Christmas has always been a time for being with family and friends and this year was no exception to that. On Saturday, 16th, we drove to Ellicott City, Md. to my niece's, Robin and her husband, Bob's house for a family get together. We had a wonderful dinner of ham and steamed shrimp, salads, macaroni and cheese plus and then later homemade ice cream, coconut cake and cookies. It was a very nice day of being with family. Gifts were exchanged and kids played together. Todd and his family were there and since Todd and Beth had another evening party to go to, Parker and Gabi came back to the motor home with us to spend the night.
Bree, Leah, Larry, Jack, Robin and Beth
Todd, Larry and Beth
Parker and Larry
Gabi and Jack
Brent, Jack and Bob
Robin, Jack and Bree
Bob, Gabi and Parker
Brent and Laura
Sunday, 17th, was almost nonstop from morning to night. We met Todd and Beth near Frederick at a Wegman's grocery store at 8:30am to get the kids back to them to take home. Tom and I then headed to Taneytown to get some air in the Jeeps tires. We thought we had some time to kill so we stopped at a Dunkin Donuts to get a cup of coffee. We were biding time until church time at our former church which was 10:30 when we had attended prior to moving to Florida. While drinking our coffee I checked on the church's website and found that the service time was 10 am and it was a few minutes before 10. We hurriedly jumped in the car and drove the several miles to church arriving after the service had started. It was so nice being at this church service and seeing our former church family. In the afternoon we drove to Westminster to pick up my aunt Dotty Frock, my dad's 88 years old sister, to take her to Rock Salt Grille in Westminster where Larry, my brother, and Joanne met us for dinner together . After dinner, Tom and I took aunt Dotty home and spent a little time visiting before moving on. From Westminster we drove to Kingsdale area of Pennsylvania to visit Miny Cluck, a gal that worked with Tom in his working years, and her husband, Len. We had a nice visit with coffee and desserts. Whee, were ever busy on this day!
Today, Monday 18th, we went to Emmitsburg, Md. where we met up with a longtime friend, Peggy Conrad and her daughter, Tammy, and Larry and Joanne for lunch at
Carriage House Restaurant.
Peggy, Larry and I grew up together and our families were together every year at Christmastime that we could ever remember. Peggy's husband, Grover, had just passed away about a month ago. We always enjoy bring together catching up and reminiscing. After about 3 hours we said good bye and went our own ways hoping to be together next year. After these 3 busy days we will be leaving this campground tomorrow to go to Todd and Beth's . The weather has gotten a little warmer each day, today temps were near 50 degrees and should not fall below freezing tonight but the skies have been gray and dreary most of the time.
