VISITORS

our friends from NO where arrived on monday...from NO where you ask we'll i'll let you know...they are now full timers and haven't picked a state to be from so they are just from the good old USA...or NO where yet...

they brought with them rain and more rain...on monday afternoon we just caught up on all that has been going on in our lives since we last saw each other in wisconsin this spring...of course they home is with them all the time so they can go home even in a wal-mart...

yesterday we took a ride around the lakes cayuga and seneca lake and of course o9ne of our first stops was the women's hall of fame so we could both get our stamps..yep christine is one of us a national park stamp collector...we also worked on a junior ranger badge and did all the requirements and recieved the badges...we stopped at the amich market saunders and lar bought his favorite lunch stuff...ring bologna and parker house rolls..then we headed to sampson state park by then it wasn't raining so we found a dry place and had a picnic lunch...as soon as we got back in the car it started to rain again..

off we headed down seneca lake but first we had to find a winery to stop at cause it was time for some liquid refreshment...hazlit was the choice..after our samples

we landed in watkins glen..found a quilt store for christine to go in and fondle some fabric--she was good and only bought a couple of small patterns (tom says they have to watch the wieght in the rig)--the across the street to the famous brands store wher lar bought some dog walking boots and socks--tom a couple of golf shirts..then it was time to head

for home...i had planned on vension for dinner which we all enjoyed if i must say so...a couple iof games of cribbage--tom and lar won the first one and chris and i won the second

lar and i had a couple of appointments so tom and christine held the fort down..chris was in charge of cooking dinner (spelled good when we walked in the door) and tom put in a sliding rack in their rig (lar had an extra one )..

tomorrow the plan is to take them around ithaca and show the sights...