Happy Travels...

Just a quick update...and yes, this is even worse than Dunkin' Donuts...I just did lots of grocery shopping at WalMart, which is about 24 miles away from the lake house. No, there isn't anything closer except an albeit well-0stocked but extremely overpriced convenience store connected to a gas station about six miles from the house, so we save that for dire emergencies.

I did decide just for the heck of it to pull into the Bedford County Visitors Bureau parking lot to see if by chance they had wireless, and OBVIOUSLY they do! Yipee. Of course that means that this was somewhat pre-meditated blogging, as I brought the computer along.

The ride was long, and Tianna and her friend Blair decided to make the most of it by sleeping, a good idea, as the car was overfull. In addition to the two of them, we had Nicole and a friend, Howie driving, me scrunched in front and my mother sharing the back row with the older girls. Oh, we did bring the dog and our two unconfined cats as well. We had to take roll call every time we made a pit stop.

Howie's older sister and her two grandchildren (fine for her, but shocking for me when I realized that made me a great aunt), a funny, wonderful friend from college and her eleven year old daughter and Matt and Carolyn are also either already here or on the way.

We are eating, talking, laughing, reading, visiting and relaxing (Yes, I DO know how to do that). We went to the Cliffs yesterday, aptly named where there are low, medium and high levels to jump or flip from. Nicole is annoyed because she believed Tianna's friend when she said she would pay her ten bucks to go off the high ledge,and I am waiting for Matt to cause me maternal heart failure when he does an inverted flip of some kind...

It is a blessing and joy to spend time hanging out with friends and family. And my mother is SO pleased the dog came along.

Peace!