big plans for this month

Mama and my sister spent today organizing our kitchen bins for Thanksgiving week. We'll be spending five days and four nights about 2 1/2 hours from home in a park we like. It's the longest I'll have been camping at one stretch since the early 1980's! I can only imagine the dog will be bored beyond tears as he hates being tied to a tree all day. He'll have to take some naps to fill time.

We're not giving up our Thanksgiving dinner, either. Mama was an expert at cooking entire Thanksgiving meals (including turkeys) and taking them camping when we were kids. We're skipping the turkey (my sister's vegetarian, anyway) and Mama and I will bring along some sliced turkey from our favorite barbeque joint! We did that one year when we rented a beach house for Thanksgiving a few years back- took the whole meal and turkey from Bubbalou's (yes, that's the name: Bubbalou's Bodacious Barbeque!).

Of course, the menu planning gets taken very seriously with us. If you've read anything else in this blog you know it's really about the food and the naps with us. The Covered Wagon excels at nap time. The windows unzip from the top so you can get fresh air with limited light, if needed. My bunk always faces the road so we don't open the end window all the way. My sister's bunk always faces the back end of the site so she can open it all the way. When every available window is open (including the one in the door) there's only about a 6 ft stretch which is a picture window but not screened. Otherwise- the whole thing opens up like a giant screen room. It's the best for snoozes! Even the dog sleeps well in there.

So, countdown to Thanksgiving has begun! (I'm so excited!!) !!!!!!!