December 30, 2005
58th Creampie Stories: Creampie Leftovers
I hesitated before writing this, because I was unsure that I wanted to think about what happened again. But now, a little more than a week afterwards, I find I am fantasizing about it and I am thinking about how to do it again.
It all came about because my son’s soccer club elected to send teams to the NEYSO Alamo Classic. This is an annual tournament, held in San Antonio over Thanksgiving Weekend. We weren’t sure what to expect, beyond being annoyed that we couldn’t spend Thanksgiving at home doing the traditional meal because our first match was early on Friday.
We decided to celebrate Thanksgiving on Wednesday, the day before the official holiday. It was kind of pleasant, skipping work to put up Christmas lights and gorge myself on turkey. We watched the Macy’s parade on Thursday (Katie Couric is a BABE!) and then headed off down I-10. We brought our new dog with us, having selected a pet-friendly motel.
As it happened, my mother-in-law flew to San Antonio to watch the tourney too. We checked into our motel and then went off to collect her. Originally, my parents were going to come, but when my mom had medication problems, Anne stepped in to attend in their place.
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