Awake: 7:44am Temp 65 sleep 7+38 overcast overnight @ Nicktown.
Mid morning: a few phone calls. 1st cousin Florentz called & we planned a casual get together sometime later this week. I called for my sister Corinne but she was out visiting Carlene & Bob for the day. Gary C. called from St. Augustine; we discussed his garage hot water heating element that recently failed.... & a problem with their portable generator. Sometime later, Gary invited us to have dinner @ their place on Wednesday.
Our Sprint cell phone & Air Card contract is up... & we have been waiting patiently for the time to switch over to Verizon services. For us in our travels, most of the time, Sprint coverage has been good if we were near U.S. highways & Interstates &, of course, larger cities. But back here in PA & other areas of the east, not so good.
So we motored to Indiana to visit the Verizon wireless store. Arthur, the Sales Consultant, spent some time getting our Sprint cell phone # transferred over to Verizon, & selecting a new cell phone & getting all the paperwork in order to get the customary discounts for a 1st time Verizon cell phone owner.
Meanwhile, before visiting the Verizon store, we had done our grocery shopping @ Wal-Mart & figured this changeover would be rather simple & quick....it was neither. Arthur must have re-typed our paperwork at least (4) times & made numerous cell phone calls along the way.
Finally we were finished but, the cell phone we had selected was without a battery; Arthur volunteered to have it mailed to our Nicktown address on Monday. And finally, we visited Melissa, Kevin & our (4) grandsons. Yes, we were quite late but the boys haven't forgotten us after being away for over (6) months.
Little Gregory was so friendly & had such cute smiles for both of us; I couldn't resist taking a few photos.
In Kevin's spare time, he talked of how the boys will be placed on their bikes when they do the (200+) miles rails to trails trip from McKeesport, PA to Baltimore, MD this spring. K & I volunteered to pick up their van @ McKeesport & then drive it to Baltimore so they can drive themselves back home. Melissa & Kevin have already done a test run of (8) miles without Kinley (their dog), but they do intend to take Kinley running alongside Kevin's bike. Here is a photo similar to the one Kevin has.
Nathan is beginning to talk a lot; just about everything he sees: colors, alphabet letters, numbers, cars, trucks, etc; he will tell us what it is & he's also using short sentences. Yeah, that's him on the junior trampoline.
Andrew continues to talk very well; he is always building something, be it with Legos, blocks, magnets, puzzles, etc. His interest in cars, trucks, airplanes, etc has not wavered whatsoever.
Andrew is on the left
Matthew continued his interest in electricity; I didn't want to rush into anything electrical just yet with him, but will do so next visit I'm sure. This time, he & Kathy played several games of Monopoly Junior & later, on the 3rd floor, he joined Andrew & me & played on the massive Brio track layout.
Then it was time for the boy's showers & that's our clue to say our goodbyes for now. We were glad that they remembered us so well & we'll look forward to spending more time with them throughout the summer & fall months.
Back @ our coach, Nick Skyped us from Seattle; he & Jerry were right there looking @ our mugs. We wished Jerry a "Happy 4th Birthday" on the occasion of this occasion. So far this day, Jerry has been very busy with Nick. Perhaps he wanted his father's continued attention or was getting tired, but Jerry began to act out a bit, taking it out on Nick, of course. Thus, Jerry was sent to time out. We talked with Nick for a good (15) min after that & then decided to Skype later in the week.
Dinner: split pea soup, oyster crackers, cantaloupe & cutie oranges. Late evening; we watched 1/5 of the movie: "The River" & decided....it was not for us.
Lights out: 12:33am.
Mid morning: a few phone calls. 1st cousin Florentz called & we planned a casual get together sometime later this week. I called for my sister Corinne but she was out visiting Carlene & Bob for the day. Gary C. called from St. Augustine; we discussed his garage hot water heating element that recently failed.... & a problem with their portable generator. Sometime later, Gary invited us to have dinner @ their place on Wednesday.
Our Sprint cell phone & Air Card contract is up... & we have been waiting patiently for the time to switch over to Verizon services. For us in our travels, most of the time, Sprint coverage has been good if we were near U.S. highways & Interstates &, of course, larger cities. But back here in PA & other areas of the east, not so good.
So we motored to Indiana to visit the Verizon wireless store. Arthur, the Sales Consultant, spent some time getting our Sprint cell phone # transferred over to Verizon, & selecting a new cell phone & getting all the paperwork in order to get the customary discounts for a 1st time Verizon cell phone owner.
Meanwhile, before visiting the Verizon store, we had done our grocery shopping @ Wal-Mart & figured this changeover would be rather simple & quick....it was neither. Arthur must have re-typed our paperwork at least (4) times & made numerous cell phone calls along the way.
Finally we were finished but, the cell phone we had selected was without a battery; Arthur volunteered to have it mailed to our Nicktown address on Monday. And finally, we visited Melissa, Kevin & our (4) grandsons. Yes, we were quite late but the boys haven't forgotten us after being away for over (6) months.
Little Gregory was so friendly & had such cute smiles for both of us; I couldn't resist taking a few photos.
In Kevin's spare time, he talked of how the boys will be placed on their bikes when they do the (200+) miles rails to trails trip from McKeesport, PA to Baltimore, MD this spring. K & I volunteered to pick up their van @ McKeesport & then drive it to Baltimore so they can drive themselves back home. Melissa & Kevin have already done a test run of (8) miles without Kinley (their dog), but they do intend to take Kinley running alongside Kevin's bike. Here is a photo similar to the one Kevin has.
Nathan is beginning to talk a lot; just about everything he sees: colors, alphabet letters, numbers, cars, trucks, etc; he will tell us what it is & he's also using short sentences. Yeah, that's him on the junior trampoline.
Andrew continues to talk very well; he is always building something, be it with Legos, blocks, magnets, puzzles, etc. His interest in cars, trucks, airplanes, etc has not wavered whatsoever.
Andrew is on the left
Matthew continued his interest in electricity; I didn't want to rush into anything electrical just yet with him, but will do so next visit I'm sure. This time, he & Kathy played several games of Monopoly Junior & later, on the 3rd floor, he joined Andrew & me & played on the massive Brio track layout.
Then it was time for the boy's showers & that's our clue to say our goodbyes for now. We were glad that they remembered us so well & we'll look forward to spending more time with them throughout the summer & fall months. Back @ our coach, Nick Skyped us from Seattle; he & Jerry were right there looking @ our mugs. We wished Jerry a "Happy 4th Birthday" on the occasion of this occasion. So far this day, Jerry has been very busy with Nick. Perhaps he wanted his father's continued attention or was getting tired, but Jerry began to act out a bit, taking it out on Nick, of course. Thus, Jerry was sent to time out. We talked with Nick for a good (15) min after that & then decided to Skype later in the week.
Dinner: split pea soup, oyster crackers, cantaloupe & cutie oranges. Late evening; we watched 1/5 of the movie: "The River" & decided....it was not for us.
Lights out: 12:33am.
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