Raleigh Museum Excursion

We stopped at the Market too.
Our reason was for our favorite soap
but it looks like someone had other ideas.

Cute Christmas Napkins

I know this is a bit after the fact,
but we received these napkins for Christmas.
Aren't they cute?
They are half-circles with a print on one side and plain green on the other.
There is a line of stitching to show where the first fold should be.

Special Times

While we were at D & S's, my big brother, Gerry, and Connie included us in their travel plans.
They had been away for over two weeks, but prolonged their trip to spend an evening and a day with us. Here they are while we were having our AA meeting, actually playing Apples to Apples.

Here are two other contestants. Sadie, the dog, did not play.
She just cuddles and is cute.

Another big treat was seeing Doug and Diane Bookman.
We had not seen them since we left Minnesota in 1982,
and would be talking still if we had the chance!
What a fun time!

A Visit to Sara and Dave's House

I know that Christmas is long gone and we are in a new year,
but here are some Christmas pics anyway!
(You will have to go to my Grandkid blog to see the kids.)

Christmas Trip

We left home on Christmas Day to travel to Sara and Dave's. I had not seen them since November of 2008 and Paul, not since July of 2008, so we were really ready to see the grandkids, as well as their parents! We hustled to Amish country near Lancaster, PA, so that we could see "The Miracle of Christmas" at Sight and Sound.

This was a production of the Christmas story. It was very true to scripture, very well done with wonderful sound, sets and acting. It made the familiar story of Christmas so real. There was even an invitation for salvation given after the performance with opportunity to talk with an usher.

We certainly hope to go back again! The next Bible story is "Joseph."
We wish we could take our whole church with us!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO OUR FAVORITE SON-IN-LAW!

We love you, Dave, even if we weren't invited to the Outback with you.
Probably we would have been invited to stay with the kids,
and that would have been fine with us.

Too bad!

Confederation Bridge

Yesterday we traveled to Prince Edward Island to deliver an organ, which we bought for $20 at an auction, to the Lighthouse Baptist Church in Souris. The forecast was for high winds, rain and freezing rain for Monday night. We made our delivery, had lunch with friends (more about that later), walked in a mall and then hightailed it back across the bridge before the big blow. We had an awful crossing last November when the winds were gusting to 90 kph. This time the winds went up to 140 kph and the bridge was closed some time during the night. On the way back, I clocked the crossing time: just under 10 minutes! Boy, that was a long 10 minutes last November! Actually it would have taken longer because they knocked the speed down and we were bucking the wind. Couldn't have lasted over 20 minutes...
some of the longest 20 minutes I can remember!

I realize that I have been very negligent about getting our Christmas trip reported. Things have been a little busy and we have had computer/e-mail problems as well. The computer problems should be fixed today and I will have to get some pics posted around the other busy-ness.