Goodbye to family

Friday we wakened before 6 for some reason.  Neither of us was anxious, and we had slept fairly well.  We packed our last minute things into the trailer, took our water payment to the office, took the trailer to town to have the tires inflated and left town.  We were into Georgia by 10:30.  We stopped at a CVS looking for a bargain on Pepsi but found none.  We stopped for lunch in Gainesville and were at Stacy’s around 2.  We talked with her and Tom until the kids came home from school.  Olivia was feeling sick and went to bed.  Peter was home for a short visit and left early for the football game.  T,E, and I went to the Tin Drum where Olivia works.  We met her current boyfriend, Brad.  He seemed clean cut.  We drove about 45 minutes to the school where Peter’s school was playing.  It was cold, but we were dressed for the event and remained comfortable.  Peter did well in performing with the band at halftime.  We left for home during the 4th quarter, and Tom dropped us at the La Quinta where we spent the night.

We slept a bit later during the morning and went to Stacy’s after breakfast.  We visited with her and Peter for a while before going to lunch at Red Lobster.  Stacy wanted to buy Evelyn some lobster for the birthday she had in September.  We went back to her house and became aware that they had expected us to leave during the day.  When I became aware of this, I cancelled our reservation for tonight and went online to make one in Meridian, MS.  I was tired and little interested in driving nearly 300 miles starting at 3 PM.  We did none the less.  Just before we left, Tom was able to spend some time helping me learn some things about the tablet I have had so much trouble with.  In fact I thought it didn’t work.  Tom Was able to get it to work.  We left and I fought sleep almost all the way.  We were blessed to enter the central time zone enabling us to arrive shortly after dark.  We ate some leftover pizza we had brought from home and watched some of the World Series since the college football games were blowouts.