Leaving Home

What a day!  It's time to head to Honduras!!!  I was a "little" behind in my preparations (more so than other years), so Bob came to my rescue by running a bunch of errands around the Fox Valley for me.  One of these errands consisted of sending this box of donations off to Dr. Don Reynolds who is in charge of sending the container shipments down to Honduras.  I would like to express a HUGE thank-you to Val Guy and to those in my summer school classes for donating material for their sewing room and other much needed items for the children at Emmanuel.

While Bob and Alina were running errands, I packed my suitcase.  We had packed Alina's clothes the day before.  When they returned, Alina & I finished with the packing while Bob took care of a few other things (getting songs on an MP3 for me, getting Jim & Jeanne's address entered into our GPS, etc).  Finally it was time to go!  We dropped Noah off at Mom & Dad's house so that he could get to his baseball game that evening and took off for Illinois just before 1:00.

When we arrived in Wheaton, we began looking for restaurants along the way to Jim & Jeanne's that would be a nice place to take them to supper - in appreciation for allowing Alina & I to spend the night and then their willingness to take us to the airport in the morning.  Bob saw a restaurant called the 7 Dwarfs and mentioned it...wouldn't you know it was the restaurant that Jim & Jeanne had in mind to go to when we arrived?  Before heading to the restaurant, they showed us their garden and landscaping out back (we were amazed!).  The restaurant was nice and had very delicious food!  I loved the wall mural as well as all of the different paintings depicting the story of Snow White & the 7 Dwarfs.  After supper, Bob took off for home (what a LONG ride for him to drive us down, eat and then head back!) and Alina & I headed back to Jim & Jeanne's where we chatted for a bit before finalizing plans for the morning and then headed to bed.