Happy, um, very-post-Thanksgiving!
Nov. 28th, 2007 01:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cahn(Oops, meant to post this before the previous post. Oh well.)
Did Thanksgiving with my four cousins (all sisters) and aunt/uncle for, let's see, this may be the eighth year in a row. My cousins are way cooler and nicer and friendlier than I am, but easily bribed to let us hang out with them by baked goods provided by D. My cousins' kids (there are six (!) now) have graduated from the ugly newborn and annoying savage uncivilized early-toddler stage and are now in the totally-cute only-slightly-uncivilized (well, relatively) late toddler stage (it helps that as far as I can tell my cousins are awesome parents), and are really fun to play with. A Wii was the centerpiece of this Thanksgiving's entertainment, prompting the oldest kid (who is 5 1/2) to start what looks to be a long campaign to get a Wii of her own, while all the parents, as well as D and I, vowed never to own a Wii for fear that we would stay glued to the screen for weeks on end. It's one of those things that once you're out of sight of the Wii, you're like, "wait, why did I just spend two hours on that?" On the other hand, it is also a great party game for twelve mildly-dorky adults.
Also, speaking of addictions, I may have hooked one of my cousins' husbands on Nethack, which makes me very happy. I know perfectly well why I spend hours on Nethack :)
We then went to see Dave's sister, who is in Sacramento, who is expecting and who totally shows to me but not, apparently, to D; she is about twice as productive as I am, as far as I can tell, even weighed down by a proto-little one. And then we had a quickie trip to Yosemite where we had time to do half the hike up Yosemite falls. And then we drove for a long time, and then we slept for a long time, and then I played with shiny wire for a long time. A great vacation!
Did Thanksgiving with my four cousins (all sisters) and aunt/uncle for, let's see, this may be the eighth year in a row. My cousins are way cooler and nicer and friendlier than I am, but easily bribed to let us hang out with them by baked goods provided by D. My cousins' kids (there are six (!) now) have graduated from the ugly newborn and annoying savage uncivilized early-toddler stage and are now in the totally-cute only-slightly-uncivilized (well, relatively) late toddler stage (it helps that as far as I can tell my cousins are awesome parents), and are really fun to play with. A Wii was the centerpiece of this Thanksgiving's entertainment, prompting the oldest kid (who is 5 1/2) to start what looks to be a long campaign to get a Wii of her own, while all the parents, as well as D and I, vowed never to own a Wii for fear that we would stay glued to the screen for weeks on end. It's one of those things that once you're out of sight of the Wii, you're like, "wait, why did I just spend two hours on that?" On the other hand, it is also a great party game for twelve mildly-dorky adults.
Also, speaking of addictions, I may have hooked one of my cousins' husbands on Nethack, which makes me very happy. I know perfectly well why I spend hours on Nethack :)
We then went to see Dave's sister, who is in Sacramento, who is expecting and who totally shows to me but not, apparently, to D; she is about twice as productive as I am, as far as I can tell, even weighed down by a proto-little one. And then we had a quickie trip to Yosemite where we had time to do half the hike up Yosemite falls. And then we drove for a long time, and then we slept for a long time, and then I played with shiny wire for a long time. A great vacation!
