Thanksgiving 2004
Wednesday
kirinqueen
and I drove from San Diego to her parents' timeshare at Big Bear
Lake, a 6 hour trip which should
have taken 2 and a half. The traffic on I-15 was especially
bad. We arrived just a few minutes before
kirinqueen's
parents, checked in, and played some board games with her sister
Jennifer before bed.
Thursday
Thursday was quite uneventful.
kirinqueen,
her mother, and I went for a scenic drive around the lake.
Since kirinqueen's
other sisters weren't going to be there until Friday night, we
postponed Thanksgiving dinner until Saturday. Instead we had a
wonderful batch of homemade chili for dinner. The rest of our
time on Thursday was divided between conversation, reading, and
watching entirely too much television.
Friday
kirinqueen
building a snowman
Friday was a very lazy, leisurely day. Our time was split
between walking, throwing snowballs at each other, snowman
construction, the insidious, irresistible Law & Order
marathon, eating, drinking, and board games. kirinqueen
made her first snowman ever:
After her sisters Laura and Audrey showed up (with Audrey's husband Tom), the women had lots of fun playing board games while Tom, Mark, and I talked politics over beer.
Saturday
After a leisurely morning of snowball fights and snowman
construction, kirinqueen,
her sister Laura, and I went horseback riding.
kirinqueen
& sisters, making a snowwoman
It was really really really ridiculously cold out, and I neglected to bring a sweatshirt. Fortunately, one of the workers at the stables loaned me a poofy warm vest thing which kept me warm during the ride. Blackjack, the horse I was riding, didn't find it in himself to throw me off, which was about all I could ask for, given that I'd never ridden a horse before.
We had Thanksgiving dinner immediately upon our return to the
timeshare. A large snowstorm was approaching, so we decided to
leave after dinner so as to minimize the risk of being stuck on
the mountain with kirinqueen's
rather small car. But everyone else on the mountain was thinking
the same thing, so it took two hours to drive the 20 or so miles
to the bottom, and then another two hours to make it from San
Bernardino to Fullerton. After grabbing a late supper at
Islands, we went to bed.