Awake: 6:24am Sleep 6+07 overnight snow…. 4” overnight @ Indiana, PA.
We nearly made this holiday visit without snow; so instead of a white Christmas we end up having a white New Year’s Day. After breakfast, I use the broom in back of the van to clean snow off the rest of the van.
As luck would have it, we were in time this morning to witness Matthew playing the role of a Priest, complete with makeshift altar, priestly gown, chalice, unleavened bread, etc. Melissa, prompted him a little on the procedures, Nick served as a deacon & read the Gospel & we all lined up to drink the imaginary wine & take the host of unleavened bread. Melissa makes altar bread once a month for the church and usually manages to make an extra pan for Matthew. We were all quite impressed with his knowledge.
About 2:30pm, we all go swimming @ the Comfort Inn ½ mile from the Super 8 motel; all except Melissa & Nathan (they stayed home as we would have been one car seat short and also Melissa was not feeling very good. The photographer, that’s me, stayed out of the water. Well, somebody had to take pictures. What fun they had; there were (5) adults for (3) children & all those big smiles told me that these kids & adults were having a splendidly good time. They were in the water for about (2) hrs. The only downside of this adventure, Eriko lost one of her hard contact lenses. We searched off & on for an extra (30) min to no avail. The water was blue & the contact a blue tinge; tough conditions. However, we did notify the personnel on duty & told them where we could be reached; we heard nada.
As we were casually sitting around the living room, Eriko presented the scarf she had been knitting to Melissa, “this is for you” she warmly said. What a pleasant surprise for Melissa!
Tonight we played our last game of: “Loaded Questions” for awhile. These guys are getting much too smart for us seniors; they write their answers emulating another family member & that confuses the issue but @ the same time, enhances the challenge. It’s been a fun game for our family.
Lights out: 12:51am
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