Day 32 Fisher, IL

48 Miles
Total miles 5,907

Happy Birthday to Dad, G’dad! Today Glenn turns 69. The kids came down to our basement room around 8:30am to serve Glenn breakfast in bed. They sang happy birthday and gave him precious memories. He ate his “pirates eyes” for breakfast.

I forgot about my weekly Friday morning Zoom call to Virginia, Dorothy and Beverly (no-show this time). After a short 30 min. Chat, everyone was out for a walk around the pond. I met up with Ellen and Amanda and we strolled around the pond.

I learned a new game called “King’s Quarter”, a twist on solitaire. I played with Ellen, Glenn, Emily and Lucy. It was fun.

We then watched the opening ceremonies of the Paris 2024 Olympics. As we watched the ceremony and each nation riding in the floats on the River Seine, the kids were trying to match the flags to the countries they seeing on the TV. Little Elizabeth enjoyed holding up these flags and wanting me to take a photo of her holding the flag.We had popcorn. Then Glenn and I took a good 2 hour nap with Amanda.

For the evening, we took 3 kids with us to the summer production of “Finding Nemo” in the near-by Gibson City. Both Lucy and Elizabeth have been having play practice all summer for this weekend. One of the reasons, we focused on ending our month long trip in visiting the retirees, watching this performance. The girls did great! They sang and did a great job.

Glenn and I brought the Double A’s home (Amanda’s and Annie) and we got them ready for bed. We leave early in the morning for our breakfast date with Scott and Carol Boerckel in Bloomington, IL.Read more