TIME WITH THE GRANDKIDS

 Wednesday night, Ryan and Najla had a business meeting and asked if the kids could come over a spend the night with us. Of course, we said, of course. The last time they did that they were a lot younger. 

We had a good time, but Trevor had a bad cold and wasn't feeling that great. One minute he was feeling great and the next minute, his fever was back and not feeling so good. The kids voted on pizza for dinner. There was a brand new Marcos pizza place right down the road so that's what we had.

After dinner we played a few games of Bingo. We had 3 Bingo games. National Parks Bingo, Bug Bingo and Camping Bingo. We decided on National Parks Bingo. Trevor won 2 games and Pepere (David) won one.

For desert we had Key Lime pie and of course Nickie had to be in the middle of everything. The kids took Nickie for a walk around the campground. The kids look so tall here and Nickie loved it.

Emma slept on the pull-out sofa bed and Trevor slept on the drop-down bed on the dinette. It was either that, or we roved the kitties from their bunk room so the kids could have the bunk beds. In the morning Pepere made sausage and blueberry pancakes. and hot chocolate. Then the kids played games on their tablets for a little while.

After breakfast we took Bentley for a ride around the campground and on the Nature Trail.

They took turns pushing Bentley and traded places halfway. When we got to the pond Trevor was busy picking up snails, finding polliwogs and minnows in the water. 

There was a very large, beautiful butterfly sitting and then flying around the trail in front of us.

For lunch the kids wanted leftover pizza and Ramen noodles.

When Ryan got home from the vet hospital we took them home and Trevor suggested we stop by Barnes and Noble for some new books. 

When we got to their house they introduced us to BOB. Bob is a very old (about 38 years) and large African Saharan tortoise that lives in their back yard.

 Bob is quite a pet.

Bob loves veggies. Emma is feeding him some cucumbers and bell pepper. He used to belong to a lady that kept him in her house, but she couldn't keep him any longer, so Najla brought him home to live with them. They have a metal fence all around their back yard and Bob has been known to push open the gate and go walking down the street. He has even made it over to Ocean Grove RV park next door. Luckily, everyone knows where Bob lives. If you leave the porch door open, he will just walk into the house. Ryan has had a hard time keeping up with all the holes he digs in the backyard that he likes to burrow in to.

 Bob is quite a pet. Ryan and Najla have an inlet of water from the river in their backyard so they see all kinds of wildlife there.

On the way home from Ryan and Najla's we went by the Verizon store to see if they could figure out why I wasn't getting any notifications on my phone when I had a message. They could not figure it out, but we ended up getting new phones. These were 5 years old, so I guess we were due new ones.

On Friday, after making sure all of our data and messages transferred over to the new phones, we took the old ones back for a $500 trade in on each phone. Then we went to Salt Life for a late lunch of New England Clam Chowder and Tacos. It was a good day.