Literally EVERYONE showed up for our Thanksgiving dinner on Thursday. It was ball, but we were running HARD for three days to make it all happen and then to clean up afterwards. This is really the first time we used our new kitchen for a big event. We had twenty seven people there and it went great! We a postmortem on Friday and realized that we did way more work than was necessary and we had way too much food. The turkey was a little dry. We went on and on about the little things that we could do better next time. The new kitchen saved us, but it also created a new problem because that is where everyone just hung out. It was a great learning experience. Next year, we are going to organize the food a LOT better. I am sure we will find more ways to improve next year, too. I think we are going to try to hire someone on Friday to help clean up if we have the money.
On Saturday, we drove to George, Washington for a special meeting of our church. One of our ministers from Mexico who had been in Lorena’s area when she was growing preached and we had a chance to sit and talk to him for a half an hour or so. It was great. We met a whole bunch of new people. The only down side was that we had to miss the second meeting because we were afraid we would get stuck up on Satus Pass on the way home if we did not leave early. It was a pretty good idea. It was little icy on top of the pass at 4:00 PM. It would have been really ugly if we waited until later. There was snow on the ground in Albany when we got up this morning and the Washington and Oregon DOT websites showed lots of snow and ice between here and Yakima.