Thanksgiving '07 was a most excellent holiday weekend! Festivites started a little early with me making the PIES on Wednesday night. I am thrilled to report that the pie crusts did NOT sense my fear this year. They turned out wonderfully on the first try!
I think this year's success is due in part to several things - using the food processor, chilling the ingredients, chilling the dough before rolling and chilling again before pre-baking. Sadly, the pies themselves only had a 50% success rate. I made butterscotch (mmmm...my fav!) which turned out perfectly. But the homemade pumpkin suffered a much worse fate. This was my first attempt at pumpkin and despite following the directions, I pulled the pie out of the oven before it was actually cooked thru.
It LOOKED done on the top, but the middle/bottom was soup...as poor B discovered on Thursday.
Speaking of Thursday, we finished cooking up our sides (zuccini pumpkin muffin stuffin' & honey mashed sweet potatoes with marshmallows) to go with our ham. I got to experience making my own poultry seasoning (stuff we had contained nutmeg and sadly nutmeg=evil for me) and used our mortar and pestle to grind up the various spices. It was quite fun!
Anywho, we feasted with delight and ate to our hearts' content. Mmmm!!!
The rest of the night was spent reading our Stephen King books (Dark Tower series), listening to the classical station and playing some games (Yahtzee!, Rack-o and Skip-bo). All in all, an absolutely lovely day!
Friday was pretty low-key. I finally got inspired to clean out the pantry (WAY overdue - rice from 2002 anyone?) and more importantly we carried through with our tradition of cutting down our own Chirstmas tree. We found a great tree that is perfect for our home. I can't wait to decorate it! Will post some pics once the decorations are up. We also squeezed in a little bit of shopping - but avoided much of the Black Friday madness. Whew!
Saturday afternoon we drove up to Bellingham to meet Rob and Anastasia and stay over at the Chrysalis Hotel and Spa. LOVE that place!
(Plus they offer a MS discount fellow 'Softies!) This is the same place B surprised me with for my bday this past year. I "treated" myself to a facial, which was, um, an experience. I didn't quite know what to expect and WOW was there some discomfort during the extraction process. My initial thought was "if I never have another facial it'll be too soon," but Anastasia tried her best to convince me that the first is the worst, and it gets better the next time. We'll see if I can screw up the courage to do one again in a few months. 
Anywho, here's a few pics of the view of the bay from our room. And as you can see, the train runs right by the waterfront!
I thoroughly enjoyed spending a few hours hanging out on the window seat reading my book and just relaxing. And did I mention the soaker tub in the bathroom? Sheer happiness!
So that pretty much wraps up T-Giving 2007. A wonderfully relaxing weekend that I totally enjoyed every minute of. Things are gonna be a lot different next year, but I am looking forward to that too!!
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