Awake: 7:29am Sleep 5+52 cloudy sleep overnight @ Indiana, PA.
Literally, Kathy spent hrs this morning talking with a member of AARP (American Association of Retired People) or talking + filling in information using the computer @ the same time to obtain Medicare supplemental insurance and drug coverage. I encouraged her to take on this task being that she has more medical experience than I & she did very well. We now have the necessary insurance.
Today, we take our computer with us to the Foote Castle; hopefully, Nick will have some spare time to answer our questions & show us a few computer tricks. Arriving about 12:30am, we find Matthew lying on a couch under a blanket; he says he’s not feeling well, & Melissa tells us he has a fever. Whoa, could this be the beginning of “the bug!”
Nick does find the time this afternoon to answer some of our computer questions but not for long; other distractions take priority such as: an up-to-date photo shooting of the Kathy & Monte Kirsch family. Katie has been assigned the task of shooting our family picture with (6) cameras taking (2) photos each. One would assume (1) good photo could be selected from a choice of (12) individual shoots.
Dinner: leftover ham, leftover pizza, leftover noodles, leftover whole wheat bread, leftover hamburgers, etc.
Meanwhile, the time has come for Zack & Katie to gather their suitcases plus other bags & prepare to be driven to their respective airports. This brought up a off & on discussion about flying into different airports; some that are not as convenient as others. The Latrobe airport is a mere (45) min away from Indiana, PA. The Pittsburgh airport is a good (1.5) hrs away under reasonable traffic conditions. KT didn’t care to spend an additional $300.00 to fly into the Latrobe airport from Chicago & we don’t blame her. By the time Kathy & I had returned from that journey, the gang decided, in the future, if someone doesn’t care to fly into the Latrobe airport & chooses Pittsburgh instead, they must be responsible & pay for their own transportation to & from that airport.
Actually, Kathy kept me company as we delivered Zack to the Latrobe airport in due time; Katie & we waited until Zack went thru security, and then waved goodbye. Katie was fascinated as she had never seen an airport as small as Latrobe; an airport in miniature! We continued our journey west to the Pittsburgh airport for Katie to board her flight to Chicago. We were happy that she could join us even if just for a fast (2) & ½ days.
En route to the Foote Castle, we make a fuel stop to top off the Toyota tank @ the Get-Go station in Delmont, PA.
The remainder of the evening went kind of quick. We played a few rounds of “Loaded Questions” & then returned to our Super 8 motel.
Lights out: 11:25pm
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