Saturday Afternoon: David spent the majority of Friday doing odd jobs over at Ruthanne and Terry's. He had planned to do a whole lot of power washing--and he did accomplish their entire porch area and sidewalk in front of that--but he had also wanted to do other power washing, except the washer kept shutting off on him. David explained the reason why about this, something about a circuit being interrupted by too much water (or something like that). Anyway, we parked the power washer and hoped it would dry out by this morning so that David could finish up power washing a few areas on the other side of my house. BUT the power washer was still malfunctioning; so David put it away in my nice clean shed, and gave up the idea of any more power washing during this trip. He did manage to trim a very annoying pine tree on the rear side of my house that had limbs hanging all over my house. He got up on a ladder and snipped off every single limb! You can't believe how different it looks back there now!
It was a beautiful weather day Saturday, and after having a mini-conference about what we should do with the remainder of our day (our very LAST day), we agreed that driving out to Grand Haven and taking a nice relaxing walk would be just what was needed. We'd had a nice big breakfast of scrambled eggs, bacon, and Pillsbury Cinnamon Rolls (yum) early in the morning; so we figured we'd lunch out near the water somewhere--perhaps at Snug Harbor!
It WAS perfectly beautiful--what a relaxing place to spend a few hours. We walked probably four miles, all along the boardwalk, out to the end of the pier and back to where we'd parked. It was sunny and in the upper 60's--so nice. There were not many boats--but the ones we saw were super nice.
Before we walked the pier, though, we stopped in at MACkite Toy Store. Yikes. I'm going to have to avoid that place in the future. They have so many nice games and toys ... and puppets. I nearly bought another darling puppet, but finally talked myself out of it. I DID, however, by something called a trampoline ping pong table. It's very nice, and I hope to get a lot of use out of it. I also got two more table games to play with the kids. Like I said, I'm going to really have to avoid this toy store!
David and I got super hungry walking around; so after we had walked the pier, we stopped in at Snug Harbor, only to find their prices were very unreasonable for what we would actually eat; so we quietly slipped away from our table (before making any orders or promises to our waitress) and drove down to Culver's to eat. We had a delicious meal, and then David drove us back home. We played some games with Ruthanne and Terry over at their place before coming back here.
We leave for the airport tomorrow morning at about 4:00 in the morning ... so we went to bed early and did just fine getting to and from the airport. But now ... David is gone back home and has landed right in the bull's eye of one of the most massive hurricane's Florida has been hit with in 100 years. We are all a little tense for David and all the people in the path of this storm. Praying that the storm will lessen in its power and ability to damage property and take lives. Please Lord.
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