There's No Place Like Home

We recently made a trip east to Pa. and Ohio. We spent time with Arlene, visited Gram in Laurel Crest, and also spent time with Allison, John, Joe and Ben. Joe and Ben are so cute and are neat kids and we learned a lot of new info about fire trucks from Joe. The weather was nice enough one day to take a hike in Stackhouse Park which is very close to Arlene's house in Johnstown,Pa. It was great being able to see everyone.

From there we went to Pittsburgh and Duquesne's homecoming. Arn's frat (ZBT) put together a reunion and quite a few guys showed up. He hadn't seen some of them in over 35 years. They all relived there college days trying to remember the names of their favorite bars and such. Most of the bars were no longer standing and the frat house is no longer there. Everyone had a good time and vow to get together again in the next few years. Arn was voted 'guy who was most like he was in college'. After the reunion we stopped by Nick and Leann's house, spent the night, and finally met Noah. Noah is very cute too and it was great to get to know him.


Then on to Ohio...we did get to see lots of fall colors but I don't think they were at their peak. We spent a few nights with my mom and of course we hit New Reigel Ribs one night and brought home a few orders on the plane. We helped Mom with lots of projects and did some organizing with her. We also enjoyed the food she always makes and bakes. On the way back to Pittsburgh we stopped in Canton and saw CJ and Sherry who we haven't seen in years. We even went to the Geisen Haus (our first date)with the Dougans and Greg (also haven't seen him in years). It was nice to reconnnect with everybody. We returned to a cold snap and it was really cold when we got back to Colorado (18 degrees). The trees and everything were all frosty but things have warmed up and Arn golfed 3 days this past week.