Courtney & Michael signed up to help make food bags on Thanksgiving morning organized by three community churches -- a couple of Jewish synagogues, the West side Presbyterian church and the LDS stake. In the Rabbi's words, "We organize it and the LDS staff it."
I loved starting the morning with service.
And was thankful that Chris and Nick also wanted to come in spite of the early hour.
The church was 70th and Central Park West so we saw the start of the parade.
We assembled 1800 food bags with 10 types of beans, rice, couscous and bullion.
I calculated each bag would make 100 meals (servings of soup).
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Giant pallets of boxes of beans at 9:00...
Empty by 11:00
Assembled and ready to take to the distribution location.
The project took from 9 - 11, and if you hurried to the street you could see the tail end of the parade.
Everyone went back to their homes and hotels for a rest before Thanksgiving lunch at Maison Pickle
Maison Pickle is so good!
Nick wants to go back to Carmines next year because it has a more festive atmosphere.
(Decorated for Christmas). He also thinks the food may be better, but he is remembering incorrectly.
We loved having the Brands join us as well as Mary Ellen and JD (and Taylor and Cole)
I'm thinking this will be a Christmas card photo for this year.
After dinner we all went home for another rest then met up to watch the last half of the
Cowboys game at our hotel, eat snacks and work on a puzzle.
Literally the best part of Thanksgiving.
The game ended about 8:00, but we hung out until 9:00 working on the puzzle, waiting for the perfect time to head to the Empire State Building -- late enough when there aren't any crowds,
but before the last elevator to the top at 10:15. We timed it perfectly.
If you recall, last year half our group got stuck in the elevator for twenty minutes
and we were given ten free passes to come back another time.
We were a teeny bit worried they may not honor them a whole year later. But they did with no questions asked, AND even through in an extra free ticket to cover our group since we had eleven! So cool! And this time no one got stuck.
Cuties!
Somehow, at 11:00 at night, Christopher and Nicholas convinced us to go to Serendipity.
So we ended our Thanksgiving feasting with giant sundaes and french fries.
Taylor and Cole have to go home tomorrow, so we really packed in their last day with everything!
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