Thanksgiving in Sydney

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

After our 2 weekends of travel with the 3-day work week in between, the week leading up to Thanksgiving was a big week of catching up on work. Friday of Thanksgiving week is a long day for me since we cover a 12-hour shift (6am - 6pm) that day. The day was fairly quiet so I was able to leave a bit early. Bernard and I just relaxed on Friday night since we planned to cram a lot into the next day.

Just after waking on Saturday morning, we agreed on the spring cleaning goals for the day. We've had a bit of a bug problem and are not sure why it's taken so long to realize the major role that our ficus tree has been playing. This is the 4th plague visited on us by the tree... 4th!... but we resisted the urge to carry it to the curb. Problem sorted now... we hope. And we scrubbed walls, deep cleaned the couch, sorted and got rid of stuff, vacuumed... all good. We accomplished all of the goals thanks to Bernard who kept going when I had to shift to making our contributions for Thanksgiving dinner -- the perennially popular cranberry-orange relish and sweet potato souffle.

I sure miss spending Thanksgiving with my family but it's good to be able to spend it with friends. The annual dinner is hosted by Shilo, James and their son Connor. It's a lively affair with 17 adults at the table this year and 2 six-year olds wreaking havoc in the background (and under the table). We had a lovely time and then came straight home for a long snooze.