January 8, 2006

Just finished putting away all the Christmas decorations. Takes 3 days to set up and 3 to put away, nice to see but it sure is a lot of work!
We had a good trip after Christmas to Chicago. Visited with Suzankaye, Jim and our three grandkids. Ari is wearing glasses now. Here she is with their new dog Zookie. We all went to the Field Museum and saw the "Last days of Pompeii." The exhibit was very interesting but too crowded. Pompeii was buried under 60 feet of scalding hot mud from the volcano, and the showed figures that they had exhumed. Some skeletons and a wax recreation of some people in their final minutes. The movie was very interesting also. Of course Austin went to see the dinosaurs, the most famous on exhibit is "Sue", the T-Rex. The regular dino exhibit was closed for renovations.
We also got to see some of my cousins, Geneva and Beverly. My aunt Lavergne and boy friend also made it. We all met at Country buffet and spent about 3 hours visiting.
Lois and I are back volunteering at Lawson school. When I went to my kindergarten class, one of the boys told me he really missed me a lot and wondered if I missed him. Of course I told him I missed him a lot too.
It's nice to have the house back to normal again. No trips planned yet, thought we might go to Florida, but looks like not now.