Beck and I recently took a little time off from work to do a bit of family and friend visiting down south. We did not have much time in any one spot so sorry to all the good folks we missed along the way..... next time hopefully.
We bounced around from Washington state to Washington D.C. then down to North Carolina and back. Talk about head spinning visits, we managed to fit allot in in a short time. We were in the small town of Ronoke Rapids, N.C. where my Grandparents live, for New Year's eve. My maternal Grandmother (Gran) is a bit of a social butterfly and asked if we would accompany her to a dance with live music at the local American Legion to bring in the new year. It sounded like fun and something we would not normally do on our own volition so we went. There was allot of dancing to a cover band playing everything from Patsy Cline to Rockabilly. I had a chance to dance with Gran and Becky had the chance to dance with a man three times her age and half her height, and of course we danced together the rest of the time. Out of all the places we've been on New Year's eve, ringing in 2010 will go down in our memory banks as a notable one. My Dad and Agnes were in town so they joined us for the festivities.
After N.C. we had one full day in D.C. before heading back to the sub-Arctic. We had hoped to have lunch with Barack and Michelle but they were busy so we took a tour of the museums instead. To save you some time reading I'll just hit the D.C. highlights: 1)letting Becky pilot the F-16 flight simulator at the Air and Space Museum (spent much of the time upside down), 2)the Holocaust museum was highly emotional and exceptionally well designed... a must see if you can only go to one museum and 3)riding the Metro everywhere and watching people get transported through tunnels underneath their city like mole rats. We are back home now. The days are getting longer and the temperatures are comfortable above normal.