Thursday December 14th I played my first official round with the Randolph ladies league. That evening I attended the classroom portion of a women's cycling class I had seen offered for free through the parks and recreation department. I figured it would be a good idea to update my cycling awareness for safety sake. It was a small group and the information was well presented. On Saturday we went out for a ride and did some drills on turning and stopping. I am now a more confident cyclist.
John's birthday is December 20th. We planned a family dinner at Applebee's across from McGuire's after work. Everyone met at the shop just before closing so the other staff could meet John's kids and grandkids. It is a very family oriented business, with John the only sales staff member that isn't related to the owners. We had a nice dinner.
It turned out kids are free on Wednesday, so it was an extra good choice to have gone there. After dinner John's youngest, Angelica, her boyfriend Tiggy, John and I went to Top Golf for an hour. It was the old folks first time there. It is an interesting place. Kind of like Launch in Toronto but more sophisticated and electronic.
I offered to help wrap gifts at McGuire's on December 23rd and 24th. The 23rd was busy, so it was helpful that I was there. The store regularly gets busy enough that they have a take a number system like you often see at a butcher shop.
The 24th wasn't very busy, partly I feel because the store isn't usually open on Sundays and they didn't advertise that they were going to be open, other than on the sign outside the day of. They ended up closing around 3:00. The mood was festive and there were snacks and beverages on offer.
We attended a Christmas eve late afternoon pot luck in the campground, the same Mexican themed one we went to last year. We didn't have any special plans for Christmas day, so played golf and had tamales at home for dinner.
I had asked John to make arrangements for us to go to a New Years Eve party, seeing as we had pretty much missed out on celebrating Thanksgiving and Christmas. He didn't really come up with a plan, so rather than stay home and do nothing special, I arranged tickets to the party at the trailer park. They had a live band, you bring your own drinks and they asked everyone to bring snacks to share. The band played requests, there was lots of dancing.
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