Good morning to you all! Well, our trip make be in the trash can if Ike can't seem to veer more south and head to Mexico. What's wrong with the guy, he prejudiced, doesn't like Mexican food, Dos Equis beer, what?
Anyway, we are closely watching what the storm does. The big problem is to save money I prepaid for a non-refundable hotel and it cost us over $500. I talked Jack into staying at Embassy Suites because it is really nice so I prepaid to save about $100. This may bite me in the behind! lol I emailed Embassy Suites to see if we can at least get a certificate or something if the hurricane keeps us from being allowed into the city since it wouldn't be our choice that we don't come. I prepaid the car too so we will go somewhere else. We thought about going up to the see the kids, but we really wanted to get away just us and on top of that Notre Dame plays in South Bend this weekend and you can't get a hotel within 50 miles and those you can have inflated prices by at least 100%. Who knows, we will find something to do.
Gail: We were stationed in Va Beach twice, once when we were first married and once after the kids were born and school age. We originally lived in an apartment, but finally got into base housing out by Oceana off of General Booth blvd. They trekked the kids clear out to North Landing to school and almost the whole school was Navy kids. I married into the military life and boy was it a change, but I adapted then it was weird once we were out not to have that "communal" thing going anymore. It is truly an awful life for a kid I don't care what anyone says. If you ask my two they would tell you how much they hated it and not just the poverty part.
Susan: Thank God things like that happen when you are young and seem to withstand it better. By the time you are old you have health issues, maybe chronic, etc and it is much harder to live that way. I think about the elderly in this country living practically hand to mouth. I am not a great supporter of the Welfare program in this country and I think it allows layabouts, but if there were a group of people I think they should help it is the elderly and many of them are too proud to take help. It is sad that this country is no longer one in which the churches and families support those that cannot support themselves. We wouldn't need programs or have hungry people if families, close and extended would bind together and take care of each other. No one wants their parents living with them anymore. They shuffle them off to nursing homes or facilities. I think it is sad that grandkids don't get that influence. I only lived with my in-laws for about 8 months when Jay was a baby, but he got the daily attention from his grandparents which I thought was so nice. I adore my grandchildren and would love to be in their lives to sit and read to them, etc. This old world has just gotten too darn big.
Jean: I TOLD you they were in a purse!
I find most of my "lost" things in handbags. I lost my old sunglasses last Saturday (I laid them down on a store counter when I was running errands and don't know which one) and was using them because I had lost my brand new pair of sunglasses. Well, I went hunting and found them in one of my new handbags. I also found a watch, a pair of earrings and another pair of sunglasses while searching for the new ones!
Maybe that's the way to save money, put it in handbags! Only trouble is don't forget to go through them thoroughly before giving them away! lol I was just talking to Jack about your GPS and he couldn't figure out why they weren't replacing it. He said it sounded like a major chip in the computer system was bad and needed replacing. Glad they are putting in a new one for you! Funny story about directions and trips. First off, the managers and coaches for baseball makes millions so you would think they would have gps systems in their automobiles. Last week, the Cubs were playing Cinncinnati. Lou Pinella the manager, and Sinatro the first base coach, who are close friends, decided to DRIVE instead of going on the charter flight. Lou has been to the baseball park several times and Matt Sinatro had gotten directions off of mapquest on the internet. Well, Lou was sleeping and Matt got lost and was two hours past Cinncinnati and heading to Cleveland before Lou woke up and got them back on the right track! lol They missed batting practice and everything.
Everyone have a super day. I am going to be having my eye on this darn storm all day to see where it tracks.
Faye