Goodbye to Terri and Molly

This morning I got up early to say goodbye to Terri and Molly and wish them safe flights to Texas. Ed and Sam drove them to the Atlanta airport, a trip that Ed makes regularly. In fact, this is the second day in a row that he drove someone to ATL (Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport), a trip of nearly 60 miles each way, which Google Maps suggests takes one hour and four minutes. That's under the best of traffic conditions, of course. Ed got a message later that they had landed safely, and Terri called tonight to talk with us. Kelley picked them up at the Dallas airport. Blake had flown in last night, so they were reunited.

Ed and Jesse took me to the Verizon store at what Ed calls the magic exit, exit 14 off Georgia 400 (US 19), where practically every retail outlet can be found. The folks at the Verizon store reset Julie's old iPhone 4S and transferred my phone number and contacts to it. Of course they also tried to sell me a case and some screen protectors and a car charger.... I'll be looking to buy those things, but probably from Amazon.

We also stopped at several stores looking for a plastic toy knife for Jesse. No luck anywhere, so he ended up with a foam dart gun, which unfortunately has to be cocked by someone stronger than a three year old.

Julie and Charlie and I went for a walk to the duck/fish pond. That's an hour's walk, about three miles, and gives us plenty of time to chat along the way.

Sam and Jesse and Ed and I played Zingo! tonight. It's a toddler Bingo game. All the kids love to play games, which is easy to understand since Ed is a big game player. Afterwards Ed fixed ice cream with whipped cream and chopped peanut butter cups for everyone but Julie, who is on a special cleansing diet right now. Cate has decided to try a Vegan diet for a week, starting tomorrow. She sees that her mom is working on choosing a healthy diet and wants to do the same.

I talked with Ken this morning and again this evening. He and Romaine are doing fine. They went to a farm produce store today and picked up some fresh Michigan blueberries, blackberries, and raspberries. The kids and Julie and I are big raspberry fans, but Ed doesn't care for anything with small seeds that might stick in his teeth.

Ken says, "These are from our trip to De Lange's Redberry Farm, where Romaine bought red berries from a redhead."


Terri called this evening to talk with Ed again about working with someone at Park Place to find a good used car for Molly. She doesn't even have a driver license yet, but she has driven on a permit in another state. Texas requires only a six-hour online course and a paper and pencil test for her to get a license.