Yesterday Nina drove south for the day. She stopped in Layton to visit with a friend and have lunch at her favorite restaurant (Mimi’s) and then continued south to Orem to pick up three grandchildren: Christopher, Michael, and Danielle (aka Blitzen). They will be here with us for the next week or so while their parents flit around England and Switzerland. Nina and the grandkids got home late last night. We’ve had a fun day today. The weather was lovely. The kids played around the house in the morning mostly downstairs with the various toys and stuff. Michael is a major Star Trek fan and enjoyed watching several episodes of Season One of the original series. Nina needed to go help out at the women’s prison in the afternoon so when she left, we left for a stop at the bank, then to a scrap booking store for some supplies for Danielle, then to a sporting goods store for a badminton / volleyball set and other outside toys, and finally a stop at Arby’s and Taco Bell for lunch. After Nina arrived home we went down to Pocatello’s annual River Festival. The kids had a good time on the huge slide and the rock climbing wall. After that we had dinner at Applebee’s and then came home. The kids are watching a video and are pretty tuckered out. We had a very pleasant Saturday. It’s fun to have the grandkids around!
It’s also good to be back home. I’ve pretty well recovered from jet lag and the trip to Manila. The week at work was very busy with a lot of catchup after having been gone for two weeks. I did take Monday as a recovery day. We drove over to Soda Springs in the morning to visit with mom and dad and then I mowed the grass in the back yard. Tuesday morning it was back to work. The routine of home is now back in motion and I’m glad to be here. I did hear from a person at our office in Manila who had stumbled across my blog. She wrote a nice note and told me that she also kept a blog — but it was written in Tagalog. That would be hard for me to read! I asked her to send me the URL, however, because I can see how well the Google translator works.
Tomorrow afternoon we’ll go to Soda Springs for dinner with my folks. They enjoy getting to see and spend some time with the grandkids. Life is indeed back to normal!