Day 46- November 25th and Day 47- November 26th

Day 46- November 25^th

Today was Thanksgiving at home and the start of town’s Holiday weekend. It’s Friday, so I’m off until Sunday night. I called Mom and Dad’s to wish them and Jerry and Aunti Di and Unkie G a Happy Thanksgiving. Jerry had left for home already so I called him there too.

Us Air Services gals decided to meet at the coffee shop that evening. Christen came with Kevin and Jamie brought Matt, whom I hadn’t met yet. We all enjoyed some great conversation over bottles of wine and cups of Kahlua coffee. We hung out there until midrats and Christen and I went for our “lunch”.

Day 47- November 26^th

After midrats, Christen and I played Scrabble. We talked about the 5k Turkey Trot race that was happening later in the morning. She had volunteered to give pre and post race sports massages. I had been contemplating staying up later in the day to volunteer to be a photographer of the event. Knowing she was participating convinced me to do so also.  So I signed up and met with the other volunteers at the Chapel.

I asked Mike the coordinator if I could take the hill above Scott Base. It was the halfway turn around point, but also had amazing view of Discovery Mountain that I wanted to make as a backdrop for the runners.

I stayed up until 1230p editing and putting them on the Idrive for everyone to copy. My Thanksgiving dinner was at midnight, so I needed to get some sleep because I wanted to get in the dining room early enough to save enough table space/chairs for ATOs Thanksgiving dinner