From the Lake Conroe Thousand Trails Preserve, Willis, Texas.
Another beautiful day. Our only plan was to have supper with some of the cousins.
Gerri had a conversation with one of her Facebook people who wanted to meet her. Gerri does an egg hunt thing and a scavenger hunt and interacts with a lot of other players. Now I have to tell you I’m very skeptical about meeting people from internet contacts. The rendezvous was arraigned for later in the afternoon at a Gelato shop in Spring. Of course I planned to go with her, who knows when a big ugly guy is going to be needed?
She also had a request from another Facebook contact to take a picture of the church she was married in 57 years ago.
I went out for a few minutes to drop a travel bug at a nearby cache, I found another cache while I was out.
Back to Gerri’s missions:
First the church search. Betty Bond was married 57 years ago in the small Conroe Church of Christ. Gerri found the address o the internet and away we went. When we saw the building we knew it had been remodeled. Make that rebuilt. It is now a very large modern building with acres of parking. We took the requested pictures.
Next we headed to Spring and the Gelato shop to meet Veleen Simms. We arrived first and saw her turn in, she had told Gerri she would be driving a Ford Explorer. After introductions, Veleen brought her daughter and son. Gerri and I both had Gelato and coffee. Not to bad but no better than Blue Bunny. We had a good time talking about common interest including Boy Scouts, geocaching and of course Facebook. I was impressed with her children. They were both congenial, capable of and comfortable with conversations with adults. Gerri has been talking about getting a new phone with internet capabilities, Veleen showed us her i-Pod and some web pages on it. It is a must have now.
After that visit we headed to cousin Lawanna’s house. We decided to go to a Salt Grass, basically a steak house. The party consisted of me, Gerri, my cousins Lawanna, Lael, Mark and Karla and Lawanna’s husband John. We had a good meal. After the meal we sat around for a long time. We talked about things we have seen, methods of travel and somehow got on the topic of things that had scared us as kids, especially movies. The Wolf Man, Frankenstein, Night of the Living Dead, and the like which had seemed so scary at the time but are now campy or hokey.
After dinner we said goodbyes to Lael at the restaurant, she had to head back to Houston. Back at Lawanna’s we said goodbyes t everyone else and headed back to the RV park.
Another good day. Tomorrow is Gerri’s birthday.