$1.89
As promised here is a posting about the rest of our trip to Missouri for Thanksgiving, with pics included.
On Wednesday Marilyn worked a half day. So about 11:30 or so Curt and I walked to the hospital to meet her. When we left the hospital we picked up Grandma Phyllis and headed to the new deli that had just opened up--we met Ed there. (There are very few restaurants in Albany. It is a town of 2,000. They just had a Mexican restaurant open and a Subway sandwich place will be open soon. Albany is the kind of place where people wave at each other when they drive past each other.) The deli was busy and the food was really good and cheap!
A little before dinner time our friends Bryan, Mary and little Reagan came by for a visit. (We tried to visit them earlier but they weren't home. They just recently moved back to Albany from Kansas City.) That little Reagan is such a cutie. She acts all shy at first and then forget it--you can't get her to stop talking. We gave her a litle Scoa for her birthday. She just loved it. We had a good visit with them. When they were leaving Reagan wanted to know why Mommy and Daddy hadn't hugged and kissed everyone good-bye. :) (Oh, and recently Reagan had taken Daddy's razor and decided to shave. Poor thang had cuts on her face. Reagan also recently "drove." She was in the front of Grandpa's truck, threw it into gear, the door locked, and Grandma was in the back of the pickup. Reagan drove into a parked truck. And apparently was laughing the whole time.)
The Wednesday night before Thanksgiving is the big night to head to the bar--Shadowfaux. Anybody who is anybody in Albany is there. The place was packed. We saw all of our friends and people I don't know or can't remember their names. They remember me because I am the outsider--from somewhere else. There was a local band playing--and they weren't too bad. A friend requested "I Will Survive" for me. I never heard it. But my friend Jennie told me later that they did play it--it just sounded a little different. So we were throwing back cheap drinks and cutting it up on the dance floor. Our friend Jennie had a baby in April and had been breast-feeding since then. So she was looking forward to a night out with no kids and she could drink!
We had a nice and quiet Thanksgiving with Ed, Marilyn and Grandma Phyllis. We had lots of good eats. (We had lots of good eats throughout the whole week. Marilyn usually has a menu prepared for the whole week when we visit.)
After that we went over to see our friends Scott and Jennie and their boys, Beau and Seth.
We had a fun visit with the kids. It was the first time we had met baby Seth. He sure is a cutie!
We went back to Curt's parents' house. When we headed to the car it was so freakin' cold. I don't do cold and there were a few days where it was downright chilly!
The 5 of us got together again and played more Sequence. We played that a lot when Craig and James were there. (James is also the self-proclaimed Checkers champion of the family.) After Sequence we broke out Taboo. I haven't laughed so much in my life. Grandma P was a crack-up. She kept asking, "I can't use any of these???" (Pointing to the 5 words on the card that you can't use when trying to get your team to guess the main word.) At one point I was laughing so hard I blew snot out of my nose!
The next morning Scott and Jennie picked us up and we headed to Kansas City, sans kids. They left the boys in Albany with Jennie's parents so we could have an adult night out. We went to a brewery for lunch. Afterward we left the guys there to drink beer, watch football and play video games. Jennie and I walked around and visited lots of cute little shops. Most of them were set up for Christmas. We both love that stuff and Scott and Curt, well, they don't.
We headed back to their place and hung out and then started getting ready for dinner at McCormick's on the Plaza. We had a great seafood dinner. (We even saw the coach for the Kansas City chiefs. Not that I would have recognized him on my own.) After dinner we walked around the Plaza looking at the pretty lights. There was even a lighted carriage that looked like Cinderella's. The area is really pretty all lighted up. Afterward to a bar in hopes of finding Jennie a frozen drink. No such luck there or at dinner.
We flew out early the next morning and were back in Berkeley by early afternoon.
Oh, I almost forgot to mention what my title means. The cheapest we saw gas in Albany while there was $1.99--and I was impressed. But the cheapest we saw in Kansas City was $1.89. (Gas today (01/03/06) in Emeryville is $2.10. Not too shabby.)
On Wednesday Marilyn worked a half day. So about 11:30 or so Curt and I walked to the hospital to meet her. When we left the hospital we picked up Grandma Phyllis and headed to the new deli that had just opened up--we met Ed there. (There are very few restaurants in Albany. It is a town of 2,000. They just had a Mexican restaurant open and a Subway sandwich place will be open soon. Albany is the kind of place where people wave at each other when they drive past each other.) The deli was busy and the food was really good and cheap!
A little before dinner time our friends Bryan, Mary and little Reagan came by for a visit. (We tried to visit them earlier but they weren't home. They just recently moved back to Albany from Kansas City.) That little Reagan is such a cutie. She acts all shy at first and then forget it--you can't get her to stop talking. We gave her a litle Scoa for her birthday. She just loved it. We had a good visit with them. When they were leaving Reagan wanted to know why Mommy and Daddy hadn't hugged and kissed everyone good-bye. :) (Oh, and recently Reagan had taken Daddy's razor and decided to shave. Poor thang had cuts on her face. Reagan also recently "drove." She was in the front of Grandpa's truck, threw it into gear, the door locked, and Grandma was in the back of the pickup. Reagan drove into a parked truck. And apparently was laughing the whole time.)
The Wednesday night before Thanksgiving is the big night to head to the bar--Shadowfaux. Anybody who is anybody in Albany is there. The place was packed. We saw all of our friends and people I don't know or can't remember their names. They remember me because I am the outsider--from somewhere else. There was a local band playing--and they weren't too bad. A friend requested "I Will Survive" for me. I never heard it. But my friend Jennie told me later that they did play it--it just sounded a little different. So we were throwing back cheap drinks and cutting it up on the dance floor. Our friend Jennie had a baby in April and had been breast-feeding since then. So she was looking forward to a night out with no kids and she could drink!
We had a nice and quiet Thanksgiving with Ed, Marilyn and Grandma Phyllis. We had lots of good eats. (We had lots of good eats throughout the whole week. Marilyn usually has a menu prepared for the whole week when we visit.)
After that we went over to see our friends Scott and Jennie and their boys, Beau and Seth.
We had a fun visit with the kids. It was the first time we had met baby Seth. He sure is a cutie!
We went back to Curt's parents' house. When we headed to the car it was so freakin' cold. I don't do cold and there were a few days where it was downright chilly!
The 5 of us got together again and played more Sequence. We played that a lot when Craig and James were there. (James is also the self-proclaimed Checkers champion of the family.) After Sequence we broke out Taboo. I haven't laughed so much in my life. Grandma P was a crack-up. She kept asking, "I can't use any of these???" (Pointing to the 5 words on the card that you can't use when trying to get your team to guess the main word.) At one point I was laughing so hard I blew snot out of my nose!
The next morning Scott and Jennie picked us up and we headed to Kansas City, sans kids. They left the boys in Albany with Jennie's parents so we could have an adult night out. We went to a brewery for lunch. Afterward we left the guys there to drink beer, watch football and play video games. Jennie and I walked around and visited lots of cute little shops. Most of them were set up for Christmas. We both love that stuff and Scott and Curt, well, they don't.
We headed back to their place and hung out and then started getting ready for dinner at McCormick's on the Plaza. We had a great seafood dinner. (We even saw the coach for the Kansas City chiefs. Not that I would have recognized him on my own.) After dinner we walked around the Plaza looking at the pretty lights. There was even a lighted carriage that looked like Cinderella's. The area is really pretty all lighted up. Afterward to a bar in hopes of finding Jennie a frozen drink. No such luck there or at dinner.
We flew out early the next morning and were back in Berkeley by early afternoon.
Oh, I almost forgot to mention what my title means. The cheapest we saw gas in Albany while there was $1.99--and I was impressed. But the cheapest we saw in Kansas City was $1.89. (Gas today (01/03/06) in Emeryville is $2.10. Not too shabby.)
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I can't imagine you with snot coming out of your nose! Did you get a photo of that !?!
Sorry, no photos. Dang, too bad.
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