Thanksgiving Day we are supposed to go to Michel’s sister’s (Eileen) house. She lives near Trenton so without traffic it is at least a 2 hour drive. But the weather was awful (pouring rain and brisk winds) so we expected more than 2 hours. As usual, we are late getting out of the house so we don’t get started until about 1:30 PM. After a quick stop at Starbuck’s, Michel gets a phone call from her mom. The hospital is springing her dad so we need to pick him up and bring him home. We turn around to head for home to get the van since the Volvo can’t hold six people. So finally we get off towards Brooklyn. The traffic is not cooperating. There is a huge accident on the LIE which is causing an hour delay. So finally we get to Brooklyn, pick up Michel’s mom and dad, take them home, and then head to New Jersey. We finally got to Eileen’s house around 6:00 PM. They had lots of good food and good company. Mikey was very well behaved. He has a new game that he loves so we played that. He watched SpongeBob on his portable DVD so that everyone else could watch football. We stayed overnight and left there around noon on Friday. It took us less than 2 hours to get home which is a record.

Saturday we went into Brooklyn to see Michel’s dad. Michel wanted to check his medications to make sure the hospital didn’t screw anything up. I took a picture of myself while I was there that I will post in another blog entry. Sunday we went to Ikea and bought new chairs and I took Beth and her friend Irene shopping for CDs. A busy but good weekend.