My weekend

My weekend was supposed to be really really packed. It was just really packed. Friday night, Steve and I went to an Eagle Court of Honor for a young man in the troop, one of the last of those scouts who were active when Scott and Eric were working on their Eagle projects. It was very lightly attended, I don't think it was a reflection on the young man but rather the busyness of the day. I hope so anyway.

After the COH we went over to Steve's dad's. Dad C. is still pretty confused about the whole digital switch thing. He has DirecTV, but no local channels, so we got him a converter box. Steve hooked it up and showed Dad how to use it. Yesterday, Dad didn't watch any TV because he said it wasn't working. He had just forgotten which buttons to push when and which remote to use. Thankfully, this is only a temporary situation as we've arranged for him to switch to DISH, with local channels included.

On Saturday, we were supposed to ride with the Gold Wing group to the Gizzard Festival in Potterville. Rain decided otherwise for us. Not sure if the group still went after all, but we didn't really want to ride in rain. So we stayed home and got some things done.

VBS set up (VBS is this coming week in the evenings) was at 8 p.m. on Saturday. Why so late? Well, there was a wedding on Saturday at the church. Now why the bride and groom didn't want a crocodile/swamp theme is beyond comprehension. Isn't that every bride's dream?
Anyway, brought all the stuff I'd prepared for the preschoolers into the church, then helped create a swamp outside the sanctuary. Must have been interesting coming into church this morning for those unaware...

Today the plan was to go with the BMW group to the vintage motorcycle show at the Gilmore car museum. After much prayerful consideration, I decided to go with Steve rather than go to church this morning. I'll be spending much more time at church this week than usual, and thought this would help ease that in Steve's mind anyway. The breakfast meeting before the ride went pretty well, other than it being out in the main part of the restaurant so the noise level was pretty high. Turns out one of the members and I know each other from geocaching! It's a small world, isn't it? Anyway, the ride went well. We made a rest stop in Lowell, of all places - at 11:30 a.m. I probably could have brought my riding gear to church, gone to the rest stop, then ridden the rest of the way AND have gone to church. Can't be helped now.

The BMW group apparently, when riding to a destination like this, does not ride back together. So we were able to leave when we wanted to, and stopped in Hastings at the Big Boy on the way home.

Made for a nice day. VBS starts tomorrow, it will be a busy week!