Christmas on the Road

We had a great drive on Christmas Day down to Jared and Stefs in Virginia where we had fun playing with the Grand dogs and cats. The cats aren't nearly as friendly and only appeared when there was food to be had. Once we arrived we went over to Stef's parents (Norm and Sharon Levesque) and had a very nice dinner. It had been two years since we had seen Norm and Sharon so it was nice to visit with them. After visiting with Jared and Stef and the puppies. (Jared promised to put up pictures of the puppies in their Christmas finery)
We headed down to Spencer and Elizabeth's home, arriving to find them healthy and doing well. We had a real treat of having some bear ribs for dinner. One of their friends had given them some frozen bear so Spencer, ever being the adventurous person made up an apple marinade and cooked the ribs. They were yummy, we also had some of their recently killed chickens in a stir fry to round out the meal. We are hoping for some bear stew on the return trip.
Our ride to Norfolk was uneventful, as was our flight to Utah. Matt and Angie and Jayson picked us up at the airport for the ride to Orem, and then let us use a car for our ride down first to Bethany and Ryans and then off to the Edmunds to visit with them, and the Chatfields who are leaving on a mission to Albania next Monday.
We of course got everyone together for the Patriots game on Saturday night. It was nice that Mike and Penny were away, so we were able to use their large TV for the game.
On New Year's eve day we went to Tucanos for lunch. This is a Brazilian restaurant, where if you are a vegetarian you would not be real happy. They grill meat on skewers and bring them around to tables and cut off meat for you. Everyone had a great time. There were 23 of us there. We were only missing Sean and Kyle.
We had a New Year's eve party at Matt's home, where we very sensibly rang in the New Year at midnight Eastern time. We were all headed out the door by 10:30.
That's it for now. We wish everyone a very Happy New Year.