Totally gonna cheat here. For the first time, I missed my nightly blogpost update last night. It's Saturday morning, but I'm going to change the posting date from automatic to Friday night. Ha.
So this morning, Friday morning since its Friday night :), we woke up in Great- Grandma's apartment. We had breakfast and loaded up the car before heading to the rehab center. We had a nice visit, Betty joined us there too. The plan is to have Great- Grandma back home at Loomis Village in time for her birthday, hopefully moving day will be next Friday. The kids played with some small teddy bears that Great- Grandma had. Abby would slide them down the hospital bed railing and, surprise surprise, Chloe had to try it too. It was a nice time, sad to say goodbye.
We had a long drive down to Granddaddy Clay's house in Virginia. Coleson, our awesome navigator, found us a Chick-fil-a so we could celebrate Cow Appreciation day. This was harder task than I had realized it'd be, there are not many Chick-fil-a's up north. We stopped for lunch in Union, NJ. At home, in the deep south, in the heart of Chick-fil-a territory, everyone goes all out. I rarely see anyone not fully costumed, and we are often way out-dressed. Not so in Union, NJ. They don't get Chick-fil-a up here. They didn't even have a cow walking the restaurant, can you believe that?! :) We ran into a family from Georgia, they went to Lassiter and UGA. They said they were so excited when this Chick-fil-a opened a few months ago and they would drive out of the way to eat there. So all that to say, we were very very overdressed! And we didn't even do any face paint or anything. I think Coleson was a wee bit embarrassed initially, but when the bill went from $30 to free, it was pretty awesome. We were a sight in the crowded NJ parking lot that Chick-fi-a shared with an old gas station. But it was fun! I'll have to get Coleson to a cow day back home one year so he can better understand the excitement.
There's no good way to get out of New England, so as usual it wasn't one of our favorite driving days, and we hit some traffic, especially through Harrisburg, PA. But we made it. At one point, we were driving over a river and train tracks, and we happened to glance down, and you know who we saw?! Thomas the Train. How cool is that?! Another highlight, in my opinion at least, was passing a couple of jetskis being towed. Abby exclaimed : "there's some motorcycle boats!" We arrived here in Ashburn about 7:30pm and had some yummy Subway subs for dinner. The kids played for a few minutes before heading up to bed. Unfortunately it took a long time to settle down and it was close to 10 before they were asleep, yikes! Us adults stayed up looking through old Chase family photo albums. It was really cool. Most of the pictures were of Great- Grandma's side of the family, her parents, Elmer and Olive, and her sister Betty. Sadly Betty passed away from leukemia at age 20. I love all the history in the Chase family, so interesting, lots to ponder and think through.
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