Woke up at 3 am to go to the bathroom and noticed a car parked facing into the driveway across the street with its headlights on. There appeared to be an object sitting on the roof, which on closer inspection later turned out to be a pizza delivery sign. When I came back to bed the car was still there; I didn't see any light on in the house across the street so went to the window for a closer look. About that time another car drove up and a tall young man got out of the passenger side. He went up to the driver side of the first car and appeared to maybe try a key in the door. Then he came around to the trunk and seemed to do the same thing. Then he got back in the second car, I could see the driver was a woman when the dome light came on, and they drove away. I went back to bed. Lying there awake after a few minutes the lighting on the ceiling changed so I had to get up and take another look. A police car had pulled in behind the first car and I could see the pizza delivery sign on its roof. The trunk was up on the police car, another car was parked by the curb with its lights on, and a pickup truck was stopped in the middle of the street. Three uniformed police were beside the pizza car with another man and they were trying to fish something through the driver side window to open a door. After a few minutes they succeeded, the cops drove away and the pizza delivery guy backed out and drove off too. How long the pizza guy's car had been there before I woke up I'll never know. I couldn't go back to sleep because I didn't take my benadryl last night, so now I'm writing about it.
Been awhile since I posted. We've been to Kansas and to Roanoke since then. Gloria, Marcia's best friend from high school, lives in the City of Baldwin City KS and we spent 3 days bothering them. Her husband Lew likes to drive us around to local points of interest and we were well entertained. One day we went up to Atchison, Kansas and went through Amelia Earhart's birthplace which was the home of her grandparents. It sits high on a hill overlooking the Missouri river and it was a warm, sunny spring day (Amelia Earhart Birthplace Museum ). Another day we drove over to Weston, Missouri which also borders the river and is the home of the McCormick Distilling Co., Inc. Weston is across the river from Leavenworth, KS and the founder of the distillery also developed the Pony Express, so there is a lot of history associated with this area. The town has several interesting shops along its main street including antique stores which we like to browse. We had a very pleasant visit with Gloria and Lew.
We also had a wonderful time in Roanoke. We stripped the kitchen wallpaper and painted the walls and cabinets, and spent some quality time with grandson Nathan and his parents. I put myself to sleep on the train ride to and from by listening to my iPod Nano, and always enjoy the scenery along the route through West Virginia.
Tomorrow, April 12, is Easter. It is also the day my mother was born in 1913 and the day Franklin Roosevelt died in 1945, and is the day on which the formal surrender ceremony of Lee's army took place at Appomattox in 1865. He and Grant had met and agreed to terms on the 9th.
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