More pre-Christmas fun

I know that the date of publish for this is *after* Christmas, but I have pictures and stories still from before Christmas, so there will be a few more pre-Christmas posts!

On Friday night, we joined the "TGIR" (Thank Goodness I'm Retired) Friday evening gathering with music and dancing (the picture is of many spirited participants in the "Y-M-C-A" song).

On Saturday, we had planned to cook our turkey dinner...

You may recall that we had quite a search to find the turkey -- here it is all thawed and in the bake-in bag ready to go into the oven.

Some of the completed dinner on the buffet counter -- mashed potatoes, dressing, and turkey. We also had green bean casserole, gravy, and home-made (well, RV-made) cranberry sauce.

Loaded plates - Yum!

The dinner took 7+ hours start to clean-up completion. We're not sure why, but the turkey took about twice as long as was indicated in the bake-in bag directions -- we kept on taking it out and checking the temperature and finding places that just were not anywhere near the recommended temperature. We were concerned that it could be that some parts would be very dried out, but it was all moist and delicious! And now we have lots of leftovers!