Thanksgiving in Virginia

I had Thanksgiving dinner in West Point with Kris's family. We ate at his sister Michelle's house, his parents came down from Gaylord, and his sister Merrianne and her husband came from Dayton, OH. We got a virtual tour via Skype of the Vienna apartment of his other sister Laura who recently moved there for work. The house was very full and it was almost like being back in Gaylord, except the weather was sunny and in the 50s. I really would like to see some snow now, though. :(

After dinner we went for a walk to the tiny public park, where I got this shot of the York River with Michelle's daughter Meghan looking for shells. I love the delicately pale pink of the sky.

History Pile-up on Route 33!

I've been telling everyone that you can't throw a rock here without hitting a historical marker of some kind, and this is a perfect example. The markers here tell passers-by that they are in the area where Captain John Smith was captured by a party of natives in 1607 and where General McClellan passed through during the Civil War while marching on Richmond. The road itself is as old as the Williamsburg Settlement and was used by a retreating General Cornwallis in 1781.

I found this neat web site where all of these markers can be searched by marker number!

DC's Chinatown

This is an arch over the street in Washington DC's Chinatown district. I was here on this cold windy day visiting the nearby Kochland Science Museum, which is the museum of the National Academy of Sciences.

Zellie takes on the green mousie

Since all I did today was spend a few hours playing chamber music with former strangers, I decided to post this video of Zellie being fierce. This went on for a couple of minutes, but I cut out some spots where she was just sitting in one spot flicking her tail around.