New Bern, NC and Myrtle Beach, SC

We left ILC on Saturday, September 22 and drove southeast to New Bern, North Carolina.  We checked into a timeshare there and actually spent most of the week relaxing in the unit.  We walked some of the mornings, worked on our farms on Facebook, read books and played lots of Ticket to Ride.

We sat out here to play Ticket to Ride.

  We did drive to Morehead City one day to eat lunch at The Sanitary, a special seafood restaurant that we like.  It was a great week.

We then continued on down the coast to the Marriott timeshare in Myrtle Beach.

  We stopped at Moore’s Creek National Battlefield on the way.  It was a revolutionary site and it was very interesting.

Coleen’s sister Mavis and her husband DeVon joined us for the week.  We took a day trip north and visited the Oak Island Lighthouse in North Carolina. 

  We ate a delicious lunch in Southport at Yacht Basin Eatery.  We drove into Wilmington but got interrupted by rain.  It was cloudy and partially rainy all day but we did enjoy what we were able to see.  Another day we went into Charleston.  We toured Fort Moultrie,

 Fort Sumter

 and the Sullivan Island Lighthouse. 

  We played ticket to ride most evenings, sometimes the US version and sometimes the European version.  It was wonderful to spend the week together.

Summer and Early Fall 2012

June was spent doing some sewing of my own, helping two 4-H girls with their clothing project and teaching the missions section of VBS at church.  We got to go to a Ft Wayne Tincaps game on the bus from Heritage Pointe.  The strange wind and rain storm came through our area on June 29.  We were out of electricity for a few hours and there were many, many trees that came down.  I made a set of six placemats from the pattern I got at Scrappy Club and a special tea towel for the month of June.

We took a trip to the Dayton area to visit Coleen's sister and family. 

Uncle Bob & Kai

Melissa

 

Eden

Alana

 

Michael & Tina

Mavis and the sewing project.

Our first week in July was spent cleaning the house and packing.  We spent Saturday, July 7 at Coleen’s brother’s house in Indy to celebrate Chris’s college graduation.  We had a great visit.  Deb had driven up so she and my dad both went with us. 

We left home on July 9 and drove to Rockville, Virginia to spend 12 weeks at ILC as volunteers.  It was a great time but very busy.  We now have added more folks to our prayer list as they travel around the world to spread the good news of Jesus Christ. 

Our home for 12 weeks - Quad 27 - D

 

Coleen helped with the babies again and we both worked in the quilt quad.  There were over 40 different people who made a total of about 65 projects.  Bob & I made eleven quilt tops to take home to Heritage Pointe. 

  Then we made four quilts to be sold at ILC and I made a Christmas table runner.  I did all of the quilting on the four. 

  I also made a quilt for our bed at ILC, some coasters (which had been cut out for over 10 years) and a bag for Debbie Pillow. 

We were supposed to go to Pennsylvania for Labor Day but Bob was quite sick with a cold and then the flu so we didn’t go.  We did take a day trip to Annapolis to visit with Phil Williams and he took us on a tour of the Naval Academy. 

  We went with the entire group on the bus trip to D.C. where we visited 2 more national parks, Frederick Douglass National Historic Site

 and the Old Post Office Pavilion.

Another day trip took us to Petersburg where we went to Petersburg National Battlefield and also the Old Blanford Church which has one of the largest collections of Tiffany glass windows in existance.