We are back from Thanksgiving trip to Indiana Pennsylvania to visit Laura and Thomas. But didn't we just see Laura in Chicago a couple weeks ago? Yep. We left Warsaw as soon as I got out of work and headed east, got there pretty late as we usually do. We had a nice Thanksgiving visit with them, possibly highlighted most of all by the first time Beth and me playing "Cards Against Humanity" with them. I made Thomas just about lose it at one point: to his card "It turned out that _____-man was neither the hero we wanted nor needed." I played the card "insatiable bloodlust." For a graphic novel fan that must have been quite a mental picture because he could barely go on after that. We all got to the point where we were laughing so hard we couldn't go on several times. In the morning after that Alex told us we were pretty noisy and he heard us say some inappropriate things. Dear me, I hope he didn't hear too much. Friday it was an unusually warm day so we all headed out to a nearby park/lake with a dam. We did a little hiking, waking the dog, hit the playgrounds, some exploring, a bit of geocaching. The cache at the park required a bit of hiking, climbing, and a little bushwacking, which intrigued Thomas so the next day we went off together to do some urban caching. We drove all through the town looking for benchmarks and caches (didn't find the benchmarks we were supposed to find, but did find several caches), until one hidden somewhere at the fairgrounds stumped us. We must have spent an hour looking for it. He doesn't like to not find something as much as I don't. But it was getting late and rainy so we eventually gave up. Alex found the Battle Ball game set in the basement so we learned how to play that and had some epic battles. While we were out the ladies took the kids shopping or something. Later in the afternoon we took our leave and headed to somewhere outside Pittsburgh, where we have learned that our good friends the Caspers have moved. Brian is now a civilian but he still works for the navy in something to do with procurement or materials development, and he does this from the Pittsburgh area now. So since we were in the area we spent the evening at their house and spent the night. It was almost like we've been together all along, it was really just like old times and we all just had a great time. Their little girl is now graduating from high school (we still love to tell the story about when we had dinner together just before we left Virginia in 1999, and as we parted Gracie was strapped into her car seat and waved bye-bye to us with one finger in her nose) and their son is 14, I think. Brian also makes trips to a vendor in Indianapolis fairly regularly, so we're going to plan to get together whenever he goes there. We had a great visit with them, then hit the road again the next morning and headed home. Long drive.