The drive along the river to get to Bert’s was so pretty.  The city has a number of bridges that cross the river and are all lighted, neat sight.  There are some unbelievable homes on the bluff overlooking the river.  It would be interesting to know the history of some of them.  One had a wrap around porch that was probably 15 feet deep and wrapped all the way around the front of the house.  They had it all lighted for Christmas, super cool.

There was another house that is truly an "estate" with the big gates for entry and bigger than the Salisbury House!  It was huge and had lights showing it off.  Stunning.

Bert’s house is in a nice residential area that she says is really safe.  It isn’t very big, but sure works for her.  John is helping her with lots of little projects to get it the way she wants it.  It’s very comfortable, although really small.  The bedrooms are probably 8×9 and there are three of them.  The bathroom is maybe the size of ours upstairs, certainly not any larger.

She had been to Wisconsin and brought back some wine from a vineyard there.  It was, without a doubt, the best I have ever had.  Smooth, semi-sweet, mild and very drinkable.  Bert and I killed the bottle!!

We enjoyed the play, lots of music and a cute story.  I kept thinking that Shay should see it.  I’m not sure that her drama club could put it on because of all the singing, but that’s what I was thinking.  She would love it.  There was one actress that looked so much like Heidi that it was spooky!  I think Heidi should go into the arts and act or at least dance LOL.

We took our car since I didn’t want to ride that far in the POS that we rented!  Don’t buy a Grand Prix!!  It rides like a lumber wagon.  Has wonderful "bells and whistles" but that doesn’t cut it if the ride is awful….and it is!!  I’m taking one of our cars to town tomorrow and Greg is driving the POS.  He said it isn’t as bad when you are driving.

The repair man called for Greg Friday.  Greg was putting up the decorations on the stairwell so I talked to him.  He wasn’t thrilled to talk to me, he preferred Greg, but did tell me the car is done.  He ended up putting a rack in, said ours was the problem and was in awful shape.  He is only charging us the cost of the rack, no labor, since he said he should have realized what the problem was before, so it isn’t going to be bad at all.  Particularly when you take out the cost of the rental which he is paying for….good for us.

Time to get ready for church.