More People

This is Sue, Gpa's sister visiting from Missouri. I recognized her from pictures, but I don't know how long its been since we met in person. She and Gpa had a great time.




This is Sue's daughter Rhonda, who lives around here somewhere. I did alot of research and determined that since she is the daughter of my aunt, she is automatically my cousin. Apparently, I have more cousins on Gpa's side of the family that I have never met.

Here is pretty much how the afternoon and evening went.

Christmas in Sun City

Not too much excitement here:

Mom's treasure:



Dad goes to the dark side:

More excitement

Yesterday we went to a retirement complex called "Freedom Village." It is a massive group of 7 story condos with various levels of nursing care. It was an open house with tons of food and live musicians and many many old people with way too much money. Apparently to get into this place costs about $300K to buy the condo and somewhere around 4K per month for service. Mom and I are thinking about buy one just for the winter months.



Then in the evening we went to the Elks for the Friday Fish Fry. The fish wasn't as good as last time but it was good enough that I ate it all.

Here are gandgg all dooded up for the big night out.

More exciting news to come.

The Saga Continues

Today, our luggage decided to stop by for a visit. Clean clothes after two days feels good.

Some of us have been decorating a little.

Too many stockings. Who are these people?


Here is how Gg rolls! We are talking about having it lowered and maybe some rims.

Well, somebody has to be in charge.

Geography Lesson

Today we are having a lesson in geography for our luggage.




On the left is a view of Salt Lake City. We passed through there on our way to Phoenix, which is on the right.

Our luggage got very confused and decided it wanted to stay in SLC. Maybe it wanted it's own little vacation. Maybe it had to do with the snow delay between Seattle and SLC. Hopefully, that will be resolved today. Maybe we could wear different clothes than what we are wearing now.

Anyway, it is very good to be done with traveling and to be here with GandGG.

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"Leaving...On a Jet Plane"

Well, here we go. We didn't have much money so we decided to take an economy flight to go visit GandGG.

We will be spending a couple weeks down there. We have been watching the weather, looks pretty bad. Lows actually down in the 50s. I will take my parka.

I will try to post all the wonderful things we are doing. I couldn't get Blogger Mobile to work, so I guess I will have to do it the hard way.

Mondays are for MRIs

Today we went over to the VA for my MRI of my head "to see if anything was going on in there." I went to the MRI department and a guy led me through miles of twisting hallways and back alleys. Then we were in the basement headed out to the loading dock. Then, the most redneck thing I have ever seen: An MRI stuffed into a truck sitting in the back alley by the loading dock. I checked to see if it had rims on it. It didn't.

By looking at the image I think you can see the problem. If you will notice, there is an area in the center that looks pretty good. This is what they call the "Reptilian" or primitive brain. The surrounding tissue, oddly enough, is blurred and indistinct. I have to wait for the Radiologist to read the image, but it looks to me like we may have found a problem.



While checking into all this I ran into some pictures that indicate that metal objects are not good for placing near the scanner. I'm surprised that the plate in my head that I got in 'Nam didn't pull out of my head.