Thursday, October 18, 2007
A Trip Down Memory Lane
Yesterday we met up with Sharrol and Don Garrett and after visiting in the RV we toured their town and had a great time enjoying dinner and memories together. Don and Bill attended elementary school and high school together and they had lots of laughs about growing up together. Don is a retired Presbyterian minister and was going a sermon at a nursing home together - at dinner last night he decided to talk about Bill and what friendship meant. Pretty cool!
This morning we drove the rest of the way to Rochester and we are parked behind the new Alumni Center and have a very private parking lot south of the campus and across the Erie Canal. This is an area that has been connected via a bridge that crosses over the canal and a new expressway I-390. Lots and lots of growth to the medical center and the campus. The U of R is now the largest employer in Rochester!
Lunch today was in the neighborhood where Bill grew up and we ate at a little cafe about 3 blocks from 11 Cayuga Street with Dave Halter. Dave was our Best Man and it was great to visit with him again. Dave had cancer of one of his kidneys about 15 months ago and the next day threw a blood clot and the end result was he has had his left leg amputated above the knee. In spite of the medical problems, Dave was the most positive we have seen him = in many years!
We stopped by Mt. Hope Cemetary on the way back to campus and visited the graves of many of Bill's relatives including his mother, Aunts, and Uncles, and his Miller grandparents. His father is burried in the military section of another cemetary north or town.
This evening we attended a reception and then dinner of the Class of 57 and Bill was amoung a handful of those with full heads of hair! He looked just great amoung all those old men!!! Ed Morrison, one of our ushers, was there and we look forward to being with him tomorrow. Of Bill's class - about one third have died. Of those still living - about half have made the trip.
Bill is watching the Rutgers = South Florida football game - looks like the polls will have some more changes this coming week!
This morning we drove the rest of the way to Rochester and we are parked behind the new Alumni Center and have a very private parking lot south of the campus and across the Erie Canal. This is an area that has been connected via a bridge that crosses over the canal and a new expressway I-390. Lots and lots of growth to the medical center and the campus. The U of R is now the largest employer in Rochester!
Lunch today was in the neighborhood where Bill grew up and we ate at a little cafe about 3 blocks from 11 Cayuga Street with Dave Halter. Dave was our Best Man and it was great to visit with him again. Dave had cancer of one of his kidneys about 15 months ago and the next day threw a blood clot and the end result was he has had his left leg amputated above the knee. In spite of the medical problems, Dave was the most positive we have seen him = in many years!
We stopped by Mt. Hope Cemetary on the way back to campus and visited the graves of many of Bill's relatives including his mother, Aunts, and Uncles, and his Miller grandparents. His father is burried in the military section of another cemetary north or town.
This evening we attended a reception and then dinner of the Class of 57 and Bill was amoung a handful of those with full heads of hair! He looked just great amoung all those old men!!! Ed Morrison, one of our ushers, was there and we look forward to being with him tomorrow. Of Bill's class - about one third have died. Of those still living - about half have made the trip.
Bill is watching the Rutgers = South Florida football game - looks like the polls will have some more changes this coming week!
Wednesday, October 17, 2007
On The Road Again - to Bill's 50th Reunion at the University of Rochester
Good morning!
Yesterday we departed Big Canoe at 7:30 am and headed to Cincinnati, Ohio. We stopped at the FMCA location on Roundbottom Road in Newton - where we had a pediatrician many years ago. We went over to the Mariemont Inn for dinner - which we have done before and enjoy. We had hoped that Larry Ezzel could have joined us but no luck this time.
This morning we started off and have had a light fog which has stopped us from enjoying the brilliance of the tree leaf colors but has not stopped Bill from cruising past the Ohio State University 's Stadium - the Horseshoe. Was fun to see it on the week that they are #1 - wonder how long that will last? Know Jack and Betty hope it will be a short stay there so LSU can regain their ranking.
Today we plan on crossing Ohio and picking up I-90 and ending up east of Buffalo for the night. We will be in a campground near one of Bill's highschool and basketball playing buddies, Don Garrett. We will be with Don and Sharon for the evening.
Yesterday we departed Big Canoe at 7:30 am and headed to Cincinnati, Ohio. We stopped at the FMCA location on Roundbottom Road in Newton - where we had a pediatrician many years ago. We went over to the Mariemont Inn for dinner - which we have done before and enjoy. We had hoped that Larry Ezzel could have joined us but no luck this time.
This morning we started off and have had a light fog which has stopped us from enjoying the brilliance of the tree leaf colors but has not stopped Bill from cruising past the Ohio State University 's Stadium - the Horseshoe. Was fun to see it on the week that they are #1 - wonder how long that will last? Know Jack and Betty hope it will be a short stay there so LSU can regain their ranking.
Today we plan on crossing Ohio and picking up I-90 and ending up east of Buffalo for the night. We will be in a campground near one of Bill's highschool and basketball playing buddies, Don Garrett. We will be with Don and Sharon for the evening.
Monday, October 8, 2007
Home Again!
We have just returned from a trip to Mom's in North Carolina yesterday afternoon where we had a great time and we had a Phase 10 card game going on - of course Mom and Bill allowed me to be the Grand Winner after four evenings of card playing!
We left for Mom's just after a few days at home - when I had planned on updating the blog after editing the pictures. I finally went through the many pictures at Mom's but have decided to give you a link to Rita Ham's blog - they had their computer along and were able to upload the photos and travels as they happened. There are several pictures of Bill in their blog so here is the link to their travels - we did the same things with the big difference the traveling to and from Atlanta while they headed to Yuma, Arizona! http://ritastravels.blogspot.com and she also has her picture scrapbook available by clicking on the front page. To complete the whole trip you need to also click several times on the previous entries since the blog starts at the end and not the beginning!
We left for Mom's just after a few days at home - when I had planned on updating the blog after editing the pictures. I finally went through the many pictures at Mom's but have decided to give you a link to Rita Ham's blog - they had their computer along and were able to upload the photos and travels as they happened. There are several pictures of Bill in their blog so here is the link to their travels - we did the same things with the big difference the traveling to and from Atlanta while they headed to Yuma, Arizona! http://ritastravels.blogspot.com and she also has her picture scrapbook available by clicking on the front page. To complete the whole trip you need to also click several times on the previous entries since the blog starts at the end and not the beginning!
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