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| Jean with Tom and Family |
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| Dinner at Jean's Home |
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| Tom, Mary, and Nick |
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| Playing Apples to Apples with Marisa in Darien, CT, on IPAD |
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| Sisters Petkovsek |
I am up too early, at 5: 20 here in Lee's Summit, unable to get back to sleep. We will head home to a snow storm around 6:30 or 7:00 this morning, stopping in Dayton for the night, about a ten hour drive. Chautauqua could get up to 15 inches of snow in the next two days. We hope that by the time we get to that area on Tuesday afternoon, things will have settled down and the roads will be passable if not completely cleared. Enshallah!
We had a very busy day yesterday, our last in Lee's Summit. Evie and I went to Eddie Bauer early, to return some things, pick up a few more while we still have interesting stores around. Then, around noon, we went to Jean's house, Evie's sister who lives in Independence, about twenty minutes away. She has a lovely house on a lake whose name I will not attempt to spell...Tapawingo I think. The house has a great view of this small but fun lake and Jean often kayaks or boats on it when the weather is good. We had a great dinner, an eye of round roast, mashed potatoes for Nick, corn on the cob, salad, and homemade cookies for dessert, a feast for a Sunday afternoon. We relaxed after the meal, uncomfortably full from having eaten so much and at Marlena's request, we played Apples to Apples, along with Marisa Albarran, in Darien, who was following the game on her IPAD along with Marlena. When it was their turn, Marlena would take the IPAD into the bedroom, taking her cards with her, and talk with Marisa about which card was the best answer. It was a riot and we played for an least thirty to forty five minutes with her. Jean is a great host, like her sisters, Claire and Laura, so it's an easy visit and fun.
We left Jean's about 2:30 because Marlena had softball practice, which Evie and Mary went to. Tom, Nick and I went home for about an hour, then off to his basketball game in north Kansas City, where we met Mary, Evie and Marlena and watched Nick's game. They won, fairly easily, and Nick had his best game, playing well defensively, snarling at least five offensive rebounds, and leading the charge to take the lead late in the first half by dropping in five quick points. It was great to see him playing well and having fun. After the game, the girls headed home and the three guys took off for Nick's soccer game at 7:30, back in Overland Park, Kansas, about 45 minutes away. It was a cold, windy night, clear skies though, and they played under the lights on one of the 12 turf and lit fields, all full with soccer games, the lat starting at 9:00. It's an amazing complex, as good as any of I have ever seen and all were busy. His team came back with a late goal to tie the game 2-2, almost the reverse of yesterday and Nick again played well, confident, skillfully, with great ball sense. His coach mentioned he was one of the two who played the best on the team. We rolled home around 9:30, after a stop for dinner at Mc Donalds, and watched one more episode of 24 before we went off to bed, exhausted, after a long day watching sports. As the grand children get older, their games are more and more fun, as they are more and more skilled and fun to watch. We will miss not seeing them play.
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