November 27, 2014. Riviera Maya, Mexico. Thanksgiving Day 2014.

We spend them summer in Nova Scotia with Gill but today Gill visited the family at our resort on the Riviera Maya. Gill was attending a wedding at Dreams Tulum, another resort down the shore. The wedding was yesterday so today she took a cab and spent part of the day with us. Gill lives in Toronto so it was an unusual event for us all to be at the same shore in Mexico the same week of November. The rest of the family had not seen Gill for several years so it was a festive day to spend part of the day together. The day was unusual for Thanksgiving. No turkey and no football. Instead, all twelve of us ate lunch together with Gill, then spent the rest of the afternoon sitting by the pool and talking. The girls came and went and talked and read. After Gill left at 4:00 we drifted off one by one, only to congregate again in our suite for cocktails at 6:00. Zen, an Asian restaurant was our choice for Thanksgiving dinner. One of the larger restaurants served a traditional dinner but we decided to save the turkey for another year. We enjoyed the sushi and sashimi and the Pad Tai. And we were grateful to be together with Gill for Thanksgiving, 2014.