Last night we got to go on a very delightful walk around the neighbourhood with Ruth. We saw lots of fireflies, spotted a cardinal flying into a nearby tree, as well as a bat darting back and forth across the street catching flies.
This morning, we got up at a decent hour, before getting ourselves ready and eating breakfast. Ruth had been up pretty early, chopping up vegetables for the "Chow Mein Casserole" she was making for lunch.
We spent the morning sitting and reading, as well as taking a short stroll down the street to the Save-A-Lot, similar to that of Save on Foods, to pick up a few things, before heading back for lunch.
The weather was just perfect today. It was supposed to reach about 32 degrees out, but with a nice breeze, it felt more like 26 degrees, very nice.
Ruth's son Greg, joined us for lunch. He's a really nice man. He and his family run a business for driving Amish to and from the places they need to go to. They call it doing an Amish run to help out when it is too hot or too far for the horses to go. His son Robert, is a little younger than Kim and is also doing computer science with an interest in video games and animation. We sat and had a good conversation with Greg, then we all sat down to eat. While having our visit, a small raccoon also went running through Ruth's backyard. We hadn't seen any raccoon's like this at home. He was more of a brown colour, and slimmer than the ones we have back in B.C.
Another thing about this trip is Kim has been collecting quarters, as they have a special series that each quarter represents one of the 50 states. Every time this is mentioned, one of her step uncles pulls out his change for Kim to go through. Very generous guys :)
After Greg had left, we helped Ruth clean up then we all had a bit of a nap. With the weather being so warm, and with keeping ourselves busy, we've all gotten tired very easily these past few days.
while doing our clean up, we noticed a beautiful large dog sitting on the lawn across the street. Ruth was telling us, that it is an Akita, but he has no home. He wanders around the complex, and goes to sleep in the cornfield across the street every night. He seems to be very afraid of people, as when cars or people go by, he starts to bolt in the opposite direction. The other day when we had gone to Daus Essenhaus, we had brought back left overs which Ruth decided to share with the pooch.
We walked across the street, leaving the container of roast beef and stuffing as well as a bucket full of water. He watched us warily from a distance. When we started to walk away he started to edge a little closer. By the time we had gotten back in the house, he happily came and chowed down. He finished all the food, ate the styrofoam container it was in, drank all the water and attempted to devour the bucket as well. By the time we had recovered the containers, half the styrofoam was gone, the bucket was all holey, and the handle was missing. He obviously had been hungry, but enjoyed himself.
Later on in the afternoon, around 4, Ruth's daughter Lane came over for a visit. She lives in Fort Wayne about 50 miles outside of Goshen. She comes to visit Ruth every sunday, and so it was really nice to be here to get to meet her. Lane has two little dogs that she absolutely adores and talks about them a lot. She has a Schnoodle named Douglas, and a little tiny black Chihuahua named Izzy. She was telling us about taking the two to puppy training school, where in one lesson there was a Jack Russell Terrior who was determined to catch Izzy, and when he had the chance managed to nip her in the bum. Next lesson they went, there was a German Shepard who is afraid of everything, Douglas had gone over to make a new friend out of the dog and it's owner, which led to him getting nipped in the bum too. Lane chuckled about it, but said they won't be going to back for more lessons at the moment.
By the evening all of us headed over to Laurel and Paul's house to visit one last time. They have a fabulous house on a good size bit of land a few miles away from where Ruth lives. We all got inside, grabbed a cool glass of ice water and sat in their front room having a chat about what we had all been up to, and admiring their beautiful backyard. Their house is fantastic, both of them have exquisite taste, and have fully decorated their home. Looks like a professional could have done it.
Lane had to leave a little early as she had a long drive home, so we took some family pictures before all heading out. Laurel and Paul were more than kind to the two of us, they gave us some pictures that they had taken the day before when we all went out, as well as giving the both of us a beautiful gift. Mauvereen was given a beautiful turquoise necklace, as she had been telling Laurel how much she wanted a Turquoise necklace but was never able to find one. And they gave Kim a gorgeous scarf of all different colours, and a silver and turquoise bracelet. So kind of them, this was totally unexpected.
On the way back, we took a final stop at the local walmart to stock up on water, and Kim got lucky finding a few boxes of "Trix" cereal to bring home. Her favourite, and it's no longer sold in Canada.
Now we are back at Ruth's and after having a lovely dinner, we're just sitting enjoying the night sounds and cool air before heading to an early bed time.
Will be an early morning tomorrow, and heading out the door, back on the road to home. Will stop at the KOA in Hixton/Alma Wisconsin tomorrow night. Update again then :)
Thank you to all our family in Goshen for making our visit so wonderful. Thanks to everyone who has been following our trip and all our stories thus far :)
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