Our guests departed earlier today, marking the end of a pleasant long weekend.

Thanksgiving celebration was attended by eight people. The spatchcocked turkey was a success. No one left the table hungry. The conversation flowed smoothly, with only one instance where my husband had to steer his mother’s discussion away from a potentially contentious topic.

Over the weekend, we took the opportunity to showcase the beauty of Seattle to our guests, while also spending quality time with my in-laws.

The husband's cousin is interesting. He's a struggling rock musician with a day job running the warehouse for an instrument manufacturer. He has played for rock bands, but since COVID has mostly released ambient albums. As he put it-- they had success in Sacramento. There the band regularly played in front of hundreds of people. When they toured they could never replicate that success-- San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle. In the end it was exhausting and a constant drain of money to only play to small crowds in small clubs.