Nice weekend with R.

R. had her short fall break on Friday. She managed to get a ride to Red Oak on Thursday night which took longer than advertised, so it was 11pm by the time we got home from picking her up there. She was able to talk to Stan and Betty for a while, and then they left the next morning after spending the week with us.

G.'s colleagues from Enterprise Architecture were here Wednesday - Friday, so I ordered pizza on Thursday noon to feed them and us and Stan and Betty. I got extra so we have some leftovers in the freezer. They took us out to eat on Thursday night at Spring Creek BBQ, so I've been well fed this week.

I took Friday off work to be with R. and to help her with a few school projects. She has two big projects due near the same time she will attempt to take the 3rd and final teacher certification test in November. I helped her by typing bibliography entries and doing photocopying and taking her to the library and stuff like that. It also helps if she reads confusing assignment instructions out loud to me and then we discuss what it means. She has always benefited from reading things out loud and/or discussing what things mean. She has a harder time simply reading something and fully understanding it.

Right after lunch on Friday I took her to get her hair cut, and it cost $5. My neighbor told me later about her daughter getting her hair "done" for $140! Of course, that included coloring it, but I was shocked. I had no idea it cost that much to go to a hairdresser. (Shows that I just take a pair of sissors to my hair, and maybe ask D. to help if he is home.) After her haircut we went and voted at the Dville library, then we did one of her school assignments (finding children's books about insects), then a quick trip to the fruit and veggie store and the bank and then home. By then she needed a nap. We had planned to go to the HS football game, but the weather didn't cooperate, so we did more hw instead.

On Saturday it was more hw, then an unsuccessful shoe shopping trip, then G. wanted to take us to Amaya's, an authentic Mexican restaurant in Lancaster. Immediately after that it was off to Cedar Valley college for their production of Annie. It was fun, more so because we know several of the cast members from church.

Today we skipped SS because it was actually canceled in lieu of a church meeting to discuss a new possible pastor. Then after church we did our usual Taco Bueno trip before driving R. back to Red Oak to get her ride back to school.

In other news, A. sent email saying he would be in Kenya this week at a Food Security conference. That is the new term for feeding the hungry. His friend, L., may be coming to visit us, which we are looking forward to.

D. phoned and left a message while we were out last night. I just phoned him back but he said he would call us back later. Right now he found a Steinway to practice on so he wanted to play until someone kicks him out (of the President's chapel at the National Presby church). He says they don't usually lock the place.

G. will be busy with the Ethnologue again this week. When will it finally get finished??