Thanksgiving and before

The next few weeks consisted of a lot of studying and some good times with friends! We went to a 40th Birthday party which means now have friends who are 40.....one day we will be 40, although not too soon;-)

Fall in Kansas City also means lots and lots of leaves at my house! I have 11 trees in my little yard but two of us working this year it went quickly and was fun! Adam became quite proficient with the leaf eliminator!


Another week brought another concert of Adam's which was excellent and another great exposure to classical music for me! Our friends John and Katie came along and then we went out afterwords for John's birthday and ate 3 ridiculously large pieces of pie - they were delicious!!! And then it was off to Pennsylvania for Thanksgiving, it was a mixture of Thanksgiving and Christmas because we are going to Bangladesh to see my family for Christmas. It was a great trip and fun to be with Adam's family again. Adam's grandmother and Uncle came for Thanksgiving and then we put up the tree.
We sat around and opened presents and had a great time laughing. Adam's brother Rob is a chef and he had a real delicacy for Adam for Christmas....hot dogs of course! They both love food from Chicago and Rob had ordered a 9 piece set to make the real Chicago hot dog complete with really green relish! It was a fun gift and one that everyone enjoyed - well I haven't started eating hot dogs but enjoyed looking at everything in the kit! The next day Rob had to return to Philly to work but the rest of us headed to the Hershey museum and took some pictures that would never have been taken otherwise - all of us as kids who would have gone to Milton Hershey's school or maybe worked in the chocolate factory. There is a lot of history in that town and Milton really was a philanthropist. His school continues to help out 100's of kids in need. Not anything you see in the Reese's commercials! (http://www.mhs-pa.org/) if your interested in finding out more!

Tea anyone?
Saturday my Aunt Linda, Uncle Merritt and Cousin Amanda came it to hang out and meet Adam. We ate lunch and had some really yummy chocolate drinks. It had been too long since we had all been together! That night we went to Sweet lights which was a gigantic production of light put on by Chocolate World that you could drive through and listen to Christmas music. We loved looking at all the different creations they had come up with! Then it was back to Kansas City where Adam surprised me with tickets to see the Swell Season who are the artists from the movie ONCE who I absolutely love!! What a great surprise and a really fun way to end the trip! Thanks ATS!!