Being with Grandma Anderson

I was able to sleep in a little bit, but I was woken up pretty early because we were going to go to breakfast with Doug. We went out to the truckstop again. Jon paid for it with the money he won playing Four-Five-Six last night.

When we got back from breakfast we hung out at Tom’s place for a while watching TV. We were going to meet Grandma Anderson around eleven o’clock. Our plan was to go to lunch with her and hang out.

We went to Grandma’s apartment. It was very nice in a retirement community. It sounds like that have a fair number of activities for everyone. She keeps herself pretty busy. We looked at some old pictures including of my great-grandparents on both side of the family. She also had a picture with her in it that had five-generations of people. I thought that was pretty cool.

Then she gave Jon and I some of my dad’s stuff. She gave me his old wrist-watch that my mom gave to my grandma after my dad died. I also got one of his dogtags from the military. Jon got the other one. I also got an ashtray from the place he use to work.

We drove to The Homesteader, a restaurant that my grandma likes to eat at. We had lunch there and talked about stuff with grandma. Jon paid for lunch with his winnings form Four-Five-Six from last night as well.

After lunch was done we took my grandma back home. Then Jon and I went to get something for the boys. I also got a deck of cards for the trip home.

We went back to Tom’s and got ready to go to the airport. He dropped us off around fifteen minutes before our flight was to start boarding the plane.

We got on and flew to St. Paul. Again it was a three hour layover. We got some dinner there and waited for the plane to come. We played some Texas Hold’Em. Jon got into a conversation with a guy who works for Microsoft. They were talking about a phone they both have in common.

I talked to a worker about getting an exit door seat. They have a lot more leg room. She put me on a waiting list. About twenty minutes before boarding my name was called. I got one of the seats. I was able to board with the people from first-class.

As it turned out a ten-six-seven was sitting behind me. I could not get enough of the eyecandy. It was very pleasing. I spent the flight reading some of my reading materials I brought and listening to music with the pocket PC. The batteries got low on that so I had to stop. But we were pretty close to Seattle.

Once we landed I was able to check out the ten-six-seven a while longer. It was nice. We only had carry on stuff so we did not have to wait for the luggage. We went straight to the place to get a bus to take us back to where we parked my truck. Once we checked out I saw the total time in the parking lot was forty-eight hours and one minute. So it was almost exactly two day to go to Minot and back and do everything we did. It seemed like I was there longer than I was.

I dropped Jon off at home and went home myself. I went to bed after checking my e-mail and relaxing a little bit by playing with Amber. It has been a long couple days.