So it seems that after a massive silence every 2 months there is a flurry of activity on the blog. Sorry about that, things just get a little crazy. We're going to break up this weekend's post into several smaller, more easily readable ones.
So here's the first one, involving our Turkey Day. Katie’s Dad, Mike, came out to visit from Portland, Oregon (pronounced "orygun" to all you East Coast readers). As you can see, Mike brought with him, a very yellow jacket, we took a picture of him in front of a cool yellow mural in Park Slope, Brooklyn to achieve this little picture we like to call "Sunburst." That crazy Mike. He also got the crazy idea to rent a car and drive 4 hours upstate to Cooperstown, NY to see the Baseball Hall of Fame. Why Cooperstown? It is where baseball's rules were officially codified, according to legend. Anyway, Katie had to be at school, so it was just Mike and me. We had a great drive up, very picturesque. We are both big baseball fans and thoroughly enjoyed ourselves at the museum (click here for more pictures). It was pretty neat to see all the memorabilia from 100 years of baseball. One of my favorite parts was the wall of baseball cards where they had some legendary cards: Mickey Mantle, Lou Gehrig, Willie Mays, Ty Cobb, and a rare Honus Wagner tobacco card from 1909. My brother and I both collected baseball cards in elementary school, and some of those cards enjoy a status of mythical proportions in my memory.
On Thanksgiving itself, I cooked a 17-lb. turkey (4th year running) and the stuffing and Katie did all the other fixin’s, her famous green bean casserole, for example, among others. We had lots of great food, some good beer on hand (including Brooklyn Lager, of course!) and good company, including our neighbors Keith and Katia who came over for dessert. It was really great to have some family here, especially since no one from Katie’s side has visited for about three years. While Katie was in school, Mike and I hit some museums, walked the Brooklyn Promenade, ate the best pizza in New York (in Brooklyn!) according to the Zagat survey, and probably watched parts of a million football games. The three of us played monopoly Thanksgiving morning, and also went to the Brooklyn museum and Botanic garden. With all the walking everywhere while he was here, he said it was like an "excercise vacation." In spite of all the walking, it was nice to relax a bit before Katie started the final push of her semester.
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