Awake: 7:02am Temp 51 Cloudy Overnight @ Grand Junction, CO
We take a 50 min walk for exercise through the campground & on some of the
Old Spanish Trail that runs through the Grand Junction area.
Melissa gives us a quick call to alert us that our mail should arrive
tomorrow.
Call Orlie in Parachute, CO to confirm a visit with him tomorrow.
Take the Dell computer to the campground laundry room to check e-mail.
Visit Tom & Marge @ 12:40pm. Tom & I drive over to his Credit Union where,
with his influence, I cash a few checks.
When we return to Tom’s house, a friend of theirs, Kay, visits & we sit in
the kitchen & talk for over an hr. Some interesting & completely out of my
league conversation ensues about “hair” that is difficult for me to
comprehend.
@5:15pm the four of us ride to the restaurant: Olive Garden (12 min) for
dinner. Kathy & I share an eggplant parmesan plate while Tom has his
favorite, lasagna & Marge has her favorite, chicken parmesan. Tom and
Marge have lived in GJ for 40 years, both have taught school, Tom for 37
years and Marge a few less, and both have been active in their church and
children’s schools, so it doesn’t take long before they are greeting and
being greeted by people they know. This happens wherever they go, of
course.
After dinner we go back to Tom & Marge’s house where they look through one
of our two photo albums from the yr 2004. A lot of discussion takes place
during the flipping of these photo pages.
Then we watch part of a video that was professionally made for their son
John & his wife Marsha of their childhood, meeting, and wedding; a very
nice keepsake. At my insistence, we then watch some of their 70’s home
movies, which were transferred from super 8mm to video, of their children.
Going back in time is always an interesting thing for us to see. Back to
our bus @ 9:55pm.
We watch ½ of the movie on cable: “Viridiana.” T’was a pity we missed the
1st half.
High temp today=73 Lights out: 11:30pm
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