We felt very
blessed to have our daughter and son-in-law and our new granddaughter who we
had never met in person (although we have seen lots of pictures), come and
visit us for Thanksgiving. It was really
nice to have family here for Thanksgiving this year. Last year we were invited
out to the home of some members in the branch. It was an enjoyable experience
but I think it was the first time in over 30 years that we didn’t spend
Thanksgiving with our family, so I kind of missed that.
It rained all
day here on Thanksgiving Day and most of the weekend. It made it a little more
difficult to do outside activities during the visit. However we were able to
take them to the local thrift store where everything normally costs .50 cents. It
turns out the thrift store was having it’s own Black Friday both before and
after Thanksgiving, and almost everything was on sale for .10 cents. They sold
toddler toys for 1 dollar a bag. Ashley and Othello were able to find a number
of toys for Sabrie, they washed them up, put batteries in them, and they all
seemed to work and looked almost like new. Many of them were the kind of toys
that have lights go on and make sounds when you push buttons. It was fun
watching our granddaughter experiment with the new toys. I didn’t try to
estimate what the cost of those toys would have been new. But I suspect they
would have been over $100 dollars and the cost to Ashley and Othello was a
dollar and thirty cents.
That tells you
a little bit about Mound City when the number one tourist attraction we take
our out of town visitors to is the local thrift store. :)
