Daily Archives: October 2, 2011
Landon Skyping and Broasted Chicken . . .
I was awakened at 10 by Jan closing the door after talking to some rally attendees. They apparently thought we were Nick and Terry since their SUV was parked by us because the mud by them.
It’s sometimes nice to be mistaken for royalty.
At about 11:30 we Skyped with Brandi, Lowell, and Master Landon. In a few weeks he’s gone from barely walking to running. And climbing.
Recently while at daycare, he watched a lady using a stepladder to hang some decorations. As soon as she got down and turned away, he RAN to the stepladder and clambered to the top, right up the steps.
We didn’t get a lot of good pictures today, and probably won’t in the future. He never stops moving, and with the low frame rate of our Skype signal, he’s mostly just a blur.
Lowell said he’s gotten so tall he’s wearing only 18 mos. sizes. And he’s only 13 mos. old. Looks like he’s going to be tall like his daddy.
And of course we’re really looking forward to seeing him, and everyone else, when we get back to Houston right before Thanksgiving.
After lunch Nick came over for a while and we talked over our schedule for the next month. Looks like we’ll leave here Tuesday morning and head east about 150 miles to the Smith’s Campground just south of Loudonville, OH for about a week. Then Jan and I will head back to Elkhart with Nick and Terry following a few days later after visiting some relatives.
Then sometime before the end of October, Jan and I will start a roundabout trip back to Houston, and Nick and Terry will head for Florida.
Hope they’re bracing for all the bad weather he’ll probably bring them like he did last year.
After Nick left we continued to catch up on the shows we’d DVR’d during the rally, with a couple of naps thrown in for Jan.
About 5:30 we all headed over to St. Mary’s, about 10 miles away, to have dinner at Lost in the 50’s, a great 50’s themed restaurant.
We’ve eaten there several times, but it was a first trip for Nick and Terry. We’ve always like it, and a lot of Gypsy Rally attendees raved about it, so we were happy to find that Nick and Terry really enjoyed it too.
The owner is a collector of 50’s memorabilia and displays a small part of it in a museum that’s part of the restaurant.
Although not on display at this time, he has a lot of Elvis memorabilia too, including the motorcycle Elvis road in ‘Roustabout’,
one of his pink Cadillac’s
and one of Elvis’ tour costumes, among just a few things.
We introduce ourselves to the owner and thanked him for the many gift certificates and discount coupons he donated to the Gypsy Rally.
And the meal was great too. We all had the 4 pc. broasted chicken dinner and the pieces were so big we all had leftovers.
A definite ‘don’t miss’ if you’re in the area.
Later in the evening, after we got home, we had a nice surprise from our daughter Brandi . . . a bunch of Landon pics taken at the playground.
The perfect end to a great day.
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Thought for the Day:
“Men seldom need re-educating but they often need reminding” – Edmund Burke
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