I'm super thankful that I have family in driving distance (sort of)! This thanksgiving since plane tickets anywhere would be absolutely outrageous and we can't take the pups on a plane, we decided to road trip it down to San Francisco. It's the first Thanksgiving that all of my siblings live in SF now and they were all staying in town for the holidays, so we got to join them! We left bright and early (actually dark and early at 4am) to start driving down. We left with perfect time to miss all the rush hours in the big cities on the way. We made it into Walnut Creek just before Kimberly got home and just in time for supper for the night.
Welcome to California!
Our road trippers.
Thanksgiving morning we got up bright and early for our second bi-annual family turkey trot! Some how it managed to be the only morning that it rained, but we warmed up and it dried up while we ran. It's such a great was to start a day that's you're going to spend the rest of it eating!
Turkey Trotters (Lance wasn't feeling well so he passed this one up)
We spent the rest of the day watching football, eating snacks, and preparing for the big feast later that day.
The feast
The feasters
Eventually we busted out the desserts and spent the rest of the night picking at leftovers and playing some hard core apples to apples.
Friday we spent the whole day watching football, playing with puppies, eating leftovers, and playing more games.
Saturday we headed into the city bright and early to watch some more football at Jordan and Kristen's apartment. We started out with the Michigan/Ohio State game where Michigan pulled out a huge win!! It was awesome. Uncle Tom and Aunt Leslie were in town visiting Eric and Melissa too, so they all came over for the game too. It was another full house of family football fans! Right after that we switched over to the Auburn/Alabama game. Not quite as positive of an outcome, but still a great game. War Eagle!
Jordan and Kristen's Street
Football Fans!
After all the football watching we went for a little walk down the street to a park by the water to let the dogs stretch their legs, and quite honestly to get a little exercise for all of us who have been siting around eating all week! Shortly after we decided to hit the road back to Seattle. We wanted to miss all the Sunday traffic so we left around 5 Saturday night and drove through the night. Thank goodness for our Hunger Games audio book which kept us alert most of the night.
Walk in the park
Goodbye San Francisco!
We got back to Seattle at 6am which turned out to be just in time to miss all the closed roads and traffic from the Seattle Marathon which was starting a couple hours later! After a quick nap we headed over to the house for a little more work. Although it might have been a little more productive for us to work at the house over the holidays, it was so nice to spend it with family instead, and we had such a great time in the bay area. I can't wait to go back again!!
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