Happy Thanksgiving!
We are back from the Emergency Food Network Thanksgiving Day dinner for the homeless. It was held in the grand ballroom of the Temple Theatre (1926) - completely restored place with cool art deco Egyptian interior. Amazing place - a former Masonic temple. The Tacoma Jazz Ensemble was on the stage playing jazz and holiday classics. There were LOTS of volunteers! That was really good to see. Rita and I were there only because Jaxi thought enough to sign us all up as volunteers on Nov. 1st. You have to sign up early because they can only take so many volunteers - isn't that freaking great?? I really like knowing that I live in a world where someone has to work hard to coordinate all of the volunteers. We were on drinks duty. The director said that no one leaves a pitcher of water at the table - everyone is personally served and special. There were a lot of families there. There were a lot of retired people who live in the hotels in the area too. People raved about the food. The turkeys were actually smoked and cooked by volunteers. You really got the sense that people cared about what they were doing. And we were out in a couple of hours. We could have been home by 2:00 but we ran a few errands. Rita was pretty amazed by the whole thing and is napping now. J is really good at finding opportunities like this, so that is another thing on my list that I am greatful for: she walks like she talks and keeps it fun.
