Back from SC

The Friday night meet and greet was interesting.  It was nice to talk to some of the "girls" that I had been in contact recently.

On Saturday Missy, Harvey and I went into Charleston and did a bus tour.  After lunch it was just too hot and we were just too tired to do more.  Danielle had elected not to join us on our trip into Charleston, maybe she had the right idea.

On Satuday night we were late to my 45th High School reunion because Harvey decided to wake up and cry just as we were leaving.  We didn't want to leave Danielle with a crying baby so we stayed another 45 minutes.  Once we got to the reunion it went very well.  I met up with quite a few of my classmates that actually remembered me.  It was nice to talk and catch up on what's happened in their lives.

One downer was finding out how many of our classmates have passed away.  This included one boy that I remember very well.  He was one of the guys that actually talked to me and I'll admit I had a little crush on him.  It never came to anything, but I had always rememebered him.

On Sunday we drove back to JAX.  The trip is less than 5 hours, but that's a long time in a car seat for a 7 month old baby, so we stopped once to give Harvey a break.

Got home around 1pm and immediately had to go to the store, as I didn't have anything for dinner or for breakfast tomorrow.

After getting back from the store, I had a little panic attack.  I couldn't find my itouch.  I emptied my suitcase, my camera bag and my purse.  Couldn't find it.  Finely I looked in the makeup bag.  Not sure how it got in there, but there it was.  I was relieved to find it.

Now for a quite couple days.

High School reunion?

Tomorrow I'm going to South Carolina for my 45th High School reunion.  This should be interesting.  Being a Navy kid, we moved a lot.  We moved to Charleston in the middle of my junior year.  So I only went to Berkeley High for about 18 months. 

I wasn't real outgoing so I didn't make many friends and the few I did lived in military housing near us.  In the past, I've been out of the country when the reunion's were scheduled.  This time I've just moved from Germany to Florida so I thought I'd go.  I can't remember many of my classmates.

Luckily, my daughter Melissa is going to drive me up there.  We are going to use this as a mother/daughter/granddaughter mini vacation. We have to take baby Harvey with us, so Melissa's 16 year old daughter is going with us to take care of Harvey while we are at the reunion.

I'm very nervous. Wish me luck.

I'm back in Florida.  So I guess it's official, I'm a Floridian.  Tom won't be here until the end of September.  That seems a long time away. 

My car, MX5 is here in Florida and I can pick it up tomorrow morning. 

Tommy's going to take me to get the car in the morning.  He wants to drive the MX5 every since he saw the car on Top Gear.

Yesterday Missy, Danielle, Harvey, Jack and I went to a local flea market.  Danielle was hoping to see an old school friend.  It was hot and humid and Danielle's friend was late and we couldn't stay any longer. 

Of course, since I'm back in Florida, I'll be taking photos of the grand kids. 

As for knitting, I'm working on a yellow blanket for a friend's grandson.  Photos to follow.

Knits in an unexpected place

Yesterday, 4 July, Tom and I decided to have one more day trip before I leave Germany for good. We went to Trier Germany about 1 hour away from our house in Kindsbach. We did the tourist type stuff, road the city site seeing bus around twice. It was great fun.



As we were going across the park to the museum, I noticed something I had never seen in person.  Two of the statues had knitted items on them. 

Even Tom was surprised, he asked how they got the wrist warmers on the statue as he couldn't see any way to move the arm.  I explained that they had the warmers ready but didn't sew them together until they were put on the statue. 

He seemed to be impressed.

Spending to much time on line?

I'm hooked on Pinterest.  They have the neatest of stuff.  If you haven't been there yet, check it out: http://pinterest.com/all/
It seems that if I'm not knitting I'm on Pinterest checking out their knitting pins. Since our house hold goods are on the way Stateside. There's not much I can do except knit and surf the web.

I've discovered that  living without much furniture can be done.  I still have some of my knitting stuff.  I'll put, most of that in my checked luggage. The baby blanket I'm knitting I'll carry on the plane. So far when I traveled between US and Germany I haven't had any trouble with my knitting needles.  I travel with wooden circular needles.  Hope that my luck holds out as I'll be changing planes in Pennsylvania instead of DC as I usually do.

The schedule is for me to leave Germany around 2pm (Germany time) on Friday.  I should be in FL around 8pm (East coast time).  I'm excited about leaving Germany and a little sad as Tom will have to stay another 2 1/2 months.  The time should go by fast for me as I'll be getting the house hold furniture delivered and trying to find a place for all the stuff we have.
As for the knitting/craft room, I've got that figured out (I think).  The room identified as Office space by the sellers, I'm going to use for "Knitone Studio". That's most likely the first room I'll work on.