The Holidays

We are not used to so much sunshine.

Thanksgiving

With Thanksgiving landing during the last few days of November and two days before we were scheduled to arrive at our next volunteer site, we elected to stay at the coast and not travel to be with family. A sad but sane decision. Thanksgiving day dinner was a pleasant community event at Thousand Trails RV Camp in Newport. We, meaning Cheryl, cooks a thanksgiving meal, also. This year it was very disorganized. A few items, the bread machine, rolling pin and ceramic baking dishes, remained forgotten in storage. Fresh baked  rolls were served post thanksgiving. A large glass mug was a good but slippery substitute for a rolling pin. Hey, everything was edible and tasty.

Solstice/Christmas

Christmas landing mid week meant another holiday without visiting family. All hosts at Beverly Beach have Christmas off which means the park rangers do the tasks normally assigned to hosts. Nine yurts were assigned to one ranger for cleaning. Rich, knowing nine yurts is too many along with all the other ranger tasks stepped up and worked cleaning yurts christmas day. The hosts gathered together christmas day for a pot luck dinner. Great food and friendship.

New Years

Ah, 2020. As a child looking to the future, I (cheryl) thought that the year 2020 would be a magical year. Will keep you posted.
Host orientation each month is on the first. 1 January 2020 found Rich and Cheryl arriving for host orientation at Beverly Beach at 9:00 a.m. No late night revelry. We watched Bohemian Rhapsody. A high energy but rather sad movie. A comedy would have been a more appropriate choice but are  watching the 2019 oscar nominated films as they become available to us at each host site. Hopefully, we will have viewed them all by the time the 2020 nominations are released.

Have a magical rockin' 2020.