Saturday, November 23rd: I attended the funeral for a member of our ward (and sang a song in the choir). It was a really nice funeral, with lots of beautiful music. The man who passed away was a great man, and it's always inspiring to hear about the life of a great person. I stayed after the funeral to help set up everything for a luncheon for the family. Those things took up most of my day. Frank was busy doing a lot of work for clients most of the day.
Sunday, November 24th: I got released as a Primary teacher, so I'm back down to two callings. There was a special RS meeting, so a bunch of the men taught Primary so that all the Primary teachers could go to that. After church I worked on music calling stuff and had another song practice for the women's group Christmas song. Seth wanted to make rice crispy treats, so we made those too.
Monday, November 25th and Tuesday, November 26th: these two days were pretty busy because I was trying to get all the usual chores done, plus get ready for our trip to NC. I had lots of extra errands to run. I also sent Thanksgiving cards to all the sisters I minister to, and took treats to one of them. Tuesday was Tanner's birthday and we got to talk to him for a little while. Darlee sent me a photo in the morning of Tanner sitting on their couch with a bunch of presents and a birthday banner on the wall behind him. Tanner later sent me a photo of him with the beautiful cake that Darlee made for him. So even though we are sorry we didn't get to spend the day with him, we felt good knowing that he was well taken care of on his birthday! (Way to go, Darlee!) The part Frank ordered for the heater came on Monday, which was surprising because we weren't expecting it until the end of the week. He installed it...and we still had the same problem. This led us to believe that the problem wasn't the control panel at all, but must be something else. Frank decided to try cleaning the flame sensor and after he did that the heater worked perfectly! So who knows why the repairman told us the control panel wasn't working. I'm just glad we didn't buy a whole new system! It's a blessing that Frank is so handy with things like that.
Wednesday, November 27th: We got up and got on the road before 8:00, which was great. We were fortunate that the weather was cloudy but not raining--we only got a little bit of rain at one point--and the temperatures were in the 50's, so it was actually a pretty pleasant day for traveling. We decided to take Snickers with us on this trip and since he is usually very anxious when we travel in the car, we got some calming medicine from the vet to give to him. It definitely didn't make him sleepy (if anything, he seemed more alert than usual) but he was relatively relaxed--for him--so I guess the medicine did its job. There was, of course, a lot of traffic. We made fairly good time most of the day but a few accidents slowed us down and then we hit rush hour traffic in Asheville. Those slow downs, along with a few extra stops for the dog, meant we didn't arrive at our air b&b until about 6:00. (We have sometimes made the trip in as little as 8 hours.) After getting our belongings settled, we went to Frank's parents' house to visit for a little while and then Frank & I went shopping for a few groceries before we turned in for the night.
Thursday, November 28th: Happy Thanksgiving! We made banana pudding, chocolate pudding, and a relish tray in the morning. We had Thanksgiving dinner at the church with Frank's extended family, several of their friends, and the missionaries who are serving in Brevard. There was SO MUCH FOOD!! We spent the day eating and playing games. It was nice. We spent the evening relaxing at our place. I did a lot of reading--it's my turn to pick the book for book chat next time, so I decided to read one of the books that I'm considering. I don't remember where I heard about it now, but it sounded interesting so I got a copy of it from the library right before we left for our trip. I read a little in the car, a little more during the day on Thursday, and then a lot that evening. Snickers was being kind of a pill and he didn't want to go to sleep so I stayed up late with him until he settled down. Since the book was getting pretty interesting by then, that wasn't such a hardship for me! The book is called Searching for Sylvie Lee.
Playing games and making puzzles:
Friday, November 29th: This morning I finished up the book I was reading, and it was pretty good. We went for a drive up into Pisgah National Forest and also onto the Blue Ridge Parkway. It was in the 50s again, so fairly pleasant. The scenic views are not as spectacular right now as they would be in spring, summer, or fall, but they are still pretty nice.
Pisgah Forest:
Blue Ridge Parkway:
Looking Glass Falls:
We really enjoyed getting out and getting some fresh air, and bonus--we saw license plates from both Utah and Alaska on our drive today. (We still have 13 state license plates left to find, though.) Afterwards, we spent some time visiting with Frank's parents at their house and then we came back to our place to lie down for a little while before going to see Frozen II. The movie theater here in this small town is pretty small and you can't buy tickets until 30 minutes before the show starts but we had no trouble getting tickets and we also got great seats. The theater was only about 3 blocks from where we are staying, so we walked to the theater and back:
We all enjoyed the movie. I think my favorite part was when Kristoff sang his 80's spoof song "Lost in the Woods". All of the adults in the theater where laughing hysterically while Seth kept saying "What's so funny??" If you didn't live through the 80's, the humor was totally lost on you! Anyway, it was a pretty good movie overall. Snickers was pretty happy to see us when we got back from the movie because that's the only time we left him here the whole trip (we even took him to the church with us.) After the movie, we went back to the church to eat more Thanksgiving leftovers and to play more games and visit some more. Then we said our goodbyes and came back to our place. It's been a nice visit. We are driving back home tomorrow.
Overall, we have enjoyed our little "apartment" where we've been staying. We have 2 bedrooms, a bathroom, a living room, kitchen, and laundry and it cost less than a hotel room would have. We are on the bottom floor of a little two story house. It's a cute little place. We haven't loved the shower (water pressure or water temperature) but our main complaint is the upstairs neighbor, who is extremely quiet during the day but seems to stay up all night, walking around and moving things around and dropping things. Like literally--it sounds like she's moving furniture around up there or something! I woke up several times the first night we were here and thought I heard a lot of movement going on up there but in the morning I figured it all probably happened within the first hour or so after I fell asleep. But then last night I was up until midnight and the entire time I could hear tons of noise going on up there. Then I woke up again around 3:00 am and I could still hear noise (Frank said he heard it around that time too.) Now it is nearly 11:00 pm and I'm hearing lots of walking around again (although it doesn't sound like there is any furniture moving, at least). So strange! It's mostly been a good place to stay, though, and I think we will stay here again on future visits, if possible.
(This note was on the refrigerator when we arrived.)
I've probably forgotten a lot of stuff, but that's all I can think of for now. We hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving!!
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