Memorial Day Anecdotes

We started out the weekend Saturday with Mike replacing the tub fixtures in preparation for use when we start working in the downstairs bathroom. Everything went great. In fact, the funny thing is that Mike fixed a leak that we had in the tub faucet for the past three years. All he did was to realign the hot/cold ball joint. We laughed so hard about that because all this time Mike didn't fix the leak because he thought it was complicated. Then it turns out to be such a simple thing. Oh well! The only complication is that now we have a nasty stain where the water dripped all that time.

Sunday we went to a Sunday School party in the evening. The kids had a lot of fun playing there.

Monday we wanted to go out but those plans were dampened (ha, ha) by the downpours that we had all day long. We spent the day cooped up inside with an occasional jaunt outside for Mike so that he could scoop water out of the window well. I moped up the water in the basement corner where the water poured through the window with the full window well. Not exactly what I had in mind for my Memorial Day plans. I think that we received over 5" of rain. We did have some b-b-q pork chops with Mike's parents.

Hopefully it will not rain next weekend because we are going to go to Mike's work's annual family day event at his work. They are supposed to have blow up jumpers for the kids and a cookout for the family. Also on Friday night we are going to have date night where we plan on going to Forest Park for the Shakespeare in the Park festival. We have been to this event every year except the very first year which we missed Romeo and Juliet. If you live in the area and want to enjoy an enjoyable free evening I would advise this event. You bring your lawn chairs and enjoy a well acted performance. As I said Mike and I have enjoyed it every year. It is something that we can look forward to. It is from Memorial Day to Father's Day usually.

In only two weeks we leave for our vacation to Branson. I can't believe it is here already. This year is flying. The boys are looking forward to the pool and Silver Dollar City. My parents had planned on going with us but now they have to go to Florida to clean out Grandma's estate. Bummer! We were looking forward to having them with us. It will be a fun time. I just need to start preparing myself. Last year I was counting down until Colorado and this year the trip has just snuck up on me. Speaking of that I had better go so that I can exercise and then buy tickets from AAA for the trip.