Traveling to DC

Hello,

Our trip out of town was uneventful except that in the Cedar Rapids airport Leroy’s bag set off an alarm. Before that we had moved along speedily because we were expedited so we did not have to remove shoes or coats. They did a more serious search of Leroy’s bag and found the little bag of rocks and a plastic frog that one granddaughter had left at our house. The TSA guy just laughed about it and let it pass. We thought it most likely belonged to the youngest, but she had no memory of it, however she was happy to put the rocks outside around a tree. I am not sure what happened to the frog.

Sarah picked us up at the airport in DC. For reasons that none of us could figure out she sat in traffic, just at the airport about half a mile from us, for forty minutes. Luckily it was quite nice in DC for all of us arrivals waiting for that pick up service. No one had a clue what was causing the delay. Thankful for cell phones so we could discuss the issue and everyone knew where their important people were. We got there at 10:00pm EST. That Leroy immediately started thinking about how late it was and he needed to go to bed even though his body clock would have said it was 9:00.

We were both quite astonished at the flowers that were still blooming. Some trees had not dropped their leaves. We did not need our hats or gloves. It is definitely a warmer place. It was also much more humid than here. My hair curled quite nicely. I started thinking about the clothes I had brought and wishing I had brought some lighter things. But then a bit later it cooled off so my warmer clothes felt just right.

Paula