thanksgiving. ok, bridge very enthusiastic for me to get up and play, but i took the chance to sleep in. unfortunately most of the extra time was spent dreaming about trying to catch a mouse with my bare hands. making the thanksgiving day lasagna. and off the thanksgiving at the cort's. alex is bridge's friend and his mom julia invited us to her family's dinner. she is a producer for the nova tv show, and alex's dad is the man in charge of excavating the pyramids in egypt or more truthfully at this point the place where the builders of the pyramids lived. julia's folks are old leftist catholics who have an interesting story and a fairly large family. they were all impressed by my family history. when we got back from a trip to the playground bridge saw the turkeys on the table and burst into tears saying really upset that birds were being eaten. super hero mommy stepped in and explained they weren't wild turkeys, which somehow made a bit of a difference. we played a rather bizarre game called 'up jenkins' which they were all convinced was an ancient game, though i'm not sure that the grandfather didn't invent it to keep all his children busy. somehow i managed to deceive the other team twice. struggling a little to say the right thing for jane who hasn't had the easiest day. a quick google reveals that up jenkins is a real game, though there were several modified reveals of the coin they'd come up with.