Day 7 of vacation

Well I had intended to post something every day of this vacation and it just did not happen. Here I am at day 7 and only 5 more days left to go.

I am missing my husband terribly and can't wait to get back home to him. He was actually here this past weekend from Thurs.-Sun. He has a cold and is extremely tired with no desire to talk to me which makes me very sad. At this point I can say that I don't think I will go away this long again with out him.

Today when I woke up it was cloudy and dreary looking outside as it had rained the night before. I had intentions of taking the boys to Baugher's to pick either strawberries or cherries. All I wanted was a quart and of course I only wanted to do it for the pictures. I am a scrapbooker at heart. But instead I hung out for a few hours at my parent's house with my boys, showered, called my grandmother, and went and picked her up for lunch. I had intentions of taking her to lunch but she insisted on buying us lunch because she doesn't see us very often and she has no intentions on getting on a plane and coming to visit. My grandmother is 80 years old and is scared to fly. This also makes me sad because I think she would enjoy coming to my house and seeing where I live.

Lunch was great. We went to a place that I used to go with my maternal grandparents and I remember ordering a "Chocolate, Monkey, Poop" as my grandfather would call it. It was called a CMP sundae, which stood for Chocolate, Marshmallow, and Peanut Butter. My grandfather passed away when I was 5 years old but this is one of the fond memories that I have of him. So it was just a nice place to be. The last time I was there was with my husband. We had gotten married and 2 days later we were getting ready to drive to FL where we would be living. This was the last place we ate for breakfast before heading south.

After lunch I needed to find a rechargable battery for my digital camera. So off to the mall to go to Ritz Camera. They did not have the battery I needed and sent us to Battery Warehouse. They had he battery that I needed but with it being a rechargable battery and I am on vacation I don't have a way to recharge it, so I had to purchase disposalbe batteries. I ended up purchasing litichum (sp?) batteries to get me through the rest of this week. Regular batteries only last me about 2 days in the camera and these batteries are supposed to be 7X longer. I hope so because I spent too much money on batteries today.

Next we were off to take my grandmother back home. As we were dropping her off she handed me money to give to the boys to spend on what ever they wanted while we are in Gettysburg the next few days. That was so sweet of her.

Once we got back to my parent's house we had about an hour to kill and of course neither of the boys were interested in naps so they just hung out, had a snack and watched TV.

Jo Ann called and we met her and Levi at Greenmount Bowl to bowl a game of duckpins. Reed is very impatient about waiting for his turn. But the boys had fun with their new experience of duck pins, something we don't have in FL.

We went to dinner at J and P's with mom as dad had stuff to do at the firehouse.

After dinner I took Tyler for ice cream where we met up with Shelley and Emily. I had a great time chatting with Shelley while Tyler played with the kids that were there.