Saturday, February 19, 2011

Day Pass and More...

We are in Savannah once again, and thanks goes out the wonderful LDS Family that have opened their home to us once again.  It is wonderful that we have a roof over our heads and the relief of the potential finical strain that we thought we were going to face.  This time our trip consisted of taking Dean out for the day (Friday).  We realized this trip needed to have some clothes and shoes shopping done to provide Dean with some better fitting clothes.  He is getting tall, and needed new shoes after the ones that we brought for him when we admitted him fell apart about two weeks ago.  We had a wonderful day.  It started with lunch at the Macaroni Grill, Dean is a huge fan of pasta of all kinds.  We all had an Italian Soda, mine was Black Berry, Dean's Peach, and Gerry had Raspberry.  When the waitress brought them to us, we each tried ours, then passed them around so we could each take a drink to taste the others.  They were all really good.  After lunch, we went inside the mall and did some clothes shopping.  Dean got some really cool Iron Man shoes (red and gold for his latest movie).  He also got a really nice Superman sweatshirt, among several other items.  Gerry and I got a few things, as well.  I needed a new shirt, since I got marina sauce on mine during lunch, the white shirt is still being treated as we speak, needless to say, I was not happy about this little mishap.  We had already dropped off our bags, so I had no clean shirt that I could just grab out of the car and change into in the store.  After shopping we headed to Regal Cinemas for a movie.  I Am Number Four just came out yesterday and it is the type of movie that Dean enjoys.  We all enjoyed it very much, and continued to talk about it tonight at our visit over dinner of Chik-Fil-A.  By the by, best strawberry shakes EVER!  We had a very good visit overall and Dean got to make some phone calls to his grandma's and some of his aunties.
I have started a new class, barely passed my last one, but passed none the less.  This new instructor is demanding, she has a doctorates.  But I did well in my first week, just have to work harder than I usually do, which is a lot.  I have my GACE testing this upcoming Wednesday.  I am a bit nervous, but I am getting tutoring for my math portion, and I have actually retained some of what she taught me last time.  I must drive to Albany and Gerry cannot come with me.  He was just made Section SGT of water company, and they are already demanding more of his time than usual.  This of course makes me unhappy, he is a grouch at the end of the day and usually has a migraine because he had to skip lunch to get everything done that they want him to.  My feelings on the matter are if they think it is important enough for them to take time out of their day for lunch, then he should be allowed to eat as well, ridiculous!  No one deserves to be treated this way.  I have a feeling it will be a long year, since he retires next year.  I am looking forward to the light at the end of the tunnel already!