Kim and I flew back to Connecticut for a week vacation and Thanksgiving. Kim’s friend Effie Tomasio picked us up at the airport in Hartford. We spent the day visiting Old Sturbridge Village in Massachusetts, a village made up to look like they used to in the 1700′s. Effie is planning to have her wedding there in June so we wanted to see the facilities and just do something fun. After we spent a few hours wandering around the village we went back to the house where Effie and her fiance Jack Cahill are living in Southington. Abbey Assunto, Mike Zanetti and Lindsey Matteo both stopped by to visit and tell us all the Southington happenings, and Effie made us fajitas.
Over the next few days we saw a lot of people that Kim has missed. Dan came up from New York to have dinner with us at a Chinese restaurant and hang out. 
. We’re trying to get him to come visit us in Seattle because we think he’d like it a lot.
The next night we went to Steve’s apartment and he and Roslyn cooked us, Jack and Effie, and Megan and Chris dinner at Steve’s apartment. The food was great and after we all ate Chris started a drinking game. The game was each person mixes a drink out of the assortment of alcohol available, and then everyone drinks it. People came up with some surprisingly good drinks considering most of it was totally random concoctions. Kim’s drink was voted best drink of the evening though, but I already can’t remember what she put in it.
Effie and Jack both had to go back to work on Monday, so Kim and I went to visit Darleen, the manager at the soup kitchen where Kim used to volunteer. We went to help out, but there were already more than enough people to help serve and everything. Darleen told us about how great it is to be the ‘cool’ grandma.
One of my favorite parts of the vacation was that we slept in every day. I think we got between 9 and 11 hours of sleep a night and it felt wonderful. Part of it was that was that we were going to bed at a normal hour Eastern time and waking up at a normal hour Pacific time.
Jack and Effie left for Florida on Wednesday so we went to Kim’s grandma’s house to spend some time with family for Thanksgiving. Kim and I walked to her Grandma’s along the old railroad tracks that have been converted into a walking trail.