I feel like maybe some of you were worried about the fact that we were camping over the holiday week, and that you thought we might have missed out on a real meal.

Let me assure you… we had a real meal… with real gravy and real mashed potatoes…

The reason we were camping near Solvang is so that a bunch of us could visit my wife’s aunt without all having to sleep in her house. But we had a real table with real silverware and glasses and everything.

Trust me, we had plenty of food.

There was even a healthy kale salad. Don’t worry, I didn’t fill up on that… and don’t forget we had the cheese turkey and the turkey and minion cookie snacks that I showed in an earlier post.

You know… just in case we ran out of pie…

We even had festive holiday decorations and candles.

The dogs… our dog, Shiloh on the left, and Riley, her best friend, that belongs to uncle Bert and aunt Sharon, could smell all that food cooking.

They were very interested… wait, you switched sides… you are going to confuse people… bad dogs!

Here is a view from the back porch of the house where we had dinner.

And there is the same view later on. Solvang is located in gentle, rolling hills and surrounded by wine vineyards.

Mollie took some very artistic shots of the chandelier…

… because she is my kid, so she is artsy… and she even knows how to take pictures without using the auto setting like I always do.

But I still managed to capture a pretty good picture of some succulents growing in a little pot out front…

… and a photo of a frog doing yoga.

But Mollie took the two pictures of me, and I think, as a before-and-after set of photos… this one really captures the real me… after I ate way too much.