Merry Christmas to all!! 🎄🎄

Friday 22 December 2023

   Sunny and nice today. A good day for a drive.  We headed out around 10am to meet and have lunch with Dave & Winnie Herb (Ives Run volunteers) at Marzoni's in Selinsgrove. It was a great get together. Dave had a critical eye surgery in October and happy to report all went well. So glad to hear.  I did remember last week's experience and did not order crab cakes.  The food was good and the visit with friends even better. It was close to 4pm until we got back and Rudy was waiting with his legs crossed. Out the door and peed on the first blade of grass he could find.    

Saturday 23 December 2023

    The day went by in a blur.  We had a nice breakfast since we were not eating until 2pm or so. By the

We 5 be together!!

time we ate, showered and packed it was time to head to Lynne and Rick's place.  The traditional Angeli Christmas dinner (chicken and waffles). All 5 Angeli sisters were there, and we had a great day celebrating Christmas. It was well after 6pm when the party started to thin out.  After last of the family members left and clean up was all done, we retired to the basement to finish a game of Mexican train we started last week.  After thoroughly tasting a few bottles of wine we headed to bed.

Sunday 24 December 2023

   We were up early showered (well I was) I started carrying gifts and stuff down to the truck and coffee

Nice Visit!!

up to Diane. She really didn't do too bad, we were out the door by 9:00 and heading over to Shane's for Christmas breakfast with Shane, Morgan and the kids.  Once again it was a great family gathering. Morgan made a breakfast casserole. Yum!  I was just a bit late had to take Rudy home, check the heat in the Moho then head back for breakfast.  Chase was of

Cousin Frankie and
Aunt Dot,
Great Visit!!

course the hit of the day. He wanted to open gifts, period, no matter who's they were. It was quite entertaining as fast as Morgan took a gift from him he would run over and find another. It was almost lunch till we returned to the Moho. I parked Diane got out of the truck and into the car heading back to Lynne's to visit with Aunt Dot & Frankie. After that she did a couple of errands then headed home.  She finally returned around three. Just plain worn out. We had some wine, just left overs for dinner and vegged the night away.

Monday 25 December 2023 MERRY CHRISTMAS

    All our celebrations and gatherings are done!  After a nice breakfast we got serious about planning the next segment of our journey.  The last few days we were all consumed with Christmas and family gatherings but now we need to make some concrete decisions. Although it is Christmas day, and no businesses are open to confirm anything we planned and made a list of phone calls for tomorrow.
   We are leaving Saturday 30 December going to Alaska (PA) to a Loves Truck stop. Next is the Middle

Great Christmas Picture!!
Chase and Kennedy.

Ridge service plaza in Ohio and finally to the Garden Campground in Elkhart. It is not the most exciting schedule but sometimes "A camper has to do what a camper has to do"😉 If you are wondering why we picked that campground.... it is the only campground in Elkhart that is open.  It seems no one in their right mind goes there in January, but we are.
  We should be done in Elkhart by Friday the 5th and heading down to Nappanee on Saturday.  Of course, none of this is finalized until phone calls are made tomorrow. 
   Update coming tomorrow.