We arrived Friday in time to leave the yellow Jeep at the Tyler home with Todd. Then we went to check in to our hotel room and unwind a bit before dinner. Nissa was working and we were waiting for her to finish work before they joined us for a nice dinner. Our plan was to walk the three or four blocks to the restaurant. They called to alert us the rain had started and they would come to the hotel and pick us up and take us to Hennessy's. It was absolutely lovely having dinner with just Nissa and Todd. Most of the time we are doing all the family together. But this time we opted to just leave that evening for the adults. Such nice conversation and good food. Just a really lovely evening.
Friday we got to sleep in until we wanted to get out of bed. Rare and wonderful treat. Nissa would work until noon. We would pick her up from work leaving Todd the car to get himself home. Then we would have until 4pm with just Claude, Nissa and me. We would get the title signed and notarized, have lunch and visit. How nice was that! Very, very nice.
But, before we left the hotel we had an interesting thing happen. I went in to get my shower and when I pulled the shower curtain out to get the liner inside the tub and the curtain outside the tub I realized there was a washcloth draped over the shower curtain rod. It had been tucked between the folds of the shower curtain and we had not noticed it until then. I asked Claude if he had used a washcloth since we arrived. He assured me he had not. I washed my hands when we checked in and at other times. I opened a washcloth and used it as a hand towel for that. It had been on the bathroom counter since and we both had used it for a hand towel. I had placed it in the shower before opening the shower curtain so that I could use it to bathe. This was someone else's washcloth on the shower curtain rod. I took a picture. Then, when we went downstairs to leave for the day, I showed the picture to the front desk clerk and assured her from my work at a hotel I knew there should be a house keeping supervisor that checked each housekeepers work before a room was given to the front desk as ready for check-in. This meant a housekeeper and a housekeeping supervisor missed this part of their cleaning. She assured me they would get with housekeeping about this error. We left for the day and, other than sharing the story with Nissa and Todd, we really didn't think about it much until that night.
Nissa had called the Credit Union she uses to be sure they had a notary on duty. They assured her they did. We went to the branch of the Credit Union Nissa uses to get the signatures and notary work done. The notary asked if Nissa and Claude were members of the Credit Union. Nissa assured her she was but that her father was not. Claude told her he was a member of the Federal Employees Credit Union in Washington, DC but he was not a member of their Credit Union. She refused to notarized the car title since they weren't both members of the Credit Union. Mind you, this was the same Credit Union we used with Katelyn and the Buick, it was just a different branch closer to Nissa's home. The notary didn't care that the other branch had done this for Katelyn and Claude. They had told us when Katelyn called that, if we weren't members, they could do the notarizing but it would cost $20. If one of us was a member, there would be no charge. We left. We drove to the branch we used with Katelyn. The notary there was on duty, the same one we used with Katelyn. We asked if she could notarize the title to the Jeep. We told her Nissa was a member of the Credit Union and she said fine. The notary work was done and we were happy. Whew. Not sure why one branch would notarize and the other would not. But we got the job done.
The kids started to arrive around 4pm. Paul first, then the Roper car with the Ropers and Aubrey. Good to have the grandmonsters together. The plan was to wait for Todd to get off from work and then all go to Pizza Ranch for dinner. Todd was concerned, since it was a Friday evening and Pizza Ranch is a popular place, that we would not be able to get a table. So he suggested we go ahead and have dinner and he would find something at home. We all went to Pizza Ranch and enjoyed pizza and fried chicken and dessert. Raelyn entertained us with her newest scrunched up face. She loves making this funny face.
I ordered a chicken plate with mashed potatoes and gravy for Todd for his dinner before we left. He LOVES Pizza Ranch fried chicken and mashed potatoes.
Claude and I took Paul home. Katelyn and Drew took Nissa and Aubrey home. Then Katelyn and Drew came back to Nissa's to visit.
This is when Raelyn did her walking and I actually got it on video. She is walking a lot more but whenever anyone pulls out a camera she quickly hits the ground and crawls. This little one has a definite idea of how her life should go. But at the end of the evening she was trying to stay awake and it gave the me opportunity to get a video of our wobbly toddler.
The Ropers had to get Raelyn home and to bed. Claude and I also left. Nissa and Todd had very early morning on Saturday and Drew had to work the night shift.
When we got back to the hotel and to our room, we found this on the desk in our room.
When we checked out Saturday morning, I stopped at the desk to give them the rooms keys so they would know the room was vacant. The front desk clerk smiled and asked if we had a lovely stay. Hmmmm.... I told her I was the lady with the dirty washcloth on my shower curtain rod. She knew immediately who I was when I said that. I told her how we appreciated the gesture with the card, candy and water. However...we were out of the hotel for nine hours and, even though someone came into our room, no one cleaned our room. I assured her that left me a little frustrated. I did not yell. I just calmly told her the problem. Then we left. We will try a different hotel next time.
Outside the snow was falling. We had to scrap the windows of the Envision. The seat warmers felt good when we got into the car to drive away. The roads had just enough snow accumulated to make them slippery. But by the time we got to Chelsea, Michigan there was no snow on the roads.
We had a nice lunch with Jake at the Mexican Restaurant in Chelsea. Then we headed on to Sadieville and he headed to Ann Arbor.
We made it home in great shape but Claude was starting to exhibit signs of a cold through the day. By the time we got home his voice was an octave lower. Hope he gets well quickly.
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