We had a lot of options to have Thanksgiving Dinner in Bellevue with Mom but opted to try something new this year. We ordered the entire meal from Williams-Sonoma and it arrived frozen. Although the cooking directions were not stellar and I had to microwave some of the raw turkey roast (after 90 minutes in the oven,) I think everyone was pretty happy with the outcome. Luckily Mom made some of her stuffing and had some homemade cranberry sauce, which we devoured. The pumpkin pie that came with the meal was excellent.

After watching a few football games and probably an episode of Law & Order or two, Joel and I wandered next door to the hotel for the evening. The next morning we hit the gym- HAHA!

We headed over to pick up Mom the next morning (and have some leftover pumpkin pie for breakfast – YAY!) before running some errands. We also stopped at St. Andrews and visited Dad’s cubbie hole – or whatever they call it!

We then had a few hours to kill before dinner so Joel and Mom devoured a couple cans of sardines – and paid the price of full food comas, which they both denied … so weird …

Once I was able to rouse the two out of their food comas, we headed to Dukes for seafood and a window-side view of the Bellevue Snowflake Parade.

All in all a very short trip but a great time – and it didn’t rain!