Umm...of course!
We spent Thanksgiving in Deep Creek, Maryland which only loosely qualifies as the woods as we rented a beautiful condo and spent most of our time there with a little bit of nature time sprinkled in. Both sets of grandparents met us there and even with the sprint to the finish to get dinner on the table a good time was had by all. It was especially exciting that the Ladies (Grandma 1 and Grandma 2 and I) handily beat the men at Trivial Pursuit the 90s edition. Matt begs to differ that answers relating to 90210 and RuPaul should count as winning at a trivia game but we'll take what we can get. Bridger had a great time bossing all of his grandparents around. Two funny anecdotes from all of his chatter.
1. When we were going around saying what we were thankful for Bridger would call on each person. When it was my mom's turn he said in a coy little voice "Grandma Sneaky Ross". We have no idea where that came from but the Sneaky nickname might be here to stay.
2. On our last morning I wanted to get him outside before the drive and he said:
"No I am going to annoy you and stay inside!" I think I told him once that we were going outside because he was annoying me a few weeks ago, but apparently that was one time too many and he figured out how to use it. Don't worry...Mom still wins and we went outside!
On our way out we had to make a pit stop for the B and found a little slice of homemade heaven. If you are ever on route 68 in Maryland, exit 56 has all the homemade goodness you could ever want. We bought fruitcake for GrandDad and Grandpa as pre-Christmas treat (yes they are crazy as the love that stuff), delicious dinner rolls for Thanksgiving, and whoopie pies that were to die for. There were so many other things we would have loved to have sampled though. And as a bonus their bathroom was sparkling clean!
The first night we were there we headed over to Mountain State Brewery for delicious pizza using a wood-burning oven and fun beers. Bridger entertained himself by building domino towers!
We got our nature time in at Deep Creek Lake State Park. Bridger got to build a bird feeder that he couldn't put up at the condo due to bears but sadly it will likely only feed pigeons if we put it up here. Hence the bird feeders are still in the bag given to us at the Nature Center, which I really should address or the mice that have taken up residence at our house might enjoy their own feast.
Just to show you how much we were "roughing it" here is some of our downtime in the condo. Guitar hero, toys galore, a beautiful deck, and great weather made for a very relaxing time.
What a blessing it was to have some great family time. We are thankful for our families, the good health that we have, the means to make a trip like this, and a moment to press pause on our busy life. (And now I have to get moving as I need to get to work on making Christmas holiday memories...Bridger is already worried that we won't be having a Christmas tree since it isn't up yet and his friends all of have trees...who are these friends and can they decorate for me??)
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