However, my Thanksgiving jaunt to Phoenix was a very nice break. I drove up on Thursday around noon, and due to heavy traffic and loads of accidents along the road, I didn't make it there until around 2:30... just in time for dinner!
Here are the only two photos I took at the dinner hosted by my mom's cousin Joanne (I guess that makes her my first-cousin-once-removed?). It ended up being just her, her sister (and my mom's cousin also) Ardith, and me at Joanne's house in Scottsdale...
Here's the table...
Very quaint indeed.
And - in contrast - here is Ardy ripping apart the turkey carcass after dinner...
The medieval side of Thanksgiving.
We chatted for quite a while after dinner, drinking coffee & wine, and nibbling on pumpkin pie. Then Ardy and I went back to her house in central Phoenix, where I spent the night.
I should also mention that I did go bowling the night before Thanksgiving (on Wednesday) here in Tucson, and I did shock and awe the clientele at Camino Seco Bowling Lanes... with my incredibly low score and massive amounts of gutter balls. God, I suck at bowling.
Here are some of my bowling friends:
Barry (bowling team captain), Ben, and Jill
And Barb, Anna, & Alex:
Alex, Barb, and I got the three lowest scores. C'est la vie.
Now it's time to return to reading "an overview of the Sharia'a prohibition of riba" in my Islamic economics primer.
Peace.
1 comment:
Ugh, I'm about to have to get serious about writing a paper for one of my classes.
Bowling rules. I always say that I'm doing well if I bowl a higher score than the outside temperature. In Tucson that can be pretty high though!
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