Thanksgiving Week

Do you know what would be fantastic?  If Chris got a week off for Thanksgiving, we did all sorts of fun activities, I caputred all those activities with my camera on my phone, uploaded them to my copmuter then had the computer crash.

Fortunatly we only lost a weeks worth of stuff because of a backup, but unforutnatly I lost all my photos and videos from Thanksgiving week.  Chris did get few on his phone so we still have some.

So here is the quick version.  Chris had the whole week of Thanksgiving off and we were able to do a lot of fun things in the area.

We went to the Columbus Zoo.  Cordon kept complaining of the smell while Eliza kept running around telling everyone she got to see the 'oo oo ahh ahh's' (the monkeys)

 Once again we went to Cracker Barell for Thanksgiving dinner.  I just don't see the point in spending all day cooking and cleaning for just us. 

We took a train ride to "The North Pole" the kids got to meet Santa and see juggling elves.   This sounds pretty fun right?  Thats what I thought.  Unfortunately it was a pretty big let down.  The train had no heat so it was a freezing 30 min ride there and back. The train is on a schedule so your sort of hustled through Santa really fast and you basically have enough time to get a photo then get an ornament.  The hot chocolate and cookies that they website bragged about were pretty gross and the entertaining elves stopped long enough to make a balloon animal for the kids.  This is something that we will not be doing again next year, but Cordon said it was fun so mission accomplished. 

We decorated for Christmas which was a blast this year.  Cordon is old enough to fully understand how exciting Christmas is and Eliza kept feeding off his energy.  It was so fun to have two little helpers.