Road Trip Mania Week 2

Wow. David and Timothy are both asleep, and our hosts are at a wedding rehearsal until late this evening, so I'm finally--thanks to DSL--able to sit down and blog about our trip thus far.

Week One Highlights

• Introducing David to Good Will and Wal-Mart
• Meeting Ethan Gertz, our 2nd-youngest nephew
• Driving along a bit of the Blue Ridge Parkway with my sister and her family
• Getting lost near Waxhaw, North Carolina
• Seeing friends Alissa, Hannah, and Josh, and receiving a beautiful homemade quilt Hannah made for Timothy!
• Wading in a Georgia lake with my aunt Brenda, uncle John, and cousins Alyssa and Kelly
• Eating barbecue with my grandmother in Alabama and hearing about her youth
• Having African food with Laura, my best friend from high school, and touring her ambulance
• Listening to Death in the Clouds by Agatha Christie.

Week Two Highlights

• Attending a PCA church in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, and having a cookout with a Nigerian family afterward
• Paying less than $4 a gallon on gas
• Visiting with my college mom, Pam, and her husband Don
• Spending time walking around downtown Wheaton with our friend Jonathan, and especially going to the Pocorn Shop
• Seeing my grandparents, aunt & uncles, great aunts and uncle, dad's cousins, and the cat Domino
• Eating fish tacos
• Setting foot in the Pacific
• Sorting out my bank issues--thank God!!

I know I've left a lot out, but those are some of our highlights. We're enjoying the San Diego dry heat.

Oh, Timothy is awake, so that's all, folks!