On Sept. 3 we rented a car and drove down from Raleigh, NC to Savannah, GA. \u00a0Next day we took advantage of Iris’s generous offer and swapped the rental for one of hers. \u00a0We spent a lot of time in Savannah shopping for clothes and small marine items. \u00a0We needed the clothes, and we had waited on the marine items until arriving in the States since I had a large gift certificate for West Marine that was burning a hole in my pocket. \u00a0The certificate was a consequence of being a finalist in the last two photo contests sponsored by Kadey-Krogen Yachts.<\/p>\n
Son Jeff was changing jobs and on the east coast, and daughter Danielle lives in Rincon, a small town north of Savannah, so we decided to all meet in Charleston for a weekend, where we did some touring in the downtown area and visited the Aquarium. \u00a0 As the pictures below show, granddaughter Abbie was considerably less camera shy than granddaughter Kristen.<\/p>\n
Back in Savannah, we had lunch with former Armstrong Atlantic State University Mathematics colleague Dick Munson and his wife Karen, and another lunch with former Computer Science colleague Joy Reed, and yet another lunch with a bunch of Barb’s former colleagues from Southern Company (Melissa Mallard, Chuck, Patrice Cole, Mike McAlister- who hosts our website, David Schiller, Paul Hudson, Barb and Anna nee Sparks). \u00a0Good friends Iris and Mike Dayoub had us over for dinner one night, and invited good friends Steve and Beth Ellis to join us. \u00a0And of course, we got together again with Danielle and her girls several more times before departing from the area.<\/p>\n
On Sept. 12, I caught a flight to Bismarck, ND, and Barb caught a flight to Las Vegas. \u00a0To read about those visits, see our next posts.<\/p>\n\n\t\t