No Turkey, Lots of Gobble

We had a great 4-day retreat out to the cabin over Turkey day but it was a very non-traditional Thanksgiving affair.  Just us turkeys.

Our friends Dan & Val were on their way out for the weekend on Wednesday evening and their car broke down in route, so they had to bail, but it didn't keep us from heading out to make it happen.  We stopped at the pass for a few hours of playtime-- K and I, that is, while A studied -- then we headed into the Leavenworth for a nice dinner somewhere.  Surprised that the town wasn't abuzz but we did have options and settled on the most traditional of the bunch and it was a great place for a Thanksgiving away from home.

The weather was perfect: either full-on snowing of it was a perfect blue sky!  Cold but not too cold, nice and crisp.  So nice to have an extended stay at the cabin and I look forward to a couple 3+ day visits this winter. 

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Same Kit, Different Race

 These were all taken this weekend at the SCX Enumclaw race.  

Holler "Weenie"

I just wanted to get that off my chest and BabyCakes is my forum for this kind of thing.

Okay, Kiki!  We had some big plans to get all gussied up in our cowboy finest for Halloween: Kian was going as, yep, a cowpoke, and I was going to be his horse.  If Annie had time on the big night she'd have to go as a damsel in distress, of course.  I already have this big old horse head hat, and so I was going to suit up our Ute bike as the horse body and we were going to hit up the local neighborhoods and rake it in with plans to fill up the front basket and both panniers with loads of candy.  We were going to ride into this town like a tornado, take our spoils and then ride off into the sunset with sachels full of high fructose gold!

Well, forecast was for continued major rain showers and so we decided to revise our plans.  I found Kian a great skeleton suit that he was stoked on so we went with that.  Annie went as a spooky black sort of witch and I found the perfect long black trenchcoat for cheap, put on my black stompers and mirrored sunglasses, slicked back my hair and so I was obviously straight out of Matrix: I think I made a pretty good whiteboy Neo although I would have preferred to go as Morpheus.  We started late but made up for lost time by hitting the same great neighborhood in Greenlake that treated us so well last year. 

Depressing that we have absolutely zero pics of Annie or I, but I managed to click a few off of Kian before we hit the trick or treat trail.