It’s hard to believe that Chris will graduate in the spring but the time has come and he requested a suit for interviews. We got up early on Friday and headed out in search of a suit, ties, shirts, socks, a belt, and dress shoes. We arrived about 15 minutes after the stores opened and the suit section was thankfully mostly empty. A salesman explained what to look for and how to evaluate fit which made our job a little easier, still it took us nearly 3 hours to accomplish the task as neither of us has had any experience buying suits.

My sister and her family joined us for the rest of the day in Salem, MA. While they visited the Salem Witch museum Jason and I popped into the Peabody Essex where I found a fantastic exhibit of origami (there might have been some paper purchased in the gift shop as well). Together we visited the brewery for lunch, the pirate museum, the oldest candy shop in the US and the house of the seven gables. After an amazingly warm Thanksgiving Day, Friday seemed bitterly cold and even more so on the ride home as their van was without heat. We finished the day off with a delicious meal at a local Indian restaurant for which the boys joined us. How my niece talked Daniel into that I’ll never know but it was definitely fun to have the whole crew there.