Kathy's (Kathleen Mason) trip

As was mentioned in the previous post, Kathy, Trent's mom came to visit us and watch the girls while we were partying in San Diego. We had a great time. We took advantage of any slight amount of sun we saw.

Well, we tried too, but it was kind of painful as seen in the above picture. Sometimes the sun hurts, imagine being shut up in a dark damp closet all winter, and when you finally start to adjust to the terrible darkness a great big blinding light breaks down the door, but only for a moment and then it's gone. So you actually never do adjust to the light. That's my best analogy for describing Western PA.--btw not a posed picture

Oh it's so beautiful, so lush, so warm, so alive, we just had to get out and swing. My best at sarcasm.
Actually give the woods a few months and everything I just said will be a true accurate statement. There is beauty here, just not in the winter or early spring. (I can say that again)


New experience for us-this is the HofbrauhausIt's a huge German restaurant and there are only 2 others in the US the rest in Europe. They brew their own beer-9 huge distilleries. It was great. We had friend pickles, sauerkraut balls. And of of course Brats. If we drank beer I think this restaurant would be even greater to us. We did like it so much that we went twice in a weekend. This below is a picture of the girls playing outside the Hofbrauhaus, they have life sized chess and checker boards-it's quite a nice addition to the South Side.

A huge thank you to Kathy for coming out and helping us. We enjoyed it so much even though we know there were some hard things happening at home for her, we really apprciate her and hope she comes again soon.