Mom and Dad and Baba come to visit - Part IV

After we got back from Salt Spring Mom and Dad and Baba headed to Vancouver to visit the family for a few days while Jeremi and I went back to work. The following weekend was Thanksgiving however, and in addition to the three of them, my cousin Scott, his wife Erika, their friend Kevin, and their daughters Claudia and Billie were also going to be here over that weekend, as Scott and Kevin were running a half-marathon on the Sunday. Naturally we invited them all for Thanksgiving on the Saturday (as Scott had to fly out Sunday evening).

Here you can see me braiding some shallot-poppy seed-stuffed bread, which was one of our many dishes.


Here's Mom and Claudia hanging out after supper. Claudia was quite funny, and after supper she wanted to ask me if there was going to be dessert, but she was too shy. Finally she got her mom to ask me for her. And of course there was dessert, but it was done a bit later than planned. After a day or two of cooking our oven decided to call it quits, but in a gradual way that meant that the turkey took a bit too long, the pies took about twice as long a usual, and the next morning when we tried to bake breakfast, nothing was working at all. We eventually got it fixed, just in time to cook for my birthday (more on that later).
Erika and Billy..
Baba and I hanging out after supper. We don't usually have enough room to seat 11 (Mom, Dad, Baba, Scott, Erika, Kevin, Claudia, Billie, Nick (Jer's brother), Jeremi, and me), but we moved out the coffee table and bororowed the neighbour's table for the night. Luckily they weren't celebrating Thanksgiving on the same day!
And finally ,the requisite picture of Jeremi getting along well with one of the kids, Claudia in this case. Little children just love him.