We are back from our Thanksgiving trip to Colorado! It was a wonderful time, and though it was very very busy, we got an enormous amount done. It was sad to say goodbye, but we look forward to being in Colorado next summer. It took us a few days to get over the jet-lag, but we enjoyed every minute of it. We had pizza and beer, delicious Mexican food (many times) and I think the most wonderful thing was just to enjoy the sunny nice weather. Thanksgiving was a wonderful time, and we got to spend it with Winter, Jeff, Nick, Grandma Franson, Aunt Ardell and of course my parents. We had a good-sized turkey and it was a very nice day.


As a taste for what is yet to come, we decided on a location for the Colorado Reception. I think it will be a nice place, and we are very excited about it.

We had a wonderful time in Manitou Springs. Manitou is historically a very different place than Colorado Springs, and it strives on being unique (let's just say weird).

More Manitou.


We had a huge and wonderful Thanksgiving. Everything was very very tasty. I think I gained a few pounds - but I stayed away from the scale just to make sure I was kept in the dark about that. mmm mmm thanksgiving.






Dad was very busy during this time picking out the appropriate wine for everyone. In this photo, Dad is giving Winter a little tour of his wine collection.

















Thanksgiving evening, we had a great time playing cards. We managed to continue eating good things - even into the evening.


We got a bit of snow, and a bit of sun. It made the mountains look quite nice.


_________Back in Frankfurt

We arrived back in Frankfurt safe and sound, although quite tired. It has been quite cloudy and rainy since we got back. Today has really been the first day that the sun has been out. So, I took a ride around on my bike and took a few photos. While I was riding along the river, I saw an old coal powered train going along the river. That was really cool to see.


















I had seen these tracks for quite a long time, but until today I had never seen a train there.




It was so nice to see the sun out. I think alot of my fellow Frankfurters (so much fun say "fellow Frankfurters" ) agreed with me and were out enjoying the weather too.




Carola and I went shopping yesterday. Perhaps Germans have not heard the news yet about an economic recession, because they were out shopping like crazy on Saturday. This department store was packed, we could hardly get around.





This is for dad: I thought you might find it interesting that this headline that was shown in the Frankfurt subway says: "John Fogerty may finally sing his own songs".


That is it for me.

All the best for the holidays.