Happy Thanksgiving!

I know I'm a little late posting this. We drove out to Cincinnati to celebrate Thanksgiving this year while stopping over for a night in Pittsburgh on the way. We left here on Tuesday night. The snow was coming down hard and the roads were really bad. The first hour or so of our drive was pretty bad. Then there was a gas leak in Murrysville, so we had to take a small detour. It ended up taking us about 3 hours to get to my parents house. I'm so glad we didn't try to go straight to Cincinnati from here in that weather.

After our rest in Pittsburgh, we headed out to Cinci around 9:30am on Wednesday. Clear skies and dry roads the entire way. Paige was a trooper. She only napped for about half an hour, but we listened to her music and kept her entertained most of the way. We stopped for lunch in Zanesville and then a stop for gas a little while after that. You won't believe how much we paid for gas... $1.45/gallon!!! We made it to Cinci by about 3:30pm.

Our first Thanksgiving celebration was that evening at Grandpa and Grammy's house. There were 20+ people that attended and it was great to see everyone. Usually we only get to see that side of the family at Christmas time. Paige behaved very well. She was a bit shy at first and took a little while for her to warm up, but she eventually did.

The next big feast was on Saturday afternoon at Nama and Pop's house. Paige loved all the dogs and even got to ride in a cart pulled by one of the Berners. Again there were probably about 20+ people there too that we only usually see once a year.

The ride home on Sunday took a lot longer. This time we drove straight from Cinci back to our house to save some time by bypassing Pittsburgh. I'm not convinced it saved us all that much time. We left before 10am, but didn't get back to our house until about 7:30pm. It rained most of our drive and we made several rest stops to get out and stretch. Paige went through about 4 movies and was still getting pretty antsy. At one point, when we were in a standstill in traffic she started acting up and I gave her the santa claus warning. Told her that he knew when she was naughty and when she was nice. So she stopped crying and told me that she was all done being naughty. It was really cute. This is going to be a fun Christmas!