Giving Thanks Thursday, Nov 22 2007
Daily 11:35 pm
22 November 2007
Thanksgiving Day
Probably the oddest Thanksgiving Day ever, for us . . . and yet fabulous! The day was spent with Kyle’s family where our dear border collies will stay for the next ten days or so. We enjoyed a delightful visit, and an artful holiday meal of paella and crudité (the beautiful paella is pictured here), followed by amazing crème brulée and a final course of delicious cheeses. Kyle’s mum totally outdid herself! Da claims to have simply been the sous-chef! Dinner was served with a choice of a Malbec-based Cuvée or a Rioja, and the dessert and cheese were served with a dry Marsala. The only sadness to the meal was that we won’t be there for the left-overs!
After an interesting drive (the brakes work—tested when Kyle heroically saved a beatiful doe from an untimely end) in to faire from San Antonio, made simple by Emily (our new GPS device gifted by my mama), we’re ready now, for the big experiment that is TRF’s final weekend of 2007—Thanksgiving Weekend. Like it or not, we’re here, and we’re open tomorrow— Black Friday, Saturday and Sunday. It is a chilly 50 degrees, and it’s drizzling rain. There is no telling what the weekend will bring us. We know the festival has advertised well. And we know there have been hundreds of comp tickets given out for this weekend. And further, we know that the price of admission is a little lower tomorrow than it is regularly. But, what we don’t know is if our customer base will care enough to be out here in the wet cold, rather than gathered with their families in warm houses, or shopping their little hearts out at the mall.
I personally believe this weather will test even the die hard playtrons when combined with the holiday weekend competition for their time and energy. I hope I am wrong. But, surely, whatever the weekend brings, tomorrow is destined to NOT be the busiest of days. We are warm enough with our heated mattress pad, and we already miss the pups.
~MB
