Our journey has revolved largely around family … meeting Westi and Mike in Utah, visiting Dennis and Nancy in Rockport, moving Nicole to Texas, and now … my family in the mid-west. We’re “camped” in my brother’s driveway inside a good size fenced yard. Happy dogs! My mom and dad live nearby and they let the dogs in the house. Dottie and Ginger even get to be on the furniture. Happy dogs! As I type, Steve and I are driving into Detroit with my dad to visit the Eastern Market and the Renaissance Center, and take a boat ride on the Detroit River. We’re hoping the air card provides us with an internet connection so we can connect with the Senior Computer Center this afternoon for a Skype and web cam demo while we’re cruising international waters!
Other highlights so far: Mom and Dad took us to a wonderful Detroit Symphony free concert in the park. The conductor did an incredible job drawing in the audience. It’s not every day you see a grandpa (my dad) and his grandaughter (my niece, Shelly) waltzing in a park to a symphony orchestra! We’ve also been treated to some doggie day care (not a small thing with Miss Dottie in heat!) so we could spend an afternoon canoeing on the Huron River (a lovely green wooded river directly under the Detroit Metro flight path, adjacent to freeways and train tracks) and an evening driving around my growing-up hometown and visiting with my high school girlfriends (thank you to my sweet, patient, tolerant husband!) My sister, Michele, and her husband and cats, visited for several days. Cats and dogs are doing great together! Mom took all the girls to a Victorian Tea House for lunch where we all drank tea and wore fancy hats, and last night, I took the girls (nieces, not dogs) to a book release party (Breaking Dawn by Stephanie Meyers). It was amazing… they were so excited they were pretend hyperventilating. Jill won second place in the trivia contest and then stayed up all night reading. When last seen, she was still reading on Grandma’s couch. Shelly had her book open but was sound asleep. The car is stopped and they’re waiting for me. Signing off for now…
