Hey friends. I'm sitting in the Philly airport with 3+ hours until my flight will hopefully take off so I figured it was life update time! I drove home Wednesday. Stopped in Tally to visit Roger on the way. Such a nice time, just wish I could have stayed longer. We went to this place called Mr. Roboto. Delicious food and really cool atmosphere. I texted Chris that he would love it and he was like yeah, been there, it's one of my favorite places. Ha! So that was cool. Got home without too much incident from Tux. I gave him some meds before we left. Poor thing walked into a wall, but he didn't make a horrifying mess of my car, so I'll call it a fair trade off.
I spent all day Thursday scanning pictures that we got from Nagymama's house. Literally all day. I took a break for about an hour to go buy groceries, but other than that I sat at the kitchen table and scanned. I used this AMAZING thing called a VuPoint Magic Wand. It made it SO much easier and so much more pleasant. And the scans were pretty good too. While I scanned photos I finally gave in and watched Duck Dynasty. I had heard a little about it and Kevin sent me the link to watch the first season so I finally gave in and watched it. LOVED IT. Seriously, they are adorable and hilarious and it was a nice distraction from scanning aaaaaall day. Got through 13 episodes. Haha.
Friday we flew out of Tampa up to Philly. George and Diane picked us up and we drove up to Passaic. Spent Friday and Saturday cleaning and getting stuff in order. Sunday was the memorial service for Nagymama. It was really nice and we packed out the church. It was amazing to see that many people there to celebrate her life. After the church we had a get together at her house. There were easily well over 100 people there. We ate, drank and reminisced on Nagymama and our memories of that house. It was so great to see all of the family in one place. Monday Mom and I got up at 4:30 in the morning to get Kathy to the airport. She had a hell of a time and spent 14 hours traveling trying to get back to Jax. Poor sister. But I'm SO glad she came up.
Let's see. Monday afternoon we went to see my great uncle who is in the hospital. OY. He was on the 5th floor of St. Mary's, which is exactly where Nagymama was. Definitely wasn't happy to have to go back to that place, but it was nice to see him and see that he was doing better. Hopefully he gets well enough and strong enough to get out of that place soon. After that we packed up and headed south to George's house. Spent the night talking and bonding. It was nice. I'm SO exhausted today though.
We came to the airport reeeeally early so George could have time to work on his house, which is looking great. We had a nice lunch and now we have about 3 hours til we take off. I'm going to hang out in Florida until after Thanksgiving because there's really no sense in going back to Alabama for like 5 days just to drive back down next week.
I have lots and lots of other updates for you guys but they aren't developed enough to share just yet. Some are great, some are stupid, and some are really exciting. So I promise once they're share-ready, you'll get fully updated. For now, thanks to everyone for being swell. Life has been a little rough and it really means a lot to have the friends and family that I do. So really, thank you all.
