For Thanksgiving this year we spent the evening with Jen's sister Annie, her boyfriend Chris, and his mom Rhonda. We had a great meal, we brought salmon for me and made mashed potatoes, apple pie, green bean casserole, and we brought hummus and crackers. Annie took care of the turkey, which was gigantic, and made pumpkin bread, pumpkin pie, and salad. I'm sure there was more, but that's what I can remember right now. The kids enjoyed themselves and it was great for everyone to have a chance to hang out.
The next day we went to Fort Stevens for some yurt camping. We brought along Annie's daughter Jasmine and Andrew's friend Frank. The first night we got ourselves warm in the yurt and watched a movie. Saturday we went swimming at the Astoria Aquatic Center and the kids played a lot of tag with glowsticks we bought them. Sunday we went to the Peter Iresdale shipwreck and stopped by the outlet mall at Seaside. We had a great time and the kids did a great job.
The yurts typically have a set of bunk beds and a futon. The kids slept on the bunk beds and we tried the futon. Turns out that because of the way it gets folded up it had a huge ridge down the middle that made it impossible to sleep on. The second night we folded it into a couch and slept a lot better.
