We spent the first two weeks of November catching up on our list of boat projects. Then we prepared Reality for our 3 month trip home. We got Reality all tucked away and drove up to Barcelona and flew home on November 20th.
We arrived home just in time to start celebrating the holiday season. Our holiday celebrations started with a nice two week visit from Vaughn's sister Joy and her husband Ken at Dad's house. Joy and Ken were out from Mississippi. Dad was really glad to have all the company. Although we might have all over whelmed him a bit. Vaughn's girls Shelly and Jennifer and their families came over a we celebrated an early Thanksgiving together.
Thanksgiving Day we headed over to see Sharon's Mom. The whole family was over for a big Thanksgiving Feast. It was fun to share the stories of our Atlantic crossing and European travel.
We ended November by keeping with a 25 year tradition of camping the weekend after Thanksgiving. We went camping with our friends Janet, Mike, Don, Cheryl and her new friend Forrest. We had a wonderful time catching up with our friends while enjoying the California coastline. We live on the ocean....but never get tired of it's beauty! We camped amongst the huge California Redwoods at Big Basin State Park. It's nice to be reminded how many beautiful places we have right next to home!
