Birthday, Shopping, Football, Caching 11/13-17/2008

On Thursday Mom and the Cashions went shopping again at Tanger Outlets and of course I stayed home. It was Mom's birthday of course and we had a caching meeting at, of all places Friendly's Rest. We attended the meeting and then after we came back to the house for Mom's surprise party. Ed, Gina and Steve joined the rest of us as we had a birthday torte for Mom. She enjoyed it and said afterwards that she was kind of disappointed that we hadn't had anything at the meeting but the meeting really was lousy. We were stuck in a back room and they didn't have the soup that Mom wanted. We can't figure out why they have these meetings at places like this but we figure it is the person that arranges them as he is a Baptist preacher and is adamantly against drinking so he finds places that don't serve liquor. Everyone left around 10:00 and we watched TV for ahile till bed time.
Friday was Mom's day at the nursery so she left about 8:30 and the Cashions were also leaving this morning so I saw them off about 10:00. John wanted to get home by Saturday so he could go to the SU-UConn football game at the dome, and for the life of me I couldn't figure out why as they lost 39-14. I spent the day cleaning and doing my cross stitch. Mom got home about 2:30 and told me it was kind of a sad day in the nursery as they had a baby that had died they think a day or so before it was born so everybody was kind of down because of that. We had dinner and watched TV till bed time.
Saturday and Sunday were spent watching NCAA football and NFL football. Mom ran a few errands on Saturday and went to the grocery store on Sunday. She has been trying to walk as much as she can in hopes her leg and foot might get better before she has to start therapy in December. We really aren't sure what our plans are going to be for Christnas as yet as it depends on everybodies schedule and how her leg and foot respond to the therapy. We had a roasted chicken on Sunday for dinner and it really tasted good as it has turned very cold down here and will be for at least the next week or so.
Monday we got back on the caching trail and went out 501 and found a bunch of caches. Our first cache was outside the Myrtle Beach Speedway, next was a book cache where you can exchange books in the cache, third cache was along a back road in the woods, fourth was another cache off a dirt road, fifth was a cache in the woods at the end of a road in a new housing development, sixth was a cache in the bamboo near the Socastee swing bridge, next was a cache located at the end of a road in a proposed housing tract, eighth was a cache near the entrance to a housing development, ninth was a cache inside the Socastee Library and the last cache was another located at the entrance to another housing tract. All in all iut was a good day caching as the weather was great, although cool. We did see a bad house fire as we were going from cache to cache and the house was completely destroyed in the fire and was raging as we drove to where we could see it as you can see by the pictures. We stopped at Sam's and got our turkey and some more oil for Thanksgiving and the drove back to the house. We had lunch and Mom did our logs and I worked on our caches for Tuesday. Well time to say adios until next time and we love and miss you all. Mom & Dad


Picture List:1,2,3,4,5,6-Mom's birthday party, 7,8-House fire in Socastee.