Baltimore MD

Saturday 24 October 2009

Baltimore, Maryland 61°

Rob got up quietly and went into the house. He came back at about 8:30 and said he was leaving with Chris, Rosie (age 6), and Christopher (age 11) to go to Rosie’s soccer game. Christopher is refereeing two games. I went into the house and visited with Caroline and had a cup of coffee. She was waiting for Jack (age 10) to take him to his soccer game. So, I walked the two blocks down to the field where Rosie was playing and watched the end of her game. They lost, but they were also short 2 players.

From there Rob, Chris and I drove over to join Caroline at Jack’s game. We only stayed there for a few minutes and then Rob, Chris, and I went back to the house for a bite to eat. Christopher came home and was ready to go to his hockey practice so Rob and Chris took him. I stayed and waited for Caroline. When she got home I went with her to go to here gym to work out. It was nice. I haven’t been to a gym for a long time. We worked out for about an hour and a half and then went back to the house.

I went to the RV and Rob and Christopher were in it trying to catch the ladybugs and were throwing them out the door. We finally got out the vacuum cleaner and started sucking them up. Hopefully after a time or tow of vacuuming they will all be gone. We received an email from our friend Don and he told us what they are, that there are no natural predators for them and that they get into your stuff and lay eggs and then it is really hard to get rid of them. Hopefully we are getting rid of them before they have a chance to do any of that.

We went in and all sat down to a big lunch. Francis (age 16) and her girlfriend were there as well as Chris’s friend, Ngoima, whom he has known for 50 years visiting from Kenya, and the rest of the kids. We had a nice long lunch and visited.

Afterward I took a shower and came out to the RV to put on my makeup and catch up on the journal. A few minutes later Rob arrived and took a nap.

It is raining again and we are hearing thunder off in the distance. It is very warm and humid. Currently, at 3:57pm it is 70°. When I stepped out this morning I thought, “Alabama” it feels like when I was in Alabama. Apparently we are officially in the south.

Tomorrow we will all go to Christopher’s Hockey game which is in Virginia. After the game Rob, YumYum and I will just continue on down the road to Turner and Darla’s home. We are having a nice visit here with Chris (Rob’s Mother’s younger brother), His wife Caroline and their 4 children.

At 8pm Chris, Caroline, Ngoima, Rob & I went to a Jazz concert. The son of one of their neighbors is a bass player. It was very free style jazz. Afterward we went to the Belvedere Hotel and had dinner. From there we learned that Christopher and Jack were still out at a place downtown so we went and picked them up.

We went back to the house and since it was 11:30 pm we went straight to bed.