We wish all of you a happy Thanksgiving this week. Our week was fairly quiet, although J.J. was kept busy doing free babysitting on Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday. I did some grading and writing and reading during the week along with some administrative things, and then on Friday evening we got a babysitter and went out to dinner with Trevor and Shara and then went to the college rodeo, which was fun to watch. They have an indoor arena here for rodeos and other things, and the action was quick and efficient, not like some of those rodeos you go to where they spend as much time telling dumb jokes and having the clown do silly things as rodeo things.
Saturday J.J. and Claire went to Music Time class, while Rachel took a good nap and I did some much-needed filing of our various papers that have been piling up. When J.J. and Claire returned, we packed up to go to Nashville to pick up J.J.'s sister Kari later that evening. First, we went to the zoo, and had 2 hours before it closed and almost saw everything. It was a nice temperature -- long sleeves only, and being later in the day all the cats were out and wandering -- two tigers (one white), leopards, and a cougar. We also saw elephants and giraffes, which Claire said were her favorite, and also several neat birds and savannah animals. We still had an hour or so before we had to pick up Kari, so we drove around downtown Nashville a little, and that was fun to see for the first time. We picked up Kari, ate dinner at the Opry Mills mall, and then drove home.
Our weather here has been different every day; it rained early in the week and the clouds kept the temperature not as cold, and then when it cleared up the mornings and nights were cold. It warmed up today quite a bit. The trees are in the last stages of colors, and one of our trees lost all of its leaves in the rain -- one day it was bright orange and the next it was bare.
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