Sept 1st. It has been a week since I last did a blog and it has been a pretty great week. You know of course that I am on vacation, (although it seems that some folks don’t seem to care because I keep getting calls from home). 

We started off by making a trip to Sault St. Marie, MI. We made the trip a two day drive because we don’t like to stress ourselves. There was enough road construction to do that for us. But, we got to our hotel and the reunion right on time. As I had told you, the group was gong to be really small this year, only ten of us when in the past we have four times as many. It was a great visit though and being a smaller group gave us more time to talk and Ms. Kate says she really enjoyed being able to get to know the wives better with one on one conversations. Cathy Skelding our host for this reunion did a great job of lining up things to do and things to see. Kate and I didn’t go to Mackinac Island with them because we had been there, done that, and it would have been a lot of walking that we just can’t do anymore. I’m glad we opted out thought because it rained buckets on them and they got soaked and cold and the sea was very rough. But they seemed to enjoy it. I guess that’s because they are all in their “lower 70’s” not like me and her in our “upper 70’s’”. LOL The next day we went to see a lighthouse and the shipwreck museum and then to see a certain waterfall area. Again, Ms. Kate opened out but I went. I did the hike to the falls and it did tire me out. But it was a great day. We found a great place to  eat dinner each day so that was also nice. On Sunday morning we had our “business meeting” and concluded that with a short prayer and worship service with Holy Communion. We have decided that our next reunion will be in October of next year, in Pennsylvania at the home of one of the members. They described their home to us and it sounds fabulous. 

Monday we headed out to Millersburg, Ohio and will be here until tomorrow morning at which time we will head back home to Indiana. We have been through this area before and in fact, we are staying at the same hotel we stayed in the last time we came through here. What we enjoy most is driving around the area seeing the Amish in the homes and in their buggies etc. We went out yesterday and drove around and found a great cheese place and a nice place for dinner. Today it is raining and looks like it will until after noon. So, I guess we will hang around the hotel, have our “free breakfast” of biscuits and gravy and waffles. Maybe this afternoon we will have better weather. The country road are narrow and slick when it is raining. Yesterday as we were coming back to the hotel it come a really heavy rain and was hard to even see through. I don’t want to get into that again. 

So tomorrow it is back to reality as we go home. Tomorrow evening I have to finish up the bulletin for Sunday and Friday will go up and run them. 

I pray you will have a blessed day. Peace.