Thanksgivings

Thanksgivings have a lot in common, there's the turkey and stuffing and autumn colored table cloths, but the number of people change, hair styles change, the sides change and the conversations change. This year everyone had lost power due to Super Storm Sandy and at the top of everyone's list of things to be thankful for was electricity. I know the pilgrims did Thanksgiving without it, but I don't want to try. Three nights were enough.

2012 Table

2010 Table

2009 Table

2011 Carved Turkey

2010 Turkey

2007 Turkey

2005 Scared Puppy

Past Trips

I'm a list maker, things I've done, things I want to do, items I need at the store, my favorite being the liquor store followed up closely by hardware stores.
So here are a list of places we've been on vacation, of which we don't get enough of in this country.
Some trips have links to Past Trip posts, older trips were before we had a digital camera and our scanner is very temperamental and tedious to use. Some trips I have not written up yet. A few years we did day trips or we had a qualified family status change and so I have left those years blank. We are good with saving, we don't need to have every new gadget and we don't do many weekend trips, though that may change in the future and having two people working good paying jobs don't hurt either.

1. 1984 - New England
2. 1984 - St. Thomas, Windward Passage
3. 1985 - First Florida Disney Trip
4. 1986 - Antigua, Hawks Bill Resort, sea view bungalows
5. 1987 - Camping in the wilds of New Jersey
6. 1988 - The Infamous Lake Vanare located in the Lake George Region of New York
7. 1989 - Upstate New York
8. 1990 - St. Lucia, the Eldest's first plane ride, stayed on the Northern tip of the island.
9. 1991 - Last Florida Disney Trip
10. 1992 - 
11. 1993 - England (London, Canterbury, Brighton, Bath, Cambridge and York)
12. 1994 - UK (Glasgow, Edinburgh, Inverness, London, Dover, Winchester, Chester) for a Wedding.
13. 1995 -
14. 1996 - Barbados, Divi Southwinds Beach Resort
15. 1997 - Amish Country Pennsylvania
16. 1998 - England (London, Tonbridge, Sevenoaks, Salisbury, Avebury, Oxford, Northampton, Warick) Land Rover 50th Anniversary
17. 1998 - Alaska Cruise
18. 1999 -
19. 2000 - Cabin on Lake Luzerne, New York
20. 2001 - Switzerland (Zurich, Berne, Lauterbrunnen, Zermatt)
21. 2002 - Cabin on 2nd Connecticut Lake, New Hampshire
22. 2003 - Tokyo, Japan
23. 2004 - Boothbay Harbor, Maine
24. 2005 - Italy (Milan, Florence, Venice and London) January
25. 2006 -
26. 2007 - Trip 1 to see the Eldest in London (February, 3A)
27. 2008 - Trip 2 to see the Eldest in London (February, 3A)
28. 2009 - Trip 3 to see the Eldest in London (February, 3A)
29. 2010 - Trip 4 to see the Eldest in London (March, 2A)
30. 2010 - Trip 5 to see the Eldest in London (October, 1A)
31. 2011 - London, Salzburg and Munich
32. 2012 - Chamonix (trip), Chamonix(alpine plants), France and Montreux and Geneva Switzerland
33. 2013 - Tanzania and briefly in Kenya and a stopover in London
34. 2014 - Aruba, One Happy Island
35. 2015 - Peru, Machu Picchu and the Peruvian Amazon
36. 2016 - Antarctica
37. 2016 - London for a Wedding
38. 2017 - California, LA and San Francisco
39. 2018 - Ice Academy, Driving on frozen lakes in Arjeplog, Sweden
40. 2019 - London
    
41. 2020 - Staten Island North, one Crappy Island
42. 2021 - Keyport, New Jersey. Several Day Trips for take out.
43. 2022 - Munich, Germany.  October to visit family.
44. 2023 - Munich, Germany. June to visit family.
45. 2023 - Munich, Germany, October to visit family.
46. 2024 - Loire Valley France, June, Trek bike trip.
47. 2024 - Munich, Germany, June to visit family.
48. 2024 - San Francisco, August to visit the young one.
49. 2024 - January and June, CIA visit. shhhhh! Top secret.
50. 2024 -
    

Local Sandy Photos

We lost power on Monday evening and had it restored Thursday afternoon.
We had potable water and natural gas for cooking, but no heat, hot water or cell phone service.

This was Monday, just a bit of rain, then the winds started increasing.
Monday night the power went out.

Tuesday: Power still out, no outgoing text messages, house phone dead.
Tuesday we went out trying to get better cell phone coverage and saw some trees down.

Wednesday: Power back at our mothers houses in the late evening.
Thursday: Worked from my mother's, power came back on at our house in the afternoon.