Scattered Thoughts . . .

S heila and I were talking about hotels along the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade route this morning as we watched the parade on television.  We were agreeing that if we ever did venture to Manhattan for the parade, for a few very good reasons, we would want to have a hotel with a room overlooking the parade route.  So, out of curiosity, we opened up Google Maps to see what hotels would be preferable.  We found that there are actually a few options that look quite good and which were reasonably priced.  That got us talking about checking the prices of these hotels for our upcoming Christmas trip to Manhattan with Lukey and Kenzie.  We already have a hotel booked for this trip but it never hurts to check options and check for a better deal. This parade route location where a few nice hotels are located was still a good central location for what we were planning to do on our Christmas trip with the kids.  First we looked into the Warwick Hotel, however and unfortunately, that hotel w

W e usually start all the Christmas festivities immediately after the holiday I despise, Thanksgiving.  There are one or two other holidays that bother me a bit but I truly despise Thanksgiving.  I always make the best of that holiday anyway and, by the end of that long holiday weekend, all of our Christmas decorations are up and the tree is decorated.  This year, however, Christmas came a little earlier.  We started our Christmas gift-giving on Halloween night! Those who read this blog regularly probably already know that this year has been absolutely miserable when it comes to my health but I'll add a little background here anyway.  This year started out with an ambulance ride to the hospital and I've had about a dozen visits since then for follow-ups and tests.  I had a more extensive bone marrow biopsy not long after my ambulance ride to the hospital.  Shortly after that biopsy, I fell on the biopsy site.  We've had to cancel about a half dozen weekend out-of-town   tri

E very year, between August and October, we venture up to Shelburne to visit The Chritsmas Loft with Lukey and Kenzie.  We invited Pop, Ellie and Whitney this year but they could not make it on this day so it was just me, Gee, Lukey and Kenzie again.  We had Lukey and Kenzie for about four days over the Columbus Day weekend and this was one of our activities that weekend.   I included a lot of photos in this blog entry so I'll let the photos do most of the talking rather than write a lot... A Santa and Mrs Claus display greets you as you enter the store... I don't know what had Kenzie so upset in this window display but she surely looks upset... Kenzie brought her Fuji Instax camera on this day so she shot a few photos... Sheila is showing me the Airman Nutcracker she found... I found another Airman but, looking at the photo today, I don't think this one is actually a nutcracker although I could be wrong... We found a few "Baby's First Christmas" items and we