THANKSGIVING, NAME GAMES & DRIVING TO SANTA CLARITA

This is our first thanksgiving together as husband and wife! We spent the evening at Santa Clarita at the home of Marti Page and family. Marti has been a bosom buddy and was one of our bridesmaids at the wedding. She sang the special number entitled "Our Wedding Day"... come to think about it, she has yet to return the song book or the CDs... oh well... we would be seeing her every Sunday at Church so it would not be a problem.

We came in late because we underestimated our 44.5 mile journey to their house. It took us 1 hour in low traffic condition. It was dark by 5pm and we had trouble looking for some of the signs that were blocked by trees and surrounded with a darkness that puts those lighting designers in charge of the streets to shame... OK... my wife thinks that the city had to do with it and not caring lighting designers like herself.

We had a good time eating and playing this name game... we had to write our names and pass it to one person in the group to read. Upon the second time he or she reads it, we would have to start asking questions to a specific person like "Are you Tom Hanks?" To which the mischievous answer was "No... I am not ... but I would like to be!"

So Crystal was Bruce Willis, Michael Jordan, Jim Elliot, Mao Ze Dong & Meg Ryan all in one night. I had the privilege of being momentarily Audrey Hepburn, Clayton Erb, Geoffery Reggio, Tom Wofle and Marti Page (yes... the bridesmaid).

Rusty Page (Marti's Bro.) tried to be clever by writing his name as Jiang Ze Min, so as to deceive others that Crystal or myself would "contextually" use as Chinese celebrity. However, his name was pronounced as Jan Simeon. We thought that it was some retired football star or some unknown hollywood star. We had such a blast when we found out who he was masquerading as.

Well... we are happy to experience a supposedly typical American Thanksgiving evening. We think that how each family spends their time on this holiday is of course unique.

And yes... we had turkey...