We drove to Greenwood, Indiana on New Year's Eve to spend a few days with Julina and Alex and Imogene. Shiloh and Stratton were with their mom the whole time so we didn't see them at all.
Julina had the three of us pose in front of Bob Smith's photo (he passed in 2009) to get a picture of the four of us. It turned out kind of nice and somewhat realistic, I think (if you don't consider that one of us is in black and white).
We went to see "Into The Woods" on New Year's Day. Both Steve and I loved it, even though they did some tinkering with the story line.
Julina had to work in southern Indiana on Friday so Steve and I decided to drive to Louisville to attend the temple. We linked up with Juli early in the afternoon and, after a Culver's snack, she and I sent Steve back to Greenwood to talk trains with Alex while we wandered around the cute town of Columbus (located about 40 miles south of Greenwood).
We visited a couple of yarn shops and I am ready to get back into actual knitting (as opposed to the baby hats of which I have been doing so many). Next we visited an ice cream parlor that has been around for over a hundred years. It had lots of antique soda fountains on display as well as mechanical music devices like the one shown below. In the center is a banjo with a wooden keyboards along the neck. A drum in the upper left. For a quarter, you got to hear one of about ten different tunes. It was really cool.
Then, we went across the street to take a look at their city center. It has a large indoor atrium-type area which includes a huge kid play area (like the ones at McDonalds, only on steriods) and a place for musical performances. Behind Julina is a huge statue / Rube Goldberg device (that wasn't working at the time). What a nice town.
Saturday, we went to the state fairgrounds to a model train show. Wow! Steve and Alex were in heaven. Lots and lots of vendors. Lots and lots of model train displays. Every photo I took with a moving train was blurry so I will show you one with out a train but still pretty amazing. Steve left with supplies and ideas for his own train display.
Imogene is doing OK. Some days, she doesn't feel very well. Other days she has enough energy to work on her cards.
We attended church Sunday morning and left early afternoon. We stopped at Emily and Joe's house for dinner and we were back in Columbia by around 8:00 pm.
I finished up my many winter baby hats with these little snowmen. and now, I am taking a small hiatus from baby hats to knit (as mentioned earlier). I have some real wool yarn and I want to try my hand at felting.
This past week has been bitterly cold - we had two late-start days as a result - and it seemed like all I did was catch up from being gone.
I had an informational meeting Thursday night for students interested in going to Austria and Germany over spring break 2016. The trip will include orchestra students from all three high schools and, in spite of the cold, there were 20 interested students. A second meeting will be this coming Tuesday. Hopefully, out of the two nights, the minimum number of 24 students will be met.
On Saturday, Steve and I finally saw the last Hobbit movie. I liked it but more than once, I leaned over to Steve to say "this part is not in the book". We both agreed that Peter Jackson should now stop making epic movies - that he has reached his pinnacle in that department. It seems like there is an "one-up-manship" mindset among directors of epic films and the often the results are that the special effects get in the way of the story. Steve and I both feel a need for more movies like "100 Step Journey". (but I confess I am looking forward to "Jupiter Ascending")
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