Die Buchwalds

Matt & I awoke this morning & embarked on a 13 hour journey following the yellow brick (or at least lined) road to Evans City onward to the ‘Frew and then to Butler to see the Wizard and around in circles for a while and finally back home.
It was exhausting. Highlights of the day:
*A mostly full room of CCD students (we were missing one) sitting quietly & working in their books AND with Bibles… LOOKING STUFF UP!!
*The bulletin insert on voting… more on that later, and possibly on the other blog.
*HAM LOAF
*Seeing the “Stock Boys” wearing GREEN LIPSTICK because they were citizens of the Emerald City.
*Purchasing four chances to win a trip to Disney World to see two of my cousins march in the Magic Kingdom.
*Chicken Strips, Oreo Cookies and Dairy Queen Ice Cream.

And now I must prepare for bed.

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Time to start thinking about CHRISTMAS, folks. Don’t believe me? Ask your favorite retailers… they’re getting started already. I’m sure dear Wally World is starting to make room in the garden department!
Matt has the whole day off today. I wanted to go to the local amusement park (no, not Kennywood, silly people, the LOCAL park, Waldameer) today, but it’s supposed to storm off & on all day and who wants to deal with that while trying to ride roller coasters?
Instead, we’re going to head to the local “big mall” (good ol’ Mill Creek) and get a head start on Christmas. My hope is that most of the last minute back to school purchases have been made & we can shop with limited distractions.
I’m feeling the Catholic Guilt kicking in about shopping on a Sunday. Perhaps today should be the day that dh learns how to pray the Rosary. It’s something he’s going to have to learn sooner or later, especially if he’s going to go on the March with me in January, and I think it would be a wonderful thing to do on “long” car trips. Lately, if it’s not somewhere right in town, every car trip is a “long” car trip. Even on the trip to our parents’ houses, I can get in two sets of mysteries.
Time to get ready for Mass! (pray for me! in our new parish, everyone stands too much & kneels too little… that’s another entry for another day, though)

P.S. You know you’ve moved way to far north when ERIE is the “local” stuff and Pittsburgh is “far away”! I have to admit that Erie is really probably only 20 minutes closer, depending on where you want to go.

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This is a map of states Matt & I have visited together:

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This is a map of all the states we’ve been to, with or without each other:

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The second map is far more impressive.

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