Friday following Thanksgiving began with a brisk reverse up-and-over walk with Rob and Anna. The walk included an encounter with the Riries and a run-by fruiting of 2025 N. Oak Lane where I lived until we moved to LA in 1955. We drove north to IKEA to pick up a few things for the Hastings new home before returning home to smash our Halloween/Thanksgiving pumpkins to make way for Christmas decorations. The extended Hastings met up at Cafe Rio and then some returned to our house for a canasta night.
Saturday, Rob and Anna joined some of her Exploring-Sainthood friends for breakfast in American Fork. We met them there and headed north again to SLC and City Creek Center where they ordered new living room furnishings at West Elm. Macy's have revived the ZCMI tradition of candy windows at Christmas and we took a peek. While A&R tied up all the loose ends, the rest of us lunched at Greek Souvlaki. That afternoon was Dustin and Courtney's Utah reception at Thanksgiving Point, so we drove north one more time.
Sunday morning in fair weather, the Renoites headed west to a major moving project. Within a couple of days the weather changed and we received our first valley storm of the year. We had about a foot of snow from a storm that didn't let up for almost two days. Fortunately, we bought our tree before the storm started and now all is ready for Christmas.
Rock Canyon in the rear
Built by Henry and Alta in the late 1940s
Two cool coolies at IKEA
Smashing pumpkins
Ditto
Ditto
Courtney, Ever, and Whitney
Encore de canasta
Grammy working Clara over
The troops begin to assemble in SLC
Joined by Grammy
Joined by the Colvers, Madeline, and Louisiana
Katy Kathryn entertaining binkers at West Elm
Making choices
SLC Main Street at City Creek
Macy's windows
I remember the ZCMI windows as being more special, but
memories are tricky
Good Greek food
The Homers
Louisiana with the Ensigns
Joined by Milski
The boys had lots of hot chocolate
The snows have begun
Ready for Christmas
Lots of fun adventures with more to follow as December unwinds. That's all for now.
OXO
D.
4 comments:
Love the pic of Clara gritting her hair did! Hate missing out so so much!
What an excellent week. I still haven't been to downtown SLC with all the changes, it looks like a happening place. So glad we got to visit, thanks for coming to the party.
Hey I commented. Where did it go? Anyway, I just said I sure love the walks, and the food, and the company.
Nice week. Glad we got to share a bit of if. Looks like we got out of town just in time!
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