Happy Anniversary! 26 years with my beautiful wife!<\/p>\n
The two of us spent the day in Ithaca, NY. Unfortunately, it was raining all day, sometimes hard, but that didn\u2019t deter us. We ate at the Ale House for lunch, the same wonderful place we ate at the last time we were here. We then went to the Johnson Museum of Art on the Cornell campus. The rain was quite heavy at this point. We ran into the place and the guy at the front told us that two of the four floors were under construction and were closed. The only open floors were the Asian collection and the European collection. The best parts of the museum though were the closed floors (the American collection & Modern collection). There was only one \u201cname\u201d piece of art that we could see, a Cranach painting.<\/p>\n
When we got out of the museum, we drove all over the place. The reason for this was that there were many construction projects going on. It was so hard to get near the college campus. We got lost a lot. We did eventually find the campus and then a parking space. We bought college shirts, Starbucks coffee, and then went to the Earth Science Museum just outside of town. It was small but very nice. We learned about glaciers, stratification and paleontology. In the evening, we had strawberry shortcake with ice cream to celebrate our anniversary.<\/p>\n
We also heard from our son! He\u2019s now at his new duty station and he loves it. Funny story though, the person who was supposed to pick him up at the airport thought his flight arrived at 9:30PM, not AM, and she had also turned her cell phone off. Jeffrey took a cab to a mall and hung out until the gal got the message and sent someone to pick him out, six hours later. When he got to his new site, the person with his apartment keys wasn\u2019t around, so they put him in a hotel for the night. The next day, the finance folks wouldn\u2019t reimburse Jeffrey for his hotel stay, but eventually found a loophole \u2013 his shop (who told him to go to the hotel in the first place) could pay him back. Now that he\u2019s in his place, he\u2019s loving it. His two roommates are on deployment so Jeffrey is all alone. He will now get qualified in three different shops: Radar, \u201cSecret Stuff,\u201d and \u201cNot Secret Stuff.\u201d He says he has plenty of free time to take college classes, so that\u2019s what he\u2019s going to do. If he can get his Bachelors, he\u2019ll try to become an officer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Happy Anniversary! 26 years with my beautiful wife! The two of us spent the day in Ithaca, NY. Unfortunately, it was raining all day, sometimes hard, but that didn\u2019t deter us. We ate at the Ale House for lunch, the … Continue reading