The last post on this blog site preceded the start of our transam bike trip. We finished that trip in Bar Harbor Maine mid September since when we've been in Boston, New York City, Ireland, South coast England,London,Edinburgh, Braemar, back to Ireland, back to NYC Asheville and finally home to Snowmass. To update the blog on all legs of this fabulous "home" visit, I'll work from the last to the first i.e. Start where we currently are - Asheville,NC
Attended a stunningly good Remembrance Day ( called Veterans Day in USA )service at the Deerfield chapel where we had a 2 minute silence at 11 minutes past 11 on 11/11/11. There was a superb address given by one of Betty's co residents George Boon, a WW2 pilot, who told of his remarkable escape from a burning B42 over Romania in 1944 and his subsequent capture and imprisonment and eventual repatriation. The 4 hymns we sang were hugely moving - 719 Oh Beautiful for Spacious Skies, 720 Oh say can you see... ( the National Anthem ), 717 My Country 'Tis of Thee and 597 Almighty Father Strong to Save.
Highlight of our stays wth Betty are our bridge session. Here we are playing with a dear friend of Betty's, Maisie, who has been a superb player in her time and is currently recovering from a 3rd major stroke. Her perserverance here was an inspiration to us.
Staying with " Granny " is always a restful experience and this stay is proving to be no exception. Lots of good eating , sleeping , shopping and bridge. At 89 she' doing very, very well.
A bonus for us here has been seeing Duncan & Katy who had driven down for a long weekend to stay in Montreat. We had a good dinner with them to celebrate Katy's birthday and then lunch the next day at Black Mounatain. They're both looking so happy and fit. A real delight to see them. They had biked Montreat to Lake Lure before our lunch on a beautiful morning .
Unfortunately can't load pics from my IPad since changing to gmail. They'll be added next week when we're back in Snowmass. Early snows mean resort opening 1 week BERORE Thanksgiving.
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