We celebrated our grandson Drew's first birthday this past weekend. I have way too many pictures to pick from, so I will show as much restraint as possible. Here are some of the stories and some pictures....
Grandma and Nora traveled up as planned. They got stuck in a horrible traffic backup in Tennessee, not far from the state line to Kentucky. They got off at the next exit the traffic crept up to to try to find a restroom. Several men from the DOT pulled off to see if they were OK. Becka asked the one man why the traffic was so backed up, thinking he'd say it was an accident since the southbound traffic was flowing fine. He told her that the some of the mountain had caved! Yikes! We were thankful that it had happened before they got that far. He told them that if they continued on the road at that exit, they would come to a gravel road that would eventually take them to Jellico on the other side of the place where the mountain had caved. It was after dark, but they could see well enough to know that the left side of the gravel road was a sheer drop-off! I was very relieved when they called me from Jellico!
On Friday they managed to stay ahead of the snow storm that hammered Ohio. Below is a picture of them at lunch time in Perrysburg, OH, with some of the snow from earlier last week.
What Becka and Nora didn't know was that a few weeks ago I cashed in some frequent-flyer miles to fly up for the weekend too! I was supposed to arrive in Detroit at about midnight, but because of the snow, our pilot was delayed in arriving from his flight from Toronto. So my three hour layover in Chicago O'Hare became a six hour layover! (reminiscent of the theme song of Gilligan's Island ... a three hour tour!) When I arrived in Detroit at about 3:00 a.m. my son-in-law (who was in on my surprise) was there waiting for me. It was so fun when I slipped into our bedroom, kissed Becka to wake her up, and enjoyed her complete surprise!
We all really enjoyed being together on Saturday as preparations were going on for the "friends party" at 5:30 that afternoon. Meg and Jim asked me if I would give Drew his first trim to try to reduce his "baby mullet." Here are a couple of pictures of the process....
"Hey, Grandpa, what are you doing to me?!"
A lot of preparations went on in the kitchen for the food for the party the theme of which was puppies. Nora set up a cookie factory on the kitchen table....
Here's a tray full of the finished product....
Megan made a cute cake she'd seen online....
Drew also got his own cupcake - his first taste of cake! He enjoyed the cake, but he didn't want to touch it.
Drew really enjoyed the presents....
Grandma loved being with her boy....
It's hard to remember his being such a tiny preemie a year ago - he's such a fine, upstanding boy now!
My flights home Sunday were less eventful, and the delay in Chicago O'Hare was shorter than Friday night's delay. What's kind of sad is that 10 hours of my weekend were spent at O'Hare! Yuck! Becka and Nora are driving back to South Carolina today (Tuesday). It will be great to have them home again!
My recent trip up north, where they are experiencing one of their hardest winters in a long time, reminded me of the horrors of global warming and of an e-mail I received recently about the Northern Lights and a frozen Antarctic wave.
Yellowknife, named after copper, is the the capital of Canada's Northwest Territories. Here are a few pictures of the Northern Lights over Yellowknife and living in teepees at 37 degrees below 0....
It's beyond cool!
Below are some pictures of Antarctica. In the e-mail I received, what you see below was attributed to a quick freeze of a wave in super frigid air, but according to snopes it's actually the result of melting and refreezing. Whatever the situation, that's one cold place!
quotation...
"It's nice to have the things money can buy, as long as you don't lose the things money can't buy." - Kevin Johns
=^..^= =^..^=
Rob
If it's zero degrees outside today and it's supposed to be twice as cold tomorrow, how cold is it going to be?
Comments
- March 11, 2008, Deb writes: What a great surprise you pulled off, Rob!! Neat pictures of you and your grandson and his first haircut; how special! Unbelievable frozen waves!
- March 11, 2008, Sherry writes: I'm so glad you all arrived safely! :) Those pictures are precious. I was looking at Nora's Facebook pictures of the weekend, and I was just lamenting how sad that you couldn't be there. Excellent job pulling off a great surprise. And I'm so glad you got to enjoy the special weekend, too. :)
- March 13, 2008, Nicky and Angela writes: The grandson looks just like his grandpa! So happy you got to spend time together. Looks like you had a blast!
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