the Grabers: A safe drive home

Sunday morning, Adam spoke about the Bread of Life.

Christ fed the 5,000 from "2 Lunchables".

"They ate and were filled, ALL!"

In the wilderness, the Lord had fed the Israelites with manna. And in our desolate places, He will "feed" us too.

Taste and see that the Lord is good!

We left church after 1st service. Well, not Adam, of course. He still had another service to preach. Jill, Hannah and Sophia needed to be ready to go to the play at 1:00 (it started at 2:00). Hannah's last play. They had performed the 2 nights before and also had done it for the elementary and the middle schools. After lunch, we said our goodbyes to them, but Claire stayed with us. She would go later with her daddy when he got home from church.

The snow was coming down. We needed to go before it got worse.

It was a sad parting. Tears.

We were thankful that the snow plows were busy!

A deer jumped across the road in front of us. Two others turned back. Hope they all made it safely across!

The barn we look for each trip.

Mister, do you see the No U-Turn sign??

Al had had to drive cautiously the whole day and we were both spent by the time we got to Altoona, and were ready to spend the night rather than get home at 2AM or later. We had seen a couple cars in the ditches and didn't want to take any chances.

We checked into the hotel. With the weather being as it was, we sure didn't need to be told they had no vacancies.

After checking in, we went to KFC nearby. It isn't the healthiest food, but it sure is good! Al's mother used to make fried chicken all the time and it is comfort food! We haven't eaten at one for over a year, and it just seemed like a good night for it. Our grandkids do not like fried chicken on the bone, but we do!

We watched a couple episodes of HGTV. We don't have cable so it is always a fun thing to do in a hotel for us! After a restful night, we were ready to make it rest of the way home. We saw a couple of cars in the ditches as we went around Des Moines. Black ice. By the time we got to Kansas, the snow/ice had turned to rain.