Family Get Together in North Carolina

Scott and I went to church this morning in Elizabeth City, North Carolina. It was a small congregation but a very nice service. It's nice to know church is somewhat the same wherever you are.  It was weird having to drive 20-25 minutes to get to church when we can walk it in 10, or drive it in 1 minute. It reminded me of the time we lived in Sumter, South Carolina in 1988-89 and had to drive 20 minutes to church, an hour to pick up my Young Women for mutual night and and hour to take them all home again, and 45 minutes to get to Florence for Stake Conference. We went back to the RV and changed clothes to head over to South Mills.

I got a chuckle out of this sign at Lisa's house every time I go to the front door:

At Lisa's house I spend an hour sewing on Cierra and Hunter's patches on the junior ranger vests. I think they look pretty cute! They did a great job on all their badges and they look pretty sharp!

Cierra Front

Cierra Back Right

Cierra Back Left

Hunter Front (His wings from Tuskegee Airmen is already missing)

Hunter Back

While I was sewing on the patches, Dave Peelman, Josh's father, came in on the train from Arizona where he'll be spending a week.  It's getting to be quite a full house here.  I bet they didn't realize how many people would be here all at once. 

Lisa made a nice ham dinner with mashed potatoes and asparagus for dinner.  It was great not to have to think about dinner and it tasted scrumptious. Scott helped her peel potatoes...his favorite past time.  Their little neighbor girl, Katie, kept them entertained...she is a non-stop chatter box.  Hunter talked about her the entire trip across the country.

Katie is keeping Scott company

Washing Up Dishes

K.P. Duty

Miss Katie

Ryan and Josh N. finally arrived at about 5:30 p.m.  They were supposed to come over from Maryland yesterday but they couldn't make it then so they were coming over today.  Ryan bought Hunter a gaming computer for his birthday and it wasn't ready yet. They said the traffic was horrible and the 4 hour drive turned into 6 hours. I don't know if it was because of the racial riots in Charlottesville, Virginia today or what.

After they ate I asked Ryan to fix a couple of computer glitches on my computer - the first one on the blog he couldn't do...or didn't want to more like it...and the other he sort-of fixed.  He uninstalled the icons and reinstalled them to fix it, but when I turned on the computer after we got back to the RV it was back to the same problem - my desktop icons all over the place instead of staying put.  Oh well.

Ryan doing his computer thing.

Everyone was gathered around the sofa after dinner so a stole a quick photo.

Relaxing after dinner. L-R  Scott, Cierra, Chanel, Katie and Dave

Miss Katie took a cute photo of Ryan and me.  That's pretty good since Ryan HATES having his photo taken...and he even smiled!

Isn't he the cutest guy??!!

Ryan and Josh N. stayed a total of an hour and off they went back to Maryland - another 4 hours drive!  He's not the social one.  Always short and sweet visits...better a few than none.

The gang:  L-R Hunter on his new computer, Josh N, Lisa and Cierra

We are leaving in a few minutes also.  We have to pack up and get on the road in the morning, so we'll be saying our goodbyes in a few minutes. It will be sad not to see the Peelman gang but we had fun with the kids.

On the way back to the RV, we saw two different crop dusters doing their thing so we stopped along the side of the road to watch.  Both were yellow planes.  I wonder if that's a requirement to crop dust in North Carolina...

Crop Dusting

Tomorrow we're starting on our way back toward home.  We'll be going to see Guilford Courthouse National Military Park, Kings Mountain National Military Park, Cowpens National Battlefield and the Carl Sandburg Home National Historical Site on our way to Pigeon Forge and Gatlinburg, Tennessee where we will be from Tuesday through Saturday enjoying the sites, the Smokies and researching some of my mom's ancestors who lived in the area from the late 1700s and early 1800s.