Thanksgiving in Michigan

After 3 and 1/2 hours of driving, we arrived in Kalamazoo, MI with only minutes to spare before a downpour of snow decimated the roadways . We basically holed up with Dan's family for the entire holiday until the snow let up on the day we departed...very convenient. I highly recommend Tuesday travel if at all possible. Our time with family was very enjoyable and quite food friendly. (I'm bringing home a recipe for mashed potatoes that will wow the RAs.) As you can see in the picture above, the boys wrestled with their cousins for pretty much the entirety of their time together. I'm not sure what little girls do, but when you put four boys together it becomes wrestlemania, and when you add an uncle into the mix, life for them becomes nirvana. The down times found our family playing dusty battery consuming games like Hungry, Hungry Hippo and Shark Attack. We played a (new-to-us) 1980s game called Flip the Pancakes, (for children 4-6 years of age) an extreme mind and body challenging game as you can imagine. But the pinnacle of our time in Michigan was the heated water bed that was a true little taste of heaven for private one person naps but a nautical nightmare for evening cohabitation. Dan tried sleeping on the bedframe and I layed awake reminiscing about the Voyage of the Dawn Treader. Tonight we sleep soundly on our queen sized almost-feels-like-your-single mattress. I will miss the heated underside though. It almost thawed my feet.