Thanksgiving highlights

We spent the holiday weekend in Grand Rapids at our aunts' house. A great time was had by all: the food was splendid, and the company was very good, too.

However, the highlight of my weekend came on Wednesday night, when Angela, Evan, Aunt Janette, and me were playing instruments that Angela had brought on Evan's request. I was on the bamboo rattle, Evan was croaking out time with a wooden frog, Aunt Janette was on the "Hit Stix" (a weirdo toy from the 80's that my mom salvaged from somewhere), and Angela was on recorder.

While playing we discovered that Evan mostly liked "The Drunken Sailor" song. We played it over and over, at varying tempos. We played it over and over, substituting people's names --"What do you do with a drunken daddy, what do you do with a drunken daddy, what do you do with a drunken daddy, early in the morning!"

The best part came when we were about to launch into playing it again, and Evan insisted on counting us off: "1, 2, 3, 4, 5.... Break it down! TAKE IT!" We were all laughing so hard we could barely play.