THE DAY AFTER AND THE DAY AFTER THAT

Hello, friends!  Happy birthday to me!  Yes, today I join the ranks of the senior citizens.  I've been told that this is a good thing because I will get lots of discounts at the stores.  It is early morning and nothing has happened yet, so I will tell you about my birthday tomorrow.  Today I will continue by telling you about the last two days.

The day after Christmas Elaine and I woke up long before Joe.  So we had a sisters breakfast together and had fun talking with each other.  She had a great breakfast of muffins and fruit salad that was so delicious.

We sat around and visited and played with Ace for awhile.  Then after Joe ate we watched the Queen's Christmas message.  We do this every year.  Usually on Christmas Day but with Elaine working and everything we forgot.

Elaine also gave us a wonderful lunch of all kinds of lunchmeat, cheeses and cookies.  We were so full when we left.

Before I left I took pictures of some of Elaine's decorations.  She always makes everything look so festive.

We left about 2:30 p.m. and although there was more traffic than on Christmas, we made it home in two hours.  What a wonderful Christmas we had!

The next day Joe and I traveled out to the Plymouth Meeting/Bridgeport area to meet his sister Mary for breakfast.  She lives in upstate New York and it has been years since we saw her.  We met at a café my brother recommended.  He lives around there so I knew he would know where to go.

We got a little lost getting there and so did Mary, but we still got there about the same time.  Look at the cute chicken they have in front of the place.

We had a great breakfast and talked for about two hours.  I found out so much about the family I married into.  The little things Joe does, his likes and dislikes, etc. were the same for Mary.  It was like looking at his clone.  They walk alike, stand alike, talk alike even eat alike.  They like and dislike the same foods.  Oh my!  I kept teasing them about it.

The time went by so quickly.  She had a six hour trip home to do so we finally had to leave.  Mary is hoping to move down here in the next year or two and we will definitely hang out together more.  She is the nicest sister-in-law you could imagine.

I did get a picture (or two) of them together before she left.

The rest of the day was spent trying to clean up the house.  There is so much stuff laying around and gifts to be put away.  I am still working on it.

That brings us up to yesterday.  I slept so late!  I didn't wake up until 11:30 a.m.  I must have needed the sleep.  But I was meeting my friends Carol and Donna for lunch so I hit the floor running.  I jumped into the shower and got dressed in record time.  I left a little late, but got to Donna's house to pick her up just 10 minutes late.  We still got to the restaurant before Carol did so that was fine.

We went to East Coast Wings and Grill.  I had the wings special, Donna her favorite shrimp tacos and Carol a burger.  We also exchanged Christmas gifts.  Such nice things they gave me.  I got two candles and two bars of scented soap along with candy and Donna gave me a unique thing called instant hot chocolate.  They are sticks with chocolate and marshmallows on the end.  You put them in hot water and it turns into hot chocolate.  Can't wait to try it.

I am getting ready now to start my birthday!  I will tell you all about it tomorrow and take some pictures too.  Hope you all have a happy Kathy's birthday today.  Ha ha!

Until later...

Kathy