A Journal, with Pictures

Spring Island from the Cottage

The fam­i­ly start­ed gath­er­ing at the Chechessee cot­tage on the Mon­day before Thanks­giv­ing with Jen­nifer, Mike, and Alexan­dra arriv­ing from Flori­da. Tues­day Caitlin and Kin­sey arrived with Gil and Joyce and Hei­di, Gary and Brenn com­plet­ed the gath­er­ing Thanks­giv­ing morn­ing. Thanks­giv­ing day was typ­i­cal with lots of activ­i­ties, start­ing with some work­ing out at Spring Island, games, cook­ing, eat­ing, addi­tion­al games, foot­ball watch­ing, more eat­ing, more games, talk­ing, relax­ing, more eat­ing, more cook­ing, giv­ing Thanks and then feast­ing. It was a great Thanks­giv­ing day sur­round­ed by sev­er­al days of fam­i­ly fun.

Black Fri­day activ­i­ties start­ed with exer­cise for every­body with some head­ing to the gym and oth­ers enter­ing the 5K at Spring Island. Once that was done we resumed the eat­ing, games, foot­ball watch­ing Mis­souri won big, and there was some shop­ping. Gary left to coach his foot­ball team, who are in the play­offs. All but Gary went to the Oys­ter Roast at Spring Island for dinner.