Home Again

We made it home yesterday, incident-free by God's grace (except for a near collision with a pick-up truck that changed lanes without looking...thankfully, my husband is a good defensive driver.)

We had a wonderful week, drove about 1,550 miles, spent about 24 hours in the car alone together (...conflict-free, I might add :-), and enjoyed our time visiting family and friends.

A highlight of the trip was the chance to stop briefly at the Opryland Hotel in Nashville; it was the place where we became engaged on March 4, 2000! We took pictures of the very place where Tim proposed to me and the loveseat (aptly named!) off one of the lobbies where we sat and talked after he proposed, talking of our future together (...you know, the future we assumed would be in California.) We also bought a magnet of the hotel, thereby filling in the most notable hole in our magnet collection; when we got engaged, we had no idea that collecting magnets of places would become a memorable thing for us.

Back in Kansas, we picked the puppies up from their kennel; they were glad to see us but were obviously well cared for in our absence; each of them seemed to weigh a couple of pounds more than they did when we dropped them off!

(But, then--so do we.)

And then we watched Kansas get beat by Missouri in one of college football's longest-running rivalries. (...but that's too depressing to talk about.)

Two more trips to Saint Louis for me and the Bible study I've been leading will be over.

I don't think we'll ever get all the leaves raked.

Have a great week!