Happy Thanksgiving!

Hey all! Now this is a really late blog entry. Sorry about that! This past week has been a blur of traveling, seeing family, and eating. We spent Thursday with my parents who have been hosting a Thanksgiving dinner for the last forty-six years or so. There were thirty-seven of us in all including four babies under a year old. Brenda and I don't get to go every year because of the nature of her career, so we were thrilled that it worked out this year. We certainly had a lot to be thankful for, not least of which was all the delicious food (including lefse - yum!).

By all accounts Brenda's last performance of Lulu was excellent. After putting in so much time and effort learning and rehearsing this difficult piece, it's too bad they didn't have more than five performances. Hopefully Brenda and her castmates will have the opportunity to sing it again someday. 

Our flight back to the midwest on Sunday was quite pleasant. Rowan was the only baby on the plane, and now that he's a little bit older he didn't sleep as much as on previous flights. He made friends with the people sitting around us, and most of them were surprised to learn that it was his eighth flight. He fussed a little bit during the flight, but he never cried, and he was very happy when I walked up and down the aisles with him. He'll have four more flights before his first birthday, three of which cross the Atlantic. We're hoping our little guy continues to be a happy traveller.

This weekend we're visiting Drew in Minneapolis, and on Tuesday we're off to Wisconsin to see Brenda's parents. Rowan is loving seeing so many of his family and friends in the U.S. We thought he might get a little overwhelmed by all the people on Thanksgiving, but he was relaxed and smiley the whole day and still managed to take his usual naps in spite of all of the happy commotion. We will probably be late with the blog again this week, but I'll try to get it up before the weekend. We hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving. Until next time, have a great week!