Thanksgiving

Dave says: It has been a busy semester and I haven't written a blog for awhile. Fortunately the semester will be over in 2 weeks and I'll have a month to recover. Right now I have a few papers and tests coming up. I'm also working on some exciting research which fills up the rest of my time at school. Alisha has already started training for next season and I've been doing my best to get some riding in as well.

The only day of the break that wasn't crammed full of stuff was Thanksgiving itself. Alisha and I rode to Saddlebrooke with Alex, Doug, and Tulio on a Thanksgiving day that was a bit cool by Arizona standards but warm enough to make all the cyclists in SLC jealous. We had Thanksgiving at my grandparents' house with my mom and the kids as well as Christine and her family.

On Friday, we met the Toussaints for breakfast at Einsteins. Next, we worked out some of the details with the short sale that my parents are trying to purchase here (hopefully more details to follow soon), and went to see the latest Harry Potter movie. I find it unfortunate that all the "bad guys" in this movie are extremely powerful while the "good guys" are a bunch of kids who spend most of their time hiding in the woods and arguing amongst themselves. For dinner, Alex and I went to see our old friend Clay. I hadn't seen him for several years and he is climbing up the corporate ladder at Exxon. Even after a decade, we all still seem to have a lot in common. Clay's mom made some fancy pizzas, we also saw Clay's younger sister Amanda who we used to torture, and we all watched Arizona lose at football to No. 1 ranked Oregon.

Saturday began with a leisurely bike ride but as soon as we got home it was time to travel up to Phoenix. We went to the Mesa Temple with my family and did some babysitting for Christine. We drove back late and slept in this morning. After a windy bike ride and an afternoon of church, it's back to homework and preparing for the coming week. I can hardly wait for Christmas break.