Cherryl spends most mornings in a fun Rock Steady Boxing class. It’s designed for folks with Parkinson’s; to exercise big motions, cognitive challenges and fun all simultaneously. They do far more than boxing, but that is a big part of it!
Monday they had a Thanksgiving type party, where we spouses were invited to join the fun. It really was fun! Lots of crazy challenges, like balancing a basketball on a 10 pound weight while walking through an obstacle course…
And they even gave us visitors boxing gloves! I felt so powerful!
Three instructors lead the crazy charge – and they are all really fun.
Tuesday night, quite late, Loren, Karen, Ashlyn and Bryan arrived. We’ll have the whole family for Thanksgiving! Yay!
Wednesday we finally got our fence in! Our family had the privilege of watching it get finished! What a great start of the holidays!
Later in the day we went to Lulubee’s Chocolate shop, where Becky works. Great fun, and a bit of a peek at “backstage.”
Then it was time to start doing our own cooking! On Wednesday, we made an apple pie, an apple-berry pie, and two lemon meringue pies. The gals made the crust for me, and I did the lemon pies. Somehow, my lemon pies have become a tradition.
So I’m rather proud of my lemon meringue…
Wednesday night we all went to Zoo Lights, sponsored by Lincoln Electric Services at the zoo. Almost a million lights, some in very creative arrangements.
One area has hundreds of long strings of lights, about 100 per strand. They pulse with the music and the effect is mesmorizing. I wish I could capture the real feeling in video, instead of what I got…
Then it was Thanksgiving Day! So we made more pies!! Ashlyn made the latticework for the apple and apple-berry pies, Dayna did the decoration on the pumpkin and chocolate pies.
We “Enlarged” the tables to seat a few more people…
Then the guests started to arrive…
Uncle Steve always has fun with his photos:
Here’s our little group – 25 for dinner. We fit everyone at two large tables in the living room. We had loads of good food – not just pies! (But adequate pies, certainly.)
After lunch, Laurel had the kids (and others) playing a mass juggling game that had them all laughing.
I was wondering how to keep a bunch of kids busy for a long part of the day. My solution: I bought like 9 appliances from the local Goodwill store. Most all of them came with warnings that they might not work. But no worries: I was just getting them for kids to take apart and see what’s inside! We had great fun!
Quite a variety of things to disassemble…
Those who wanted to learned some things about how gadgets are made, and how different parts work together. And how many very different machines had similar parts inside.
So while most households in America finished the day with scraps of turkey all over, we had a table full of random mechanical parts!
