Back in DC

Hello,

Before I go back to DC, I have to correct a name in my last missive. It is Joel Hoger rather than Josh. Can you imagine that I might forget a name?
My first Saturday in DC Sarah and I headed out for a tour of the White House. Stephen kindly gave up his spot to me. It was quite interesting to see some of the rooms that were slightly familiar from publications. The guide’s talk was informative. For instance he said that Taft was the heaviest president at 300 plus pounds. When we visited Belle Meade Plantation they told us that they had invented a forerunner of the modern shower because Taft was to visit and he had a history of getting stuck in bathtubs. The shower was three or four upright pipes with two or three pipes that circles around on those supports. The pipes had holes in them so water would spray out. It seems that necessity is the mother of invention. Taft liked it so well that he had one made for the White House, but this was not mentioned in our tour. Is my memory correct?

But what is the correct pronunciation of library? The guide kept saying the berry sound on the end. Two weeks ago at Luther College someone on the phone also said that.

Following the tour we went to the new house where Stephen and Lexi was in the middle of the furniture and boxes that was coming off the truck which had come from Seattle, Stephen had things stored at his parent’s house, and Salt Lake, where they had stored things when they first went to Geneva. This looked like a big truck, but Miriam said when the truck was at her house it was a bigger one. The movers told her they would change trucks outside of Washington because they could not take that large truck into the city. Leroy who at one time worked for a moving company said, “That is a terrible job. I have done that in the past.” They were fortunate because everything was checked off by the time the movers were done.

Paula