday" on the movie screen: the segment I watched was in French (not counting the incoherent mumbling of Mr. Bean) and subtitled in Spanish. It was absolutely brilliant. Not the movie. I mean, realizing the movie was in French and subtitled in Spanish for a primarily English speaking flight. The movie itself didn't interest me enough to crane my neck over the seat in front to watch, so I returned to my book, "The Golden Compass".

There are anecdotes from the trip. More later. Today's subject, for the moment, is the fun of helping our daughter put together a book and photos to present to her class of her week-long vacation to Georgia. Frank though it up this morning and got her started. Then I took over supervision, helping her spell the captions for each of the pictures she drew of whatever stood out in her mind from the trip. We folded printer paper down the middle booklet style with two pictures per spread. We took a long thin rubber band and looped it round the middle of the stack as a binding. The photo album we were going to use for the photographs we printed (she chose the ones to print) had too-small photo sleeves, so we labeled the photos on the backs and put them in a plastic bag to keep them together. She was so excited. It took a while to assemble it, but it was so much fun. I hope the class presentation went well. I'm sure I'll soon know. Time to get an idler assembly for the dryer and pick her up. She can tell me how it went while I fix the dryer.