Eric Herman - Travelblogue: 2008 Spring/Summer Tour

The girls played on their computers this morning while Roseann and I watched the recent film version of Oliver Twist. It was about as good of a version as they could have crammed into 2 hours, but it couldn't really compare to the BBC miniseries version from 1999 that we've watched twice now. That has to be one of the best drama depictions I've ever seen, of any kind.

We made some pancakes for breakfast and then Roseann pulled Becca's other loose tooth out. Again, it came right out with no pain.

We met up with the rest of the family at church and only realized as we got there that we should have stopped at Brent's house first to drop off Tiggy. I may not have mentioned this before, but with the heat as high as it is, we don't ever leave Tiggy in the bus for too long without turning on the generator to run the AC. Of course, that burns up gas (slower than you might think, but still, who wants to use up extra gas these days?), so whenever we have another option for Tiggy we gladly take advantage of that, and he has been quite comfortable staying in Brent and Cheryl's laundry room while we've been over there. So we went into sacrament meeting, where Crystal and David gave some great talks on faith and gratitude, and then I turned off the generator and Brent and I shuttled Tiggy to the laundry room and came back for the rest of church.

After church, we went to their house again and played together with the girls and talked for a while, then had dinner. After dinner, I played a game of Tier auf Tier with Evee and Daniel. Evee can't really follow game rules too well yet, so we don't really bother with them... but she loves stacking the animals on top of the alligator. Daniel asked me for some guitar tips, as he is planning on getting a guitar soon, so I brought my acoustic in and showed him a few things, then David broke out his harmonica (he's very good at that) and we jammed on some tunes. Roseann brought in Louis (aka Charlie), our dog puppet, and he sang along and kept the girls entertained. That always cracks me up, too, especially when he sings "Under the Bridge" or does a low gravity walk for "Walking on the Moon". We had some yummy German chocolate cake that Cheryl made and then I played two games of Mr. Jack with David. Mr. Jack is a great 2 player deduction game, sort of like chess meets Clue, and though David had never played before, he managed to capture me twice before I was able to escape.

I should mention that a couple days ago David and Crystal's 2 year-old daughter Audrey got some nasty bites on her legs. Everyone's best guess was that they were spider bites, and we've been very worried because they look like they could have been by a brown recluse spider, which is a really nasty one. She's never really acted like they've bothered her, but the thing with a brown recluse bite is that there may be no symptoms for a day or two, and then... I don't even want to say, but they can be very damaging. They took her to the hospital last night and gave her some preventative medicine, just in case, but she seems fine and today the bites looked a lot better, which is very comforting. If they were brown recluse bites, they would likely only get worse and she should have had some more pronounced symptoms by now, so it looks like she'll be alright.

In other health matters, my sore throat is still lingering and now Evee seems to have some kind of whooping cough, so we may have to get her looked at for that.

Becca's 2nd lost tooth...