A word of note that I forgot yesterday. Sunday night I got a call from my son. I had been trying to call him to let him know we would be staying with him to save some money. He said...about that. I'm getting married Thursday. What a shock. I knew he was getting serious with a girl, but I thought it would take longer than two weeks to get to this point. I will say he hadn't just met her. He's known her a long time. But once they made up their mind.... So this trip is going to be more interesting than I thought. They didn't want to wait any longer and have a four day weekend. So...we will be going to a wedding staying a day then traveling on. I'm glad I get to see them get married. I want to see all my kids get married...there's just one son left that's still waiting for the right woman to come along. It took Jacob 37 years... I can't believe I have a son that old. But I am so glad he will have a family to share his life with.

We were up early today, but really didn't get down the road until 8:30. I started driving, but Richard would only let me drive till lunch because I was looking sleepy. I get road weary, and try as I may it mesmerizes me unless I'm in heavy traffic or there is a lot going on. For some reason, I didn't think that Indianapolis, Indiana, or especially Columbus Ohio was that big. I took some video as we passed by their skyscrapers. Springfield is now 150,000 people in the actual city, the outlying areas are cuddling up next to the city limits so it is stretching out pretty big now. St. Louis doesn't seem that big to me either. I am not sure of the population of the other cities. I used to live on the east coast, but I haven't even visited there for 30 years. As we started through Ohio I noticed a sprinkling of birch trees through the woods. Oh, I miss that. Maples and birches were plentiful in Massachusetts where I used to live. As we traveled through some of the cities I noticed some really old buildings with unique architecture. Not much of that in Springfield. It goes to show you how much of a difference it can make that some towns are so much older than others. I think I'd really love Europe. I doubt if I ever get to go though.

 

The temperature in the Midwest has been awful it has been in the 90s for a few weeks now. My poor air conditioner is not keeping up. As we traveled through the Columbus area we ran into some thundershowers. The temperature dropped from 95 to 75 in about 5 to 10 minutes. As soon as we got out of the showers it climbed right back up into the 90s. It was really pouring down for a while...the video doesn't really show how bad it was. We had to drive really slow and could hardly see. We arrived at the Best Western at 3:40 and checked in. I called Rev. Monte to let him know we had made it. I am excited to meet him tonight. He's a friend I have met through the blog-site Open Salon. Seven o'clock arrived: time to meet Monte and Sue so we headed over to Denny's Classic Diner. It was a really cute place and had that Diner atmosphere. The food wasn't bad either. Monte and Sue were just as I imagined; friendly and warm. Monte is looking forward to some cool weather so he and Sue can get out on their motor cycles again. I wished they lived closer so we could visit more often. I know we would if they did. It was a great time of food and fellowship. I am so glad we met in person. I hope I get to meet some others from Open Salon. Writers are a special group of people.