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I just realized that Halloween is Monday! Better stock up on candy – for the kids and for ourselves. I wanted to give away glo-sticks, but upon deeper introspection, I discovered I really wanted to give them to me. Probably best not to get any. I love love love Halloween. Our CFO brought a bunch of pumpkins in from his garden this morning for co-workers to take! I picked a funky little mottled one that wouldn’t be too heavy to carry home on the bus. I felt so happy to be riding the bus home with a pumpkin – felt like childhood.

Mammoth was nice this weekend. In fact, I’m convinced it was better over Xmas b/c we saw a gazillion people driving up to Mammoth yesterday as we were driving home. What a zoo. Big storm coming, should dump some nice powder. The mountain was hard pack and crusty/icy in places. Saturday was windy and so we actually got a nice inch of powder on some runs. Then Jeremy took a spill and we decided to call it quits (after I did a big mogul field and decided not to push my luck). We put his knee and ankle on ice and I think it helped reduce the swelling, but he’s going to see the trainers today. We also took Kaweah around Rock Creek on Christmas Day:

**Jump for more butter**

I’ve been hearing all of these Thanksgiving stories on the radio, from co-workers. How people hate cooking t-giving dinner and how people love eating it but hate cleaning, etc. I’m not doing any of that this year because we’ll be in New Zealand hiking, but I do love to cook Thanksgiving dinner. Stuffing and gravy are my favorites! I’m sad we won’t be celebrating t-giving with friends or family here, but that is completely and utterly outweighed by the fact that we’ll be in New Zealand getting rained on. Actually, we’ll probably cook a t-giving-ish meal upon our return – no reason why we can’t eat turkey for a week. We’re both huge fans of leftovers. Turkey salad sandwiches, mmmmm. Turkey reubens, drool. As all of my friends know, I have an ongoing love affair with sandwiches.