Mid-West Trip Recap

Here's the last post about our mid-West trip to visit family. The original schedule was (1) spend time in Cincinnati, Ohio with our friends, Bob & Molly, (2) stay with sister, Jane, and brother-in-law, Hack, in Bowling Green, Kentucky for a family reunion, (3) visit with Betty's stepmother, Nita, and sister, Margie, in Franklin, Tennessee, and (4) spend time with our son, Chris, daughter-in-law, Tracy, and newly adopted grandson, Javier, in Mount Vernon, Ohio. As most of you know, the second segment was canceled due to Betty's emergency appendectomy while in Cincinnati.

So, here are pictures in the order they occurred - sorry, no pictures of Betty in the hospital or pictures of her incisions - per her orders. And, we have more pictures of our time with our new grandson, Javier.

Here's a picture of Jingles - Bob and Molly's laid back beagle.

Believe it or not, these figs were a big deal during our visit in Franklin. Betty's sister brought them from the family farm in Alabama from a fig tree that was around when Betty was a little girl.

Even though we had to cancel our Kentucky visit, we did stop to visit our our nephew's wife, April, and their son, Jory, who also live in Bowling Green.

This is a picture of Chris, Betty and Tracy as we watched Javier at his high school football camp.

Javier waiting for his turn to run some plays.

We went to Cleveland for a Puerto Rican festival which was important to Javier as he's from Cleveland and his birth mother was from Puerto Rico. The young girl is Sam, Javier's girlfriend.

Chris and Javier trying to decide whether to buy a souvenir t-shirt.

The last thing we did was attend a church picnic and this is Javier with his grandma.

So, that's the end of our trip and a new post will come tomorrow - not sure what.

Today is July 23 and if today is your Birthday then you share your day with: Daniel Radcliffe (actor - Harry Potter), Monica Lewinsky (friend of President Bill Clinton), Slash (lead guitarist for band, Guns N' Roses), Woody Harrelson (actor - Woody on "Cheers"), Don Imus (frequently fired radio host), Don Drysdale (great pitcher for the Los Angeles Dodgers), and Schotzie Schott (former dog mascot of the Cincinnati Reds).