Sunday Dining and Monday Shopping

Chris played his guitar and sang in church on Sunday. He sang his own arrangement of " There's Something About That Name"; it was SO beautiful. His arrangement was really sensitive, and his voice was filled with emotion as he sang. What a treat. It was fun to see several of the old ladies in the church hurry up to him after the service. He smiled so sweetly at them as they expressed their thanks and praise.

After church, we all went to Suzanne's Fine Dining Restaurant in the Stearns Heritage complex. She is a friend of MA, Dee, and Sandra. It was a lovely meal -- I had prime rib, scalloped potatoes, Kentucky green beans and sauerkraut, along with a sample of meatloaf. It was fun to have everyone there, and there was plenty of happy talk. From left to right: Chris, Sandra, Tom Hall, Dee, Tom Chitwood, Nita (hidden from view) and Mary Ann

Almost everyone came back to the house afterwards. Dee displayed her vegetable crop -- and, of course, we made funny pictures with the vegetables. I guess I'll upload all these pictures to show you just how silly we were.

By the way, these beans, shown next to a penny for comparison, illustrate her total crop! She had dozens and dozens of tomatoes and peppers of various types, and egg plants.

Today, being a shopping day, saw us heading back up to Somerset to Belk's and the Mall! Nita exchanged a pair of slacks and bought out half the children's department for kids at home and in England, while I "topped up" my purchases with just a couple of items from that girls' department.


We had lunch and I achieved one of my goals for this trip -- to be sure to have an artichoke sandwich from Penn Station. This may be the best sandwich I have ever eaten . . . yum!

Nita needed to stop a drug store to get some contact lens solution, and next to that drugstore was -- you guessed it -- another place to buy things! There were numerous items on a rack outside with a sign saying that ALL their sale items were $3.00 each. Well, you wouldn't really ask us to pass that up, so we came home with even more purchases.

Dee and Amy came over for supper and lingered over dessert and a chance to look at Nita's Egypt pictures while Mary Ann went to her computer class and I fooled around with the Tom-Tom in preparation for our trip back home.





It's time for bed now, because tomorrow begins yet another eventful day in South Central Kentucky. I think we'll try to get to the Natural Arch which should allow Nita to take some great pictures. We'll upload some of her photos tomorrow.