Thanksgiving 2008 Part 1

On the actual day of Thanksgiving, Bill Nye and his wife (Mr X's sister) along with their kids picked Mr X and I up and drove us up to Knott's Berry Farm for some good fun with all of the X relations. (Well not quite all...there were a few X's missing.) It was decided that this year we would enjoy Knott's Berry Farm the day of Thanksgiving and we'd do the feasting the day after. That works for me. So we all spent the day riding roller coasters. I was nauseous most of the time but thanks to some Dramamine I survived. (But that night, once I laid down to sleep, a nasty bout of vertigo hit me and I was sick most of the night.)

Here's a picture of Mrs. Nye and her daughter at Knott's:

Here's a picture of Bill Nye with his daughter and the daughter of Mortimer (Mr X's older brother). Yes that's Mr T in the background, undoubtedly up to some crazy hijinks:

Later in the evening the nieces and nephews busied themselves by producing their own version of the Harry Potter story. I think this is a scene where Harry's scar is hurting him because he's thinking of Voldemort. Pretty decent acting chops, wouldn't you say? It must be that very expressive face. This is Mr T's eldest son who, on this blog, will from this point onward be known as 'Harry'...deservedly so: