Well we have had a marvelous Christmas Eve and Day. After preparing a full Christmas dinner the weekend before, for many of our church friends, we looked forward to continuing the season's joy with family. Rita and I went away on Christmas Eve to my home town over in Mercer County. We stopped and visited Mom's surviving sister Eva, as she was recovering at Greystone, an assisted living residence in Fredonia, PA. Aunt Eva is 92 and her health has taken a turn downward these last few months. She looked in good spirits when we arrived and we had a wonderful visit with her. We then drove over to Bobby Fisher(Mom's nephew) and had a short visit and left some Christmas gifts. Then another short drive over to see Eddy and Rowena Slater at their farm. We found them doing their chores and feeding the cows but they were expecting us and we had a wonderful time with them. Eddy showed us some pictures of Mom and his relatives on the Slater side and Rowena gave us some treats and provided milk straight from the cow. Rita thought that was real neat to drink that milk and she liked it. Rowena had to show us the room that mom slept in the last time she visited them and we could tell that mom was a special person to them. We heard a few more stories and promised to come back when we could spend some longer moments. We then went to a Christmas Eve party at my cousin David Dale and his wife June and daughter Molly. They had a family get together and invited us earlier and that was a great evening with lots of talk and good eating that June had cooked. Dave and June are planning to come up to Pittsburgh next week to see some of the museums and they promised to stop by. We got home late but the day was a good time and the weather could not have been nicer.
Christmas day we slept in and had a hot breakfast and fried bananas and juice and than enjoyed some of the TV concerts for awhile until evening and than we drove to an organized "Celebration of Lights" at a large 629 acre park called Hartwood after the large Tudor mansion that was built there. It was three miles long and two million lights and Christmas displays that you could hardly believe. I have some pictures below for you to see some of it. It is amazing how the folks back here love their Christmas lights and displays but this was certainly something we had never seen. We are planning next weekend to drive to the West Virgina area where they are supposed to have the one of the largest display of professional lighting in the US. This is 6 miles long and 300 acres at Oglebay, West Virginia. It is called the "Winter Festival of Lights" and you can find it on the internet as well as the one we visited at Hartwood. We will let you know how that all works out. Well anyway we have had a nice Christmas and Rita is back to work tomorrow and I have some things to keep me busy. One of my friends in California wondered if I felt bad sleeping in every day while Rita went to work. Well! let me tell you I am as busy if not busier than before I retired and I take Rita to work and pick her up everyday(in my defense, Ha!). Hope you all have had a marvelous Christmas. We talked to Dan and Judy in New York today and they were in a cab on their way to Christmas dinner. They said they had a nice day of weather yesterday and it sounds like they are enjoying themselves. We miss so much enjoying the time together with our family and friends out West but maybe next year if it works out for our work schedules. We may be a few miles away but you all are in our hearts everyday. HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE and GOD BLESS.
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