Bye, and what a welcome back to winter!

Fine howdy do, huh? We were able to meet Nathan and Allysa in Atlanta for dinner. Had a wonderful talk about their possible plans. Sounds like they have an opportunity to enter an exciting and more relaxing phase of their lives. Hope it all works out for them. Unfortunately we had to duck out on meeting them for lunch the next day. Weather forecast forced us to leave a few hours earlier than we wanted. A bad accident that closed the interstate at the TN/GA border delayed us just enough so we ran into bad weather in Paducah for about an hour. Could have been much worse as a blizzard hit KY,TN,IN and dumped up to a foot of snow that day. Once we entered IL, everything calmed down and an hour in it cleared competely up. Other than being cold again (20), it was a smooth trip from there. Our thanks to Mom and Dad for having us for a week. It was a great vacation!