Orange Friday

Orange Friday (the day following Thanksgiving Day) ended with a cobalt, purple, crimson, orange and yellow sunset above the Sacramento Valley.

While some chose to get up early to stand in lines at shopping centers, we chose to rise late, eat pancakes in our pajamas, hike to Folsom Lake, play ping pong, shoot arrows at targets, take silly pictures of cousins and watch a college football game (my team lost).

Then, everyone sat around the TV to see the new Home Alone movie, but when someone said, “You oughta see the sunset,” cameras and cell phones were grabbed and we rushed out onto the porch.

We didn’t save a dime at a sale, but what we experienced on Orange Friday was far more valuable.