Yesterday, Sylvia and I made the 50-minute drive to her dad’s house near St Johns, Michigan.  Her father and brother were waiting for us when we arrived.  A few minutes later, a sister and her husband drove in too.  A few minutes later, the six of us were loaded into two vehicles and we were headed north to Mt Pleasant.  There we met another sister and her husband.  (The only ones missing were the sister that lives in Florida and her husband.)

We had a nice supper at Ruby Tuesday’s.  Then we headed to the park for cake and ice cream.  Fortunately, the rain had ended and the sun was shining–be it ever so weakly.

German chocolate cake is Dad’s favorite

We were nearly three weeks late, and we found the air a bit cooler here toward the end of September.  Dad assured everyone that it was never too late for the family to get together as we were doing at that time.

Butter pecan ice cream was served with the cake.  Sylvia had brought hot tea, lemonade and water.  (I got a cup of coffee to go from Ruby Tuesday.)

We talked at length about late summer’s travel.  One sister told us about her tour of Europe.  The other about their trip to Colorado to visit a son and pregnant (with twins) daughter-in-law.  Sylvia talked a bit about our trip (I’ll tell you more later this week).  Of course, there were pictures to share.

Looking at vacation pictures

We had eaten our cake and ice cream and [mostly] cleared the table.  Sylvia’s sisters, their husbands and father looked at our pictures.  Sylvia, her brother and I were looking at their pictures.  The sun was dropping lower as we looked at pictures and continued to talk.  The park is located on low ground beside a river.  Thanks to the earlier rain and cool temperatures a fog began to form over the park.  You can see a bit of it on the left side of the picture above.  The sun was starting to set, and so we reluctantly parted ways to return home.  It had been a good day.

When we got to Dad’s house, Sylvia and I went in so that I could check some things on his computer.  It took a while, but we got the problems solved.  Then I scanned a photo for him.  After that, I cropped, re-sized and processed it.  The lighting made his face look harsh, which it is not.  So I softened that and increased the color saturation a bit to make him look a bit better.  Then we uploaded the photo to his Facebook profile.  No, really we did.

It was after midnight by the time I got to bed last night.  That’s why I’m a bit late getting this post up today.