My aunt Susan lives in Birmingham, AL but has a house in Oxford, MD where she spends a lot of her time when she can. It's a gathering point where she, Uncle Bob, and their five children (my first cousins) - who lives all over the globe - come together at times. One such time is Thanksgiving. And this year we got to join them (three of the five anyway, along with 6 of the 9 second cousins), along with my Uncle Rob and his family of four- and several other guests. It's a little over 2 hrs away from us and an easy drive. We had such fun with them all. These shots can give a bit of flavor to our day there:
On Saturday HF and I left the kids at 7 AM in the hands of a brave babysitter and drove two hours east to the Shenandoahs to hike the well-known Old Rag mountain. It's nearly 4,000 feet and a 9-mile roundtrip hike. We expected it to be substantial in nature (which it was). We didn't expect it to be snow- and ice-covered (which it also was). Turned out to be quite an undertaking!
Fun adventure overall (though as we slipped and slid, HF noted nearly a dozen times how sad he was not to have crampons with us), and dinner afterwards in F'burg was also a real treat.
