Thanksgiving 2013
I stayed in Southern California this year and accepted an invitation to go to Mia’s aunt & uncles house. They are Betsy and Tracy, also there was Mia’s family. When I showed up at 2pm they had croquet out in the lawn and ping pong around the side of the house. I’ll have to refine my croquet game but ping pong was my talent that day, for the first time ever I won a match against my girlfriend.
After a delicious thanksgiving dinner and dessert the kids (which includes everyone except the parents) went to see a movie. The theater became packed and there were already people waiting outside or stores for Black Friday at 8pm on Thursday. Ridiculous.
On Friday I got a tour of Sierra Madre, which has the same feeling of a town near where I grew up, it’s a really nice town and you don’t feel lose to Los Angeles when you’re there even though there are great views of the skyline. It rained all morning and Mia’s brother and sister James and Maeve put on rain ponchos and played croquet outside, it was hilarious.
After stopping by the LMU law school I got to surf really fun, big waves at the Redondo Breakwall. Unfortunately everyone seemed to have the day off and anyone in the surf community had heard how big the waves were going to be with favorable weather conditions -glassy all day. So there were about 50 surfers wading in the water for one wave to break. It can be a heavy localized spot with people heckling each other in the lineup.
The rest of the weekend I surfed another time or two and hung out, and read. We took a trip to urgent care because Mia wasn’t feeling great. We were the only people in the building and the whole visit took about 15 minutes. This is worth mentioning because of so many times I didn’t go to an urgent care when I should have. Now I know it isn’t a bad experience.

These ducks hear me come home, as I’m one of the few boats that is being lived on. Then they congregate under the stern all night. Scares me when I step out to go up and shower and they get startled from the boat movement and startle me. I can only hope they help keep the rudder clean of sea growth.