Day 32

Graduation Day

Jun 7, 2013, 9:42 PM

Steve and I are just getting back to the Hampton Inn. We watched Connor graduate from High School today. Everyone is so happy for and proud of Connor. But let's back up and I'll tell you about the rest of the day. . .  We woke up early this morning, got a phone call, but that's OK. We got showered, I was getting dressed when I realized the top I'd planned to wear to the graduation had a whole in it. Come on, this is the second one in as many weeks. Steve and I were going to have to make a side trip to Kohls. I'd seen one on our way in and it was an emergency! So we went to breakfast and then to Kohls. 

When we got back from Kohls the housekeeping cart was in the hall several rooms up from ours. Then a nice girl came out of a room and Steve asked here if our room had already been cleaned. She said she hadn't done it but yes it had been cleaned. When we walked into the room you could have knocked me over with a feather. When we walked into the room yesterday the bed was made with a duvet on it, when we went to bed last night it was too heavy so I took it off the bed and left it on the bench at the bottom of the bed and I got the blanket out of the closet and just put that on the bed instead. Well the maid had made the bed, if you can call what she did making the bed, by pulling up the sheet and the blanket and left the duvet in a pile at the end of the bed. The bed wasn't even made well. I was shocked and I wanted to complain, but Steve didn't think it was important and you know Steve if it isn't important to him then by God it isn't important. WHATEVER!!!!! Oh and I almost forgot the towels, we had gotten extra towels the day before, now I'm no rocket scientist, but if you take three bath towels out and the same people will be in the room again, wouldn't it stand to reason that you'd put three bath towels back in, I'm just saying. I'm just saying!!!!

We got in touch with Jimmy and Jenine and we all decided to have an early dinner then go to the graduation so that we got good seats. When we got there they weren't even letting people in yet, so needless to say we had our pick of seats. The graduation was blissfully short, there were only about 200 kids graduating, that is always the worst part, just listening to the drone of names, you get excited when your graduate is called, then back to the drone. This time there were no speeches from community leaders or teachers or any of that stuff that no one listens to, however there were several very good student speeches. Plus listening to the accomplishments of the students as they were introduced was fascinating. Of course the salutatorian and the valedictorian were girls, but the really interesting fact was the valedictorian's mother and grandmother had both been the valedictorian of their classes. What a great legacy to pass down to your children, however I'm sure it also comes with a huge sense of responsibility if you just aren't up to the academics. The valedictorian had a weighted GPA of 4.98. That is huge!, just huge and I was so impressed with both girls. 

We had the most fun of the night watching the photographer struggle to get photos of the graduates as they walked off the stage. I'm sure in the rehearsal the kids were told there would be a photographer at the end of the stage as they walked off and they'd be having their photo taken there, but one after the other they just started to walk back to their seats. The poor photographer would go running after them and get them to come back for their photo but of course that drone of names that I mentioned didn't stop for anything. So at one point there was one heck of a bottle neck. Now there were people that were part of this production sitting right in front of us, I can't imagine they didn't see this happening too, and why they didn't do anything is just beyond me. I wanted to go help, but given the circumstances I stayed in my seat and just empathized for the poor man. 

Then before you know it Connor is on his feet and he'll be crossing the stage. I didn't take the lap top with us so I haven't been able to see the photos yet, but I hope there is just one that will do it for me. All in all, it was great to see everyone, we were so happy for Connor to be done with high school. Now Connor it is up to you what you do with your life. Good luck!!!!!!

Day 31

Driving To North Carolina :-(

 Jun 6, 2013, 10:14 AM

WOW! I know I am spoiled and I rather like it that way, but boy oh boy I am really spoiled when it comes to travel. We left right when we planned at 8 AM, so we have only been in the car for two hours and I'm already miserable. We typically don't go much more than two hours in the car. I have to pee, I want something to munch on, I am uncomfortable, I WANT MY RV. no worries, we'll be there in another six hours. 

Jun 6, 2013, 1:58 PM

It has been raining, actually pouring pretty much nonstop since before we were out of Pennsylvania. We stopped in Natural Bridge, Virginia for lunch at the Pink Cadillac. It was right off the highway and I think that says it all right there. We were greeted at the door by a waitress with a very un-natural shade of red hair, but who am I to criticize your choice of Crayola Hair Dye. She asked us how many, now I'm miserable and on my best days I always want to make a smart reply to that question, but today I really had to hold my tongue. I wanted to tell her 12, don't you see them, they are standing right in front of you. But some people look at you like you're crazy when you do that. The place as the name implies is 50's themed, we sat in the Elvis Room. The place could and should have been really upbeat and cheery but sadly no. It was dimly lit and looked shabby, I thought if they would just make it brighter it would be so much more pleasant. Maybe it was the dreary day that made it worse than it was, but I doubt it. The food wasn't bad, but that's as far as I'll go. When I went to use the restroom before we left I realized why they don't make the room brighter. The room you had to walk through to get to the restroom was decorated like a soda shop and it was much more brightly lit, it didn't help. You could see the place needed a good cleaning, painting, and just overall upgrade, so maybe the dim lights in the Elvis Room were a blessing. Oh and let me tell you about the restroom. It was garishly pink even by my standards, and that's saying something, but the best part of all was the broken mini blind slats in the window right next to the toilet. Anyone standing on the side of the building had a perfect view into the ladies restroom. OMG!!!!! Oh the joys of traveling by car. I can't wait to see what is in store for us next. 

Jun 6, 2013, 2:43 PM

Well don't you know, we didn't have to wait long before there was excitement on the road. We are driving along, oh and by the way, it always amazes me how many people driving in pouring rain are doing it without their lights on. Typically too, it's the ones that are in the cars the color of the road surface or something that blends into either the rain or the water being kicked up off the road. You know what I mean, gray, white, silver, black, sometimes I think people go out of their way to be stupid. Anyway, the traffic just came to a complete and total stop. Some very special people used their personal lane to get around the traffic, to the majority of us the shoulder of the road is where you coast your car when it breaks down or if you get a flat, but for a select and exclusive few it becomes a personal lane that allows them to avoid traffic the rest of us must endure. How special you must be, oh you privileged few. We never did figure out what stopped traffic and thank God it wasn't for long before we were back moving again. 

Jun 6, 2013, 8:27 PM

We met up with the parents of the graduate and we had a really nice dinner at Shatley Springs. It is one of those places where they serve you family style. Really good!!!! We talked and laughed and had a nice evening, but now we are back to the hotel. OH I forgot to tell you about the hotel. You just aren't going to believe this. We are in West Jefferson, North Carolina and the Hampton Inn is costing us about $150/night. THERE IS NOTHING HERE, so you would think the room will be killer. You'd be wrong. There is a bed, a chest of drawers with a TV on it, and a table to use as a desk. That's it!!!!!! What the hell is this about. Oh well whatever, the nice thing someone else will be making the bed tomorrow. YES!!!!!!!

Good night all!!

Day 30

Freightliner Service Today

Jun 5, 2013, 9:21 AM

Well we were up right after the sun this morning and I'm not sure if I'm going crazy or what but it seems like it was much brighter here at 5:30 AM, then it is in Florida at 5:30 AM. I can't imagine how that could be either, but Steve thought it was too. Anyway we wanted to get the RV into Freightliner as soon as possible this morning and they open at 7:00 AM. So we dropped off the RV and went to get breakfast. We stopped at a Cracker Barrel, always a good choice for breakfast. 

I have to admit I'm not looking forward to the call from Freightliner telling us how much it's going to cost to get the RV fixed. I may have to set up an online account for donations or start charging to read the blog. I think either way we wouldn't get much. 

Jun 5, 2013, 1:54 PM

OK I realize I said I wasn't looking forward to the call from Freightliner, but some information would be nice. After we got breakfast we decided to go to a Camping World in Hanover, PA. We figured what the heck, we have all day, but we can't really do anything cause we don't know how much time we have. It's a waiting game. So we picked up the couple things we'd not gotten at the camping world in Jersey (you may have noticed there is a distinction to be made between the camping world in Jersey and the Camping World in Hanover). This store was very nice, helpful people and I had to chuckle. The store in Jersey had the GPS that we have and I wanted to get a sun shade for it, but they didn't have them. I asked and the guy told me "Oh that's a new GPS we don't have any accessories for it yet". At the Hanover store, they didn't have the GPS anywhere that I saw but they had the accessories. It is a crazy topsy turvy world we live in people. After we dropped the RV, went to breakfast, went to Camping World in Hanover, we thought hey, we're close, let's go to Gettysburg. So we drive up to Gettysburg. We went to the National Military Park Visitor's Center and Museum. We got the information to do the self guided driving tour of the battle grounds. We hit #1 McPherson Ridge, then as we were driving to #2 Eternal Light Peace Memorial we drove through an intersection that was backed up for miles, and it was not moving. Steve said "I'm glad we aren't going that way." Damned if you don't know to get to #3 we have to go that way, so we decided so much for that. We headed back towards Freightliner. It's almost 2 PM, they have got to know something by now, right. Please tell me right, I'm hanging on by a thread here. 

Jun 5, 2013, 2:35 PM

Oh you are going to love this. We pull into the Freightliner lot and the RV is sitting in the back corner. Nobody's working on it. I don't have a good feeling about this!!!!! I'll let you know what happens next. 

I don't know if I am happy or really pissed off. So let's recap, on the way up here if we had to hit the brakes hard the RV banged and pulled to the left, we made an appointment to take it in to Camping World/camping world (if you don't know what this means, shame on you for not being a faithful reader of my blog-I'm not telling you, you can go back and find it for yourself) on Monday. They tell us we need new air bags, shocks, and bump stops on the left side and the right air bag and shocks should be replaced too, we should take it to Freightliner; cost $59 (to do nothing). We make an appointment with Freightliner for Wednesday to have the RV fixed, we stay at a campground so that Robert and Kim aren't unconvinced anymore than necessary, Robert has to move his RV out of the way, then put it back as soon as we are all settled; campground cost $50/night, 2 nights $100. Then we have today, Freightliner, found nothing wrong; cost $120. In total $279.00 and several days of retirement lost forever. I'm done!!!!!!! Thats it, no more. We are not going to worry about it anymore. 

Jun 5, 2013, 5:04 PM

So we are back and things are all set up again just in time to drive tomorrow to NC for Connor's (Steve's grandson) high school graduation. 

Day 29

French Creek State Park and Hopewell Furnace

Jun 4, 2013, 11:48 AM

We packed lunches, picked up Kim and Alex and headed out to Hopewell Furnace. Kim had remembered that they had reduced hours in the winter, so before we got to her house she tried to call, didn't get an answer so she checked on the web to make sure today would be a good day to visit. On the website it said June to October it was open seven days a week, so we figured we were good. Steve and I needed to stop at a Wawa to get drinks before getting to the park and we completely forgot. So Kim tried to call again and see if there might be vending machines at the visitor center or anywhere we'd be able to get drinks, otherwise we were going to have to go find some somewhere. Well someone answered this time and guess what, because of budget cutbacks (bullshit) the visitor center isn't open on Monday's and Tuesday's. Really? Well thank you very much, hey what you want to bet the people that are normally there are volunteer docents anyway. I would not be surprised. Boy, travel can be a real eye opener!!! Well don't you worry, even though the visitor center was closed and there would be no one to man the different buildings and give the typical spiel, you were still able to walk around and there are recorded messages and It would be just fine. Possibly better then we would have had otherwise. When we got there there were three cars in the parking lot but there was no one around. We had the run of the place. We found a picnic table in the shade so we ate lunch the whole time commenting on how much fun we were going to have with no one else around. After we ate we walked down to the Iron Master's Mansion. There was a garden we explored. Kim found a map of the garden plantings hanging on the gate and we walked around looking at all of the plants that really weren't being taken care of very well at all. Kim and I found what looked like a wall from a crumbled down building and another part of a wall that could have been more of the building or just another wall, we get to make up our own story and there was no one to tell us we were wrong. Then we saw the brick ovens and went into the spring house. We walked over to the cast house and furnace stack where there was a water wheel. I decided this place was haunted. The eerie sounds that were coming from this building gave me the creeps. The whole visit was so much fun and we explored almost every bit of Hopewell. We spent a few minutes with some plow horses and we stood on a bridge over a little creek and watched the fish. Alex and Kim found part of a robin's egg shell. I guess babies were up in the trees somewhere. 

Jun 4, 2013, 2:45  PM

Well we have had enough fun at Hopewell for the day. It is time to get some refreshment. At first I was thinking DQ, but then I remembered I haven't had a decent water ice in so long. Kim said there is a chain of water ice places called Rita's that are pretty good and don't you know there was one just 4.5 miles away. Gotta love the GPS! Hell I'd walk that far for a good water ice. 

Jun 4, 2013, 3:22 PM

Rita's was a huge success. They had new and different flavors. I tried Alex's Lemonade, it was good. I tried Swedish Fish flavor, that was just like eating Swedish Fish except nothing got caught in your teeth. I settled on cherry, yum!! Steve got a root beer, Kim got mango and Alex got a Heath Bar milk shake. Now we are on our way back to Kim and Robert's house. We have some mischief in store for Catherine and Akio, but I will get into that more later.

Jun 4, 2013, 4:59 PM

Oh we were BAD! When we went to Zern's we found signs for radioactive area and a white paper contamination kind of coveralls and we found a face mask, pink even. So we put up caution tape and a couple signs and the suit and we put a CSI type chalk outline in the drive. What fun we had!!!!!! I can't wait to hear what Catherine and Akio think when they get home. 

While we were sitting at Kim's Steve said his stomach was starting to growl. So we are all off to Miller's Smorgasbord. Oh I bet you are all jealous!! Miller's was so good! Kim almost started a riot at the meat carving station. Steve went up to the guy that was carving the roast beef and asked for a slice. He didn't realize that Kim was lurking. The carver sliced the roast beef, stabbed it with his fork and was leaning over to place it on Steve's plate when Kim came out of nowhere and slid her plate right over Steve's so that the meat was put on her plate instead of his. Then she smiled sweetly, as only Kim can when she is being particularly evil, at Steve and she walked away. Steve said the look on the carving guys face was utter shock that someone would be so bold. The poor man, Steve didn't give the guy any kind of an explanation he just waited for the next slice of roast beef then walked away. That poor man is probably still shaking his head over that one and can you imagine the story he had to tell when he got home. By this time Steve is coming back to the table and telling me "you will never believe what that crazy sister of yours did now, . . .", and he proceeds to tell me what she did. Of course this gets me laughing and I look up to see her standing in line at another buffet table and she has the biggest shit eating grin and she waves at me because of course she knows that he just told me what she did. Well that started even more giggling from me. We had the kids at the next table staring and Steve told me I was scaring the straights again, but there is nothing new there. The best part of the meal was the waffles and ice cream I had for dessert. Kim had walked by the guy that was filling the waffle tray up and he was just pulling new waffles off the waffle iron, so Kim asked him if she could have one of the fresh waffles and of course he gave her one. She came back to the table with this really good waffle. Now this place serves waffles and chicken and that doesn't even sound appealing to me, but when Steve came back to the table with a piece of apple pie with vanilla ice cream on top the wheels started turning. Kim said the waffle was a regular waffle, not something chicken flavored, I wasn't sure about it till she tried it, so I figured waffles and ice cream it was. I got a hot waffle then I took it to the guy serving the ice cream and he put a scoop on top for me and even topped that off with whipped cream. Oh good Lord I was in heaven. It was sooooooooo good!!!!! 

After we ate Kim and Robert wanted to see the campground we were in. Robert was sure that they had stayed there a few years ago and it was just a field then, Kim was certain they hadn't. The Country Acres Campground is now really pretty, the sites are nice size, and they have either been dug in or built up so they are level, it all looks new and there are pretty little flower beds all over. We were very happy with the stay. 

So we are all sitting around waiting to see if Catherine and Akio call, Kim and I are giggling about how funny it will be when they turn into the drive way and see the body outlines, then Kim's phone rings. It's Catherine. She grabs the phone laughing and has to serious up before she can answer. She is good at playing it straight. We are all listening, "oh so you're home then. . . Oh no. . . Is he ok. . ." We can't tell what's going on from Kim's side of the conversation. When Kim hung up she let us in on the fact that they were home but Geo had fallen in the airport and hurt his arm, they were going to have to go to the ER. I just hope our joke is still funny after a trip to the hospital. 

Oh my gosh, another day done. 

Day 28

Tough Day

Jun 3, 2013, 7:29 PM

OK today was NOT a stellar day. We had an appointment at Camping World to have the air bags looked at. Steve has noticed a problem when we have to jump on the brakes. You have to jump on the brakes a lot when you drive an RV. People don't seem to realize they don't stop on a dime, but hell, why worry about that, just pull right in front of us with only an inch to spare, we like that. So anyway there was a small parade at Kim and Robert's this morning so that the vehicles could be moved in an on again off again drizzle/rain. 

So we drive through terrible traffic, at points sitting still for several minutes, and we have now used up the extra 45 minutes we allowed for a trip that should have taken 45 minutes to an hour and we finally arrive. We explain the problem the the camping world people (you will note I am no longer capitalizing camping world cause they have gone DOWN in my book, but I'm getting ahead of myself here) and are off to find a laundromat. 

I can't find a category on the GPS that would cover laundromat, so I just type in laundromat, there is always more than one way to skin a cat (that's a horrible expression, have you ever thought about that?) and several pop up. So being the intelligent two people we are, I hit the first one and off we go. Very soon we are about to go over the bridge into Pennsylvania again. I didn't want to do that and have to go back and have all those tolls to pay, so we turn around and try a different laundromat. For the love of God don't people in Jersey ever do laundry? There were about six different laundromat s listed within like ten miles and they were in Pennsylvania. Come on people I know that somewhere east of the shores of the Delaware River there MUST BE a laundromat. So we stop at a Wawa to regroup and Steve wanted a coffee and I can always be talked into a Tastykake. Steve gets out of the car and I stayed behind to figure out where a laundromat was in the direction I wanted. I FOUND ONE!!!!!! I had to rush out to tell him, I get out of the car, here he is leaning in the window of a car with two women in it asking them where a laundromat was in the area. REALLY?????? He is lucky he didn't get maced. Strange man walking up to my window with the lame excuse of needing a laundromat would have put me on edge, and don't you know it is the same damn one I just found! Whatever, I just want to wash my freaking clothes at this point. I don't want to have to turn underware inside out and I sure as hell don't want Steve to. OMG!!

THE WASH IS DONE, and me to at this point. FIVE freaking loads, and I was combining at that point, I wasn't paying for six loads. It was almost 1PM by this time and we needed lunch. While we were sitting there Steve decided to find out what the progress with the RV was. So he called camping world. He talked to the service woman, she transferred him to the guy that was actually working on the RV, he was telling Steve all of these things that were wrong and then I guess Steve got transferred back to the woman at the counter again. I think she was supposed to be in the process of getting the parts needed. She asked Steve who made the chassis, now, stop me if I'm wrong here, but they are WORKING ON THE RV, it is in their possession. Why would she ask us, it's with them, take a look at it, there is a sticker on the RV, it's right outside the RV door and I'm sure in plenty of other places too. Then she tells us, maybe we should just go to Freightliner, that might be better. "They are better equipped to do this kind of repair", she told him.  Steve told her we were finishing up lunch and would be back very soon, and with that my lunch no longer look very appealing. We got back and they were unorganized and not much help and several other things I wanted to pick up at camping world weren't available. I wasn't happy and we all know how I get when I'm not happy!

We paid, I have to admit it was decent to only charge us half price since they did really nothing, it was the LEAST they could do. We went out to the RV to call Freightliner. I had my doubts that was going to go anywhere, it was already after 2PM, but we really had little choice. Steve called the number they gave us in camping world, when they told us Freightliner was just down the street, the number was to a Freightliner in South Carolina. OK, now I'm just making things up, right? I would love to tell you yes, but sadly no. I would say at this point "to make a long story short", but it's way too late for that. We have an appointment with a Freightliner service place in Lancaster on Wednesday. 

I stead of putting Kim and Robert through a lot of trouble we pulled into a campground very near the service location. I'm beat, that's all you're getting tonight.

Day 27

The Big Reveal

Jun 2, 2013, 8:49 PM

Today our little project is done, but I'm going to make you wait before the big reveal. . .

Last night Robert, Steve, and I decided it would be nice to do breakfast. We didn't really firm up whether we were going to make breakfast or go out. So this morning before the appointed hour I called Kim and us girls sort of decided we needed to go out. So we did!!!!! We tried this new little place that Robert had been wanting to try, it wasn't very far from the house, the Brass Eagle. So off we went, Kim and I tried to get the guys to go in one car so that she and I could go off after breakfast. We wanted to move things around in her craft room. There was a bed in there that really needed to come out and we wanted to look for lights and just a few odds and ends. We thought we could scare the guys off by telling them we were going to go to Walmart, but it didn't work. So after a good breakfast, this place was a bit of a find, Kim had poo poo'd it a couple times before but it was clean, good, fast, correct, I mean what more could you want? And the waitress had personality. So to get to the point after breakfast we ALL went to Walmart. 

Well that in itself was a trip. Herding cats, that's all I'm going to say. Kim and I were able to find a nice floor lamp that had a reading lamp attached and it was such a great price we almost fell over. We found a few other things that we needed then picked up stuff for dinner. We were making chicken cacciatore. We thought we had everything, then we realized Alex hadn't gotten sunglasses, his had broken. So off Alex and Robert went in search of sunglasses. We checked out with the rest of the stuff and still no Robert and Alex, so Kim went to find them. Herding cats, that's all I'm going to say!! 

Anyway, we are home now. We have dinner rolls rising, we have chicken cacciatore in the crock pot cooking, and all of this before 1PM. My gosh I know, some of you are thinking there must be a pod in the basement. I don't know how it happened either. Then the fun really started. We got rid of Steve, plopped his butt in front of the TV to watch the race. Kim and I started moving furniture out of the craft room and rearranged the furniture in the room. Robert and Alex lent a hand with the heavy lifting. NOW we are ready to get back to our project. Kim a while ago had let it slip that she had no idea how to sew. Sewing is something I used to do a lot. So I really wanted to help teach her while I was here. She had Alex take a sewing class through the 4-H so that she could listen in and learn, but she didn't get enough from that so the other day we picked up a simple pattern for an apron, we got the material and thread and we started our project and today we finished it. I "helped" and I interpreted pattern speak, but Kim did all the work and she did a GREAT job. I couldn't be more proud of her. She is a whiz at whatever she puts her mind to and she has put her mind to sewing. 

Enjoy the photos of her big accomplishment. That's it for today. Steve is bitching that I'm writing too damn much just to tell people that Kim made an apron, but I had to have the lead in and for God's sake do you want just bullet points or do you want to feel like you are peeking in the windows. Come on now, be honest! I'll tell you more tomorrow, bye!!

Day 26

Chester County 4-H Dog Agility Competition

Jun 1, 2013, 1:35 PM

The muffins we made yesterday were off to the Chester County 4-H Dog Agility Competition. Kim left early with Alex, muffins, easy up, water, and an ice filled cooler. I went out about 11AM to see how things were going and to take some pictures of the competition, but that last little bit of information really shouldn't surprise anybody. 

I have never been to a dog agility competition, but last night I stayed at a holiday inn express, (I just had to throw that in, it was too perfect a set up), anyway, I've seen them on TV before and I've always thought they look like so much fun. I was right it was really cool. There were lots of dogs and breeds that I didn't associate with agility training. It was fascinating to see the dogs running through tunnels, or jumping through tires and over fences. Those dogs looked like they were having the time of their lives, and the only ones working harder than the dogs were the owners. They were pretty much running right along side the dogs giving orders to the dog about what obsticle came next. I wish the weather had been better. I would have spent more time there but it's really hot here and the competition is in the middle of a big field with almost no shade. Philadelphia is trapped in the middle of a heat wave, it should break Sunday into Monday. We have had some of the crazies weather since leaving Florida. We go to extremes; hot, cold, rain, wind, pretty much the only thing we haven't encountered is snow and it makes me think we could be in for one hell of a ride later in the trip.  

Since Kim is going to be on a hot field pretty much all afternoon we kind of decided, actually I decided, we need a break from cooking. I'm thinking pizza tonight for dinner. I'll be sure to let you know how that goes later. 

Jun 1, 2013, 6:34 PM

The guys wanted us to pick up beer, so Kim and I ran and got pizza and beer. It's a treat to have good pizza close. It's been so long since that has been the case for Steve and I. For the rest of the evening the boys are going to watch a movie and Kim and I are going to start to do some serious work on our project. HA HA, I'm keeping you in the dark still. Maybe I shouldn't you guys are going to let your imaginations run wild and then when we reveal our project you are going to be all, "that's it, THAT'S the big project!!!!" Awe hell, you'll get over it. That's what you get for reading the ramblings of a crazy woman. THE JOKES ON YOU!! Who's crazy now, huh? Yeah, not me!!!! The voices in my head said I'm just fine, it's the rest of you. 

I almost forgot to mention, the voices had to remind me, but the bake sale raised $238.00 for Alex's group!!! Yea kids!!!!!!!!! They deserve a lot of credit, it was hot and those kids kept wheeling a cooler around with drinks trying to sell them and the dog treats and baked goods.