Troy

We have come up north for our traditional Thanksgiving Weekend family get-together.  Cheryl, Dave and Bennett settled into cousin Ed and Leora’s while we returned to the Olde Judge Mansion.

Jerry and I contributed wine while everyone else created the always delicious and always ample traditional and unusual Thanksgiving meal, including Jello.

This was the best year yet with everything tasting outstanding (exceptions taken by some who don’t like sweet potatoes or Brussel sprouts).  The great thing is there is so much the meal lasts more than two days.  Between eating, watching the parade and football, and playing games, the day exceeded expectations.

 All this work took a toll.

On Friday everyone went to the movie theater but saw different films.  Coco, Wonder, Justice League and Thor all received good to top reviews.  Can you match the viewer to the  movie?
(Jerry, Anna Lee, Jeff, Dave, Cheryl, Bennett, Ed 49, Leora 40ish, Edan 16, and Liat 14).

Saturday is Troy Farmer’s Market day, a must for our purchasing maple syrup.   The market moves indoors during the winter months but is still a local event.

Jeff added a new twist.  We, excluding Jeff and Bennett who had their own time together, participated in an Escape Room.  You are “locked” in a room and have to use a series of cryptic clues to solve a mystery.  It is fun and we were very poor at it but we are willing to try it again.

Sunday the DC trio went home.  We went to lunch at A Better Bite, a Mediterranean restaurant with a sandwich named Hadassah.  We then went to the Albany Institute of History & Art.  The exhibit Well-Dressed in Victorian Albany showed the finely detailed clothing worn by middle and upper-class women. 

Note the stitches, beadwork and lacework.

The exhibit on Anti-Suffragettes is a bit charming.

In Albany, many women of means opposed women getting the vote because they thought it would lessen their commitment to home responsibilities.  It seemed if you were rich you could afford to cede your opinion to your husband but what about poor women who labored under harsh conditions?

At the New York State History Museum was a 9-11 exhibit that has a fire truck, the first one on the scene, all but destroyed on that horrible day.  Nearby is an exhibit of vintage fire trucks.

Our cousins joined us for a luscious meal at Shanghai then we bid them farewell until next year. 

We had breakfast with Jeff before he drove us to ALB airport.  Our time in DC and Troy was wonderful as usual, full of loving family doing so many things together.  We look forward to a repeat next year.