We're Home!

(We came home Monday, but I am just posting Saturday.)

Monday, March 2.
Our flight coming home from Philadelphia was scheduled for 6:30 p.m, but was delayed because of a snow storm that closed schools there. We ended up leaving about 8:40 p.m. and landing in Detroit about 10:30 p.m. Everything went fine, except that our luggage did not appear. No one's from our plane did. (We figured they were busy with other delayed flights.) We waited until around midnight. Eventually, they said we could wait "20 minutes longer" or have it delivered the next day. James had already been waiting a long time to bring us home, so we came home, and the luggage was delivered to our house the next day. Ta-daaa! Everything worked out!


Tuesday
The next morning, in the daylight, I noticed that most of the snow had melted from our yard!

I will back up to tell about our Philadelphia trip.

We flew there Thursday night (Feb. 26) and had a good visit with Carrie.Carrie's kitchen, with Carrie mixing up a delicious salad dressing!

Carrie wishing me a wonderful birthday!

(Note family photos on her living room wall, on viewer's right.)

We were glad to be warmed up in Florida. And now we were in for some northern weather reality. We had cold and snow, but it was such fun to be with Carrie.Carrie shoveling snow on her porch and the steps from her upstairs apartment.

We do not go out until she is done.

Saturday, we went to the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and concentrated on the Henri Matisse exhibit, where I enjoyed the colors and reminders of warmth! Then we shopped and cooked together and celebrated my birthday!

And after the snow, we walked along the Manayunk towpath by the canal.

(Manayunk is an area of Philadelphia.)John by a beautiful Manayunk mosaic.

Laura by the canal, watching geese and appreciating the graceful arches of the bridge.

Cozying up for our photo!

(Note the embroidered cat quilt made by Grandma Hall on Carrie's right.)

My birthday was actually Monday, March 2, the day we flew home. I am now gladly 54!