Thanksgiving in North Carolina, 2005

 

 

Tuesday, November 22

 

Leaving Camp Hypervisor and the Microsoft campus, Redmond, Washington...

 

 

 

 

Beautiful downtown Bellevue...

 

 

Down the 405 to Sea-Tac...

 

       

 

 

 

 

Mount Rainier comes into view just after takeoff from Seattle...

 

 

 

 

Over the Cascade Mountains of Washington State...

 

     

 

 

Over Montana...

 

 

 

 

I was fetched at the Charlotte airport by Sister Jan and young Will who then delivered me to Strawberry Hill where I was reunited with beloved Mother...  hot cider and a fine meal followed...

 

     

 

 

 

Wednesday, November 23

 

Morning coffee with Mother...  Sister Jan on the line...

 

 

Sylvia and Bill Coffee...  Sylvia of "Coffee Biscuit" fame...

 

 

Thursday, November 24

 

Driving across Charlotte for Thanksgiving at Hamilton Manor, on Mountain Island Lake...

 

 

 

 

At Hamilton Manor we were greeted by Smithers...

 

 

Brother Brian and Sister Jan...

 

 

Engineer Matt, Will, and Ryan...

 

 

Our Thanksgiving feast...

 

 

 

 

I was subjected to numerous attacks...

 

 

 

 

The Hamilton's new boat. Sister Jan and Engineer Matt took Brother Brian and me out on Mountain Island Lake...

 

 

 

That Matt was a mighty sailing man, his Janster brave and sure

With passengers they sailed that day on a Mountain Island tour...  a Mountain Island tour...

 

   

 

       

 

 

Back at Hamilton Manor...

 

     

 

 

 

Saturday, November 26

 

Mother prepares a 4-level butterscotch pecan cake for a little drop-in that we were hosting at Strawberry Hill...

 

       

 

   

 

 

The drop-in...

 

Sister Jan...

 

Brother Brian, the Purvice's, and Sylvia Coffee...

 

Christie...possessor of a fine spirit!

 

Will and Ryan...

 

1st shot: Christie and Ranger Steve... 2nd shot: Randy and Christie...

 

Sister Jan and Engineer Matt...

 

The Purvices, Mary and Christie, and Cecil...

 

 

Monday, November 28

 

Mother being introduced to a puppy... Nephew Ryan takes his seat...

 

 

 

 

 

The Cracker Barrel with Mother, Sister Jan, and young Ryan...

 

       

 

 

 

 

 

Back at Hamilton Manor...  Will and Ryan in position...  Engineer Matt, Sister Jan, and Smithers...

 

 

 

 

Coffee with Pete...

 

 

 

Tuesday, November 29

 

Leaving Charlotte...

 

 

 

 

Snow over Kansas...

   

 

 

Colorado...

 

 

Over Denver...

 

     

 

 

The Rockies, west of Denver...

 

     

 

 

Nevada...

 

 

Mono Lake, California...

 

 

A brief stop in San Francisco...

 

     

 

 

Over the Oregon country...

 

 

Seattle... we came in from the south, over Puget Sound, then north of downtown we made the sharp turn back to the south over the Ballard Bridge, Green Lake, the massive I-5 bridge over the Lake Union Ship Canal, and South Lake Union. Just before reaching Sea-Tac we flew over the Boeing Museum Of Flight...

 

       

 

   

 

 

Back with Bigfoot, at SeaTacPark.com...