Day of Exploring

Another cold night in Pennsylvania. We had e-mails from some of our friends in Florida today and they are also having below freezing temperatures and really minding the cold, as the insulation in their home isn't the same "R" rating as here in PA.

A letter from my sister in northern Florida arrived today and she had 10 degrees and thought maybe we should stay in PA and be warmer. Another letter from a girlfriend in Ohio and they are also shivering and soon to leave for Florida.

Yesterday after church we took Lou's sister, that had just returned from Texas, out to lunch with us then Lou and I spent the afternoon listening to book three of his William W. Johnstone Eagles series. I had purchased the whole series for him before Christmas; however, book three was not available, and we later found it as an graphic audio, which has been fun listening to, just like listening to an old radio show. We listened to that yesterday while I worked on my scrapbook of our trip south in the fall. I was so glad I had written everything down about our trip, it made matching up pictures with dialog so much easier.

Today, we left after breakfast to meet Lou's son and wife (Preston and Susie) at a half way point to have lunch together. We met at Restless Oak Restaurant, had a very tasty lunch and time to catch up on happenings since Christmas. The restaurant was still decorated for Christmas, was wonderfully warm, which came from an honest to goodness fireplace with a roaring fire. It was a very rustic eating place and decorated with many antiques inside and out. I felt I had visited a museum, very enjoyable.

After we said our goodbyes, we filled up with gas at 2.79 and drove to the Woolrich Outlet, only to find it closed today for inventory.

So we decided to take route 44 back towards home, then decided to check out Little Pine State Park. Everything looked so different with snow on it and speaking of snow we made a side trip to Ski Sawmill and watched the brave souls skiing and snowboarding. Neither of us had ever been there, so we enjoyed seeing a new sight. Lou has a nephew that works there, so we had heard much about the winter haven for skiers. It made me wish my feet would allow me to ski again. All in all was a nice day.

Home to have a quick supper and a walk before dark and now we are off to Bible study. Sounds like we may get to shovel snow for exercise tomorrow.

Lou and I are both finding that our sweet tooth still needs to be satisfied, hopefully, we will be able to exercise more in the south than we have here.