2013 Project 52, Week 48: Thanksgiving Travel Extravaganza!

Week 48: November 26 - December 2

2013 was the first year since we've been in New York that both Sharon and I have had the Thanksgiving holiday entirely off and free. So what did we do with all of this free time? We flew from New York to Atlanta to Nashville and back.

We spent a few days in Atlanta with my parents and brother, eating my mom's delicious cooking and then hiking the trail up Kennesaw Mountain (a strange thing to do on Thanksgiving, I guess, but a marked improvement from some previous Tsay family Thanksgivings I can remember, like dining at such fine culinary institutions as Golden Corral).

Happy Thanksgiving!

"I can't believe we hiked all the way up here for Thanksgiving!"

I'm collecting photos of me taking photos of Sharon looking at me through lenses.

Major discovery of the holiday: pomegranates!

The day after Thanksgiving, we departed from Atlanta and drove to a cabin two hours outside of Nashville to meet up with the Pierce clan at Land Between the Lakes in Kentucky. Having lived in the bustling city for the last few years, staying in the quiet cabin in the countryside was really a stark change. We're so used to the massive light pollution around our city habitat that the sheer darkness of the woods and night sky was actually kind of breathtaking. We took the opportunity to try my hand at some star photography:

I don't know constellations. I'm sure they're there?

The lake itself is such a gorgeous locale. The cabin, seated up a hill from Lake Kentucky, had a dock down by the water, and we went each day to walk the Holladays' dogs and skip some stones.

Sometimes the week's Project entry takes some setting up and some doing. And then sometimes you just walk into it.

Holladays at the Lake

11mm (DX) : ISO 200 : f/8 : 1/40s
Pier on Kentucky Lake

It hardly needs to be said that the holidays are for family, and it was a real treat to get away from our normal busyness and see our beloved sisters and brothers and moms and dads. All the travel craziness worked out even better than if we had tried to plan it. We may not get a Thanksgiving holiday so available like this again, but future ones will have a high bar to follow. Hope you all had a restful and great Thanksgiving, too, dear readers.

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