Just over a week after Karen and Theoren left, Andrew and Heather arrived to spend Thanksgiving week with us! We had another wonderful visit full of fun times and new memories.
Their weekend started with a round of laser tag at the laser tag place. We had the entire arena to ourselves and had the best time running around, screaming, and shooting each other! Ella was quite the sniper and killed us all. We considered our round at Laser Quest to be just a warm up, though, and continued the competition at church. Here we played in the pitch black sanctuary until late at night.
The next day was Thanksgiving and it was full of all the good food, long walks, family games and leftovers that make this day a favorite holiday. We had many blessings to count at this year's table with the addition of Uncle Andrew to our family and the host of wonderful new beginnings my sister is embarking on this year.
Our Black Friday was spent giving our brains, instead of our wallets, a work out as we returned to The Tech. Now, yes, we had just been there less than 2 weeks before, but this is the sort of place where every experience is different so it was just as fun to explore it with new family members! The highlights of the day were abundant! One was watching Heather get FULLY into the VR. She was giving us quite a funny show moving her whole body around in the world only she could see!
Or having Andrew guide us through the Body Worlds exhibit with his unique surgeon eyes and experience. It was fascinating to hear him describe how he operates and what some of the challenges and details of orthopedic surgery are!
Or watching each girl team up with their aunt/uncle for a multi-step experiment that had them injecting new DNA into petri dishes of E coli to form colorful mold spores visible under microscopes.
Or trying to best each other in another attempt at the egg drop experiment. No mushy, cushy "love mobile" for me this time-- and it did actually work!
Or the best highlight-- seeing the IMAX Panda movie in The Tech's state-of-the-art theater! You can probably guess how one panda-loving member of our group felt about this! :)
After The Tech, we strolled around a cute Christmas festival happening right outside the museum.
The next day, we patronized my favorite shop in town for some Small Business Saturday shopping. This was just lovely, as we had an excuse to buy from and support my business-owing friend, and enjoy free mimosas and Gouda cheese samples while we did it!
Heather and I were realizing that we haven't been together for Thanksgiving since our college years! What a treat to share this feast, this holiday, and this long weekend with them! Every time we get to know Andrew better, we like him more and more. Heather and Andrew are an AMAZING aunt and uncle, indulging my girls in countless games and conversations. We were so blessed to host them this season!
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