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Dinner with Inlaws
Nov. 28th, 2025 06:31 amThanksgiving triplog #13
Camp Hill, PA · Wed, 26 Nov 2025. 12:30am.
We arrived in the Harrisburg, PA area this afternoon, a day early, after changing our plans when some of our visiting plans fell through. That means we now have five nights with my inlaws, Hawk's parents.
Ordinarily yellow flags would pop up about visiting anyone for this long, especially when we're staying in their house. But Hawk's parents are pleasant people, their minds not dulled by age and their personalities not strained by sharp swerves to the political hard right, as is so common among many older people. And, because they still live in a big house, we have our own bedroom on the upper floor when we visit, so there's privacy when we sleep— and anytime during the day when we want to retreat to ourselves.
This evening the four of us went out to eat together at a new Japanese restaurant in town. They offer an all-you-can-eat sushi and hibachi buffet. The price is very reasonable— at least by our SF Bay Area standards. And going out for sushi together is a tradition we enjoy together when visiting my inlaws. You see, in my inlaws' family, only MIL like fish. FIL hates it, Hawk hates it, BIL hates it. So it's only when I visit that MIL has anyone to enjoy sushi with. Though it seems that now with this pretty good surf-and-turf restaurant open MIL should be able to cadge FIL into going there more than the once a year we visit. 😅
After dinner we stayed up late (back at the house), chatting. We were all up, chatting, until after midnight! Apparently staying up until midnight or later is a regular thing for MIL. She wrestles with some form of insomnia. But staying up late is tough for me, thirty years her junior! Still, I enjoyed the conversation this evening. And now I'm upstairs in our private room (where Hawk is already asleep) winding down for the night.
Camp Hill, PA · Wed, 26 Nov 2025. 12:30am.
We arrived in the Harrisburg, PA area this afternoon, a day early, after changing our plans when some of our visiting plans fell through. That means we now have five nights with my inlaws, Hawk's parents.
Ordinarily yellow flags would pop up about visiting anyone for this long, especially when we're staying in their house. But Hawk's parents are pleasant people, their minds not dulled by age and their personalities not strained by sharp swerves to the political hard right, as is so common among many older people. And, because they still live in a big house, we have our own bedroom on the upper floor when we visit, so there's privacy when we sleep— and anytime during the day when we want to retreat to ourselves.
This evening the four of us went out to eat together at a new Japanese restaurant in town. They offer an all-you-can-eat sushi and hibachi buffet. The price is very reasonable— at least by our SF Bay Area standards. And going out for sushi together is a tradition we enjoy together when visiting my inlaws. You see, in my inlaws' family, only MIL like fish. FIL hates it, Hawk hates it, BIL hates it. So it's only when I visit that MIL has anyone to enjoy sushi with. Though it seems that now with this pretty good surf-and-turf restaurant open MIL should be able to cadge FIL into going there more than the once a year we visit. 😅
After dinner we stayed up late (back at the house), chatting. We were all up, chatting, until after midnight! Apparently staying up until midnight or later is a regular thing for MIL. She wrestles with some form of insomnia. But staying up late is tough for me, thirty years her junior! Still, I enjoyed the conversation this evening. And now I'm upstairs in our private room (where Hawk is already asleep) winding down for the night.
