Sat. 2/1/25, Bruce texted that he was feeling better today, Bill and I went to Houghton Lake to do officer’s training, Went to. Buccilli’s, Adam and Hope paid us a surprise visit,

Amish horse and buggy just pulling in to the beautiful Amish Farm

Bill answering questions and explaining things between videos for each officer.  He did a great job!

We each got small pizzas at Buccilli’s Pizza

We go home and shortly after had these wonderful surprise visitors.  I cut up banana’s and we had ice cream on top with toppings of chocolate chips, M & M’s, and chocolate.

 We got up, got ready, read our Bibles and then I fed the birds.  We left and headed for Houghton Lake at 10.  It was a beautiful sunny day, but the temperature was only 17 degrees when we left.  We enjoyed our ride.  We went through Meredith, where when we were first married, Bill had called about buying a parts business with cabins to rent also.  We went up to look at it the next day, but someone bought it before we got there. That wasn’t in God’s plan for us, and I have to say I am thankful.  I wanted to stay close to our parents and then after we had the girls,  I was even more glad.  They had the best grandparents and were so close to them.  

The road Bill’s GPS had us go on came to a place where the sign said DO NOT ENTER.  It turned into a trail instead of a road, but Bill kept going.  I was glad we had the Jeep.  Finally, we ended up back on the road Bill wanted to be on where the church was.  I was happy to get there.  We talked to all of the officer’s from the different chapters up north that were there.  Bill took his computer and the sound lady helped him get set up.  It was ready to go, when it started saying no signal on the screen of the tv in the church.  The pastor went back and prayed with them.  Then we worked on it, and all of a sudden Bill did something and it worked again.  It did that one more time before we started, and Bill got it going again.  Then it worked perfectly and we could do the video training. Computers can be a little frustrating when they don’t work.  The training went well and Bill did a great job.  He answered lots of questions that were asked.  It was nice to see Gary there.  A couple of years ago, we were at this church, and he had surgery after we saw him.  Two days later he had a stroke.  He had a rough road, but now is pretty much back to normal.  We all were praising God.

We talked to people, and then left to go Camping World, then to Bucilli’s for pizza.  It was the best pizza!  YUM! Bill ate all of his and I brought half of mine home.  We had an enjoyable ride home and I looked over my Sunday School lesson for tomorrow again.  We were just starting to change into comfy clothes, and Bill went into the bathroom, when I heard voices.  It was Hope and Adam surprising us.  They parked back. by the shed and then came in the back door.  They sure did surprise us, and what a nice surprise it was.  I cut up bananas for our bowls, then put in the ice cream each one wanted, then we put toppings of M&M’s, chocolate syrup, and chocolate chips on.  We had fun talking while we ate.  Hope passed some gas and we all ran for cover.  We sure had a good laugh.  They had to leave after that, so we gave hugs and said goodbye.  They had been at Vikki’s before coming here.  I’m waiting for a text from Adam saying he is hoe and so is Vikki.  Such a fun day.