We’re finally back home. It was a long ride home today. More on that later.
We had a wonderful Thanksgiving in Clinton. There was no more rain after the trip down. Thursday was a little cool, but nice. The kids had a great time playing outside. My brother made Dad a Ladder Golf set for Christmas, but game it to him early so we could play it this weekend. It was a big hit with everyone! The food was wonderful as usual. We fried a turkey again this year, which is always good. There was lots of other good food to go around as well. I also worked on teaching my Dad the proper way to watch football when you own a TiVo. 
Friday was another beautiful day. It warmed up enough that we didn’t need coats so a good time was had by all playing outside. Lots of soccer and running around and playing more ladder golf.
Today we packed up and left around 11:30am. The traffic was pretty rough this time. I’m glad we didn’t put off leaving till tomorrow since it’ll only be worse. The funniest traffic moment involved one of those big traffic signs that they give delay information on and such. We had been going pretty slow for about half an hour. We saw the sign off in the distance. Kate joked that it would be funny if all this traffic was just from people reading the traffic sign. I found it quite funny when she turned out to be right. As soon as we got out from under the sign, the traffic picked up to 65MPH again for about 2 or 3 miles.
Other than that, the traffic appeared to be the normal too many cars for too little space type. We happily got off on US17 When we reached it, and the rest of the journey wasn’t too bad.
We’re back home again with a day to recover somewhat before getting back to the real world. We had a wonderful time seeing everyone all at once, something we aren’t able to do often enough at all.
