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Thanksgiving Re-Cap

We did something a little different this year for Thanksgiving.  Since we weren't hosting either side of our families at our home this year, we gladly accepted the invitation to spend the holiday in Rochester Hills, Michigan with some VERY dear friends of ours!!  What a joy! 

They had a house-full and, I believe, there was only one other person there who wasn't family, besides us.  We felt very honored to have been invited and we had an AWESOME time!  They even went to all the trouble of "de-cat-ifying" their home so that my dh and dd#2 wouldn't be bothered with their allergies to cats. 

Friday morning, they took dh and I out to a great little place for breakfast - I had a Greek omlet; it had tomatoes, spinach and feta cheese!  WOW!  "Yummy" can't even begin to describe it!     Then, my dear friend Beth and I walked over to a shopping center where they had a complete whole foods grocery!  OH, how I would LOVE to have something like that here!  I could have roamed those isles all day.

Something a little curious about that area though ~ In most of the NICER neighborhoods there the roads are dirt/mud roads!  I kid you not!  We're talking areas with mansions and McMansions, here!  Once, when they had first moved to the area, there were terrible, DEEP pot-holes on a certain section of road and my friend, Beth, called the raod dept. to report it and she made the "mistake" of saying that the problem was on one of the "dirt roads."  The woman on the other end said, "You mean a gravel road." 

"No, it's a dirt road." 

This road dept. lady actually argued with Beth about it being a GRAVEL road!  Well, as Beth told her - and ANYONE in the area is a witness to - THERE IS NO GRAVEL!!  They ARE totally DIRT AND MUD!!    But, nooooooooooo.  According to the lady at the road dept., that's not MUD that's sticking to your car, it's "RESIDUAL DIRT"!!  GIVE ME A BREAK!!  IF there's ANY gravel in those raods, it's buried UNDER ALL THE MUD!!!  Yikes!  I am just stunned that these cruddy roads are only in the nicest areas.  Their (incredibly high) tax dollars at work.  Go figure.

But we had SO much fun with our dear friends.  It was just far too short.  I miss them more everytime we part.

Hope you had a great Thanksgiving and took the time to remember the TRUTH of the day and to truly give thanks to God for all of His gracious blessings in our lives.

Blessings from Ohio, Kim Wolf<><