Awake: 6:19am Temp 29 sleep 6+15 clear overnight @ Indiana, PA.
Our complimentary hotel breakfast has slimmed down to only an English
muffin with butter & jelly. That is, unless you want to eat sweet & sugary
donuts. But that’s ok, we have a refrigerator & microwave in our room so
we’ll be making other plans for breakfast.
Kathy called Melissa for the latest food shopping request but their line
was busy. The next call is answered by: “come on over!” En route to the
Footes, we make a quick stop @ the latest new Starbucks Coffee shop in
town & use that Starbucks card. Our timing was good as lunch was ready to
be served on the exquisite Foote dining room table when we arrive. The
chicken salad with a lot of fresh strawberries made up for a, not so good
breakfast.
Kevin joined us for lunch & then returned to work @ the university. After
lunch, Zack & Nick went on line with their computers searching for
Christmas gifts on the Internet. While they are busy doing that, Katrina
is busy burning calories on the 15 degree inclined treadmill located in
the library/sunroom area; Kathy is playing with Matthew; I am entertaining
little Jerry while holding him & watching the computer action from the
boys; Melissa is carrying Andrew, fast asleep in a sling, while she is
preparing a cake for Matthew’s birthday being celebrated mid afternoon.
Eriko has gone upstairs to catch a fast wink & perhaps overcome her jet
lag.
Mid afternoon: Kevin returns home again: Matthew’s cake, shaped like a
large dump truck which he helped decorate, is brought into the exquisite
dining room with 3 lit candles. The traditional birthday song is sung, a
few presents are presented & we all eat a sample of his truck cake with
ice cream.
5:10pm dinner: Tacos: whole wheat and regular soft shells and hard shells
with a choice of ground beef or chicken, lettuce, cheese, tomato, & sour
cream. Evening time, we talked a lot while the young people showered with
help from their respective mothers/fathers, then the “goodnights” & off to
their bedrooms they go.
Later evening, we slightly older ones, played the game of: “Loaded
Questions” which was a lot of fun. Around 10:30pm, us (2) seniors elected
to return to our hotel haven for the night. It was another good day.
Lights out: 12:37am
Leave a comment