Phil,
Thanks for sharing some details about your vacation.
Blessings,
Virgie At 08:04 PM 6/25/2005, you wrote:

>I had never been as far east as the ocean before our trip.  Our first plane
>flight went well but we got there after just about everyone had already
>boarded.  We, at first, had made reservations for just Sandy and I but then
>later, just in time, reserved a ticket for my 9 year old grandson, Everett.
>After making some minor changes, they put Everett and Sandy together and I
>sat across the aisle from Sandy.  It was just over 3 hours to Phily from
>Denver as a direct flight but we were on the ground in Denver for about 30
>minutes because they had to reboot the navigational equipment which took
>several minutes.  The flight was great and the tail wind made up lost time
>so we arrived on time.  Trenton, our oldest son, and one of his daughters,
>Amanda, who is seven, were there to meet us at the airport.  It took us
>about an hour to get to Trenton's home due to traffic but normally it is a
>45 minutes trip from his house in New Jersey to Phily.
>
>During the days we were there, we got to go to a farm that gives you a hay
>ride, or wagon ride is more like it, to different areas of the farm to pick
>your own fruit.  Right now, some cherries were in and some strawberries but
>they have apples and other things.  Monday, we went back into Phily and took
>a ride on an amphibious vehicle, called a duck although I misspelled it to
>make it read properly, which has 6 wheels for driving on land but it is also
>a boat.  It was about a 90 minute historical ride around parts of Phily and
>then we drove into the Delaware river for about 30 of those minutes to see
>other things in Phily from the water.  It was very educational.
>
>After that ride, we went to see the Liberty Bell.  They normally allow blind
>people to feel it so Sandy and I did.  I cannot explain the emotional
>feeling you have actually touching something as historical and politically
>important as the Liberty Bell and that includes the crack.
>
>Tuesday, we went about 90 minutes from their home to the Atlantic and
>although it was in the seventies, it was super windy and very cold.  My son,
>his wife and girls, all went into the ocean to play but Sandy and I were
>just too chilled.  I wish we could have gotten in but I'm too old for that
>sort of cold and I didn't want to get sick as a result.  Our grandson,
>Everett, played so hard in the ocean, he slept on the couch when we arrived
>home, and even when my son awakened him and helped him upstairs to bed, the
>next day he couldn't remember being helped upstairs.  Sandy and I were under
>a large beach umbrella most of the time but it was so chilly, they took it
>down and we sat in the sun to try and stay warm.  I wore my cowboy hat but
>the wind was always trying to blow it off my head.  I am such a whimp, I
>even used a large beach towel to cover up from head to toe.  We did not get
>sun burned but we sure got wind burn because the wind was super gusty.
>
>Wednesday, at about 11 o'clock in the morning, we drove to Phily to catch
>the plane home.  It was a good flight both ways and this time we got there
>early enough that they could arrange, or rearrange, seating so Sandy and I
>and Everett could all sit in the same roe.  That made the flight go a little
>quicker.
>
>The humidity in NJ just about killed me off.  I haven't been to a humid
>state for many years.  Just walking across their house made me ringing wet
>and I was horribly thirst all the time.  They have central air but it seemed
>like that didn't help much.  Fortunately, and this was a big blessing, as it
>turned out, they had a cold spell the five days we were there.  It was about
>80 or 82 when we arrived but then dropped down into the low seventies the
>rest of the week and one day it was only about 68 degrees and we about froze
>due to the humidity.  The last day we were there, it was about 80 degrees
>and the next day I believe my son said it hit 90 degrees so we made it out
>just in time.
>
>My other granddaughter's name is Allison.  She is about 4 and as I said,
>Amanda is about seven.  Amanda was in Christian school last year and her
>mom, Cheryl, works for the school, gets paid an hourly wage, plus a big
>discount on their school bill.  Allison will be in kindergarten this fall
>and both girls will be in the same school.  Their school is an old red brick
>church building which was made in 1901 but the church that owns it has
>carpeting and rebuilt and remodele3d everything inside so it is a very nice
>school and church building.
>
>I likely have left out some things that Sandy may comment on later but
>needless to say, we had a great time.  I still can't believe I went because
>I am kind of a hermit.
>
>My son, Trenton, right after graduating from Christian school, went and
>applied at Merrill Lynch.  I have no idea how you spell that.  He has always
>worked, over the last ten years, in operational departments so he does no
>selling.  When they closed the 1 billion dollar operation in Denver 3 years
>ago, they gave Trent an opportunity to move to NJ and to keep his job.  He
>has now, after many promotions in these 10 years, also taken some difficult
>exams they offer and is now in a special program which allowed him to leave
>the main Merril Lynch operation and move into local branch offices.  He is
>learning three levels of department operations and once that happens and he
>takes another test, they will, in this special program, allow him to move
>next summer, most likely, to another branch office to run by himself.  There
>is, fortunately, a branch office in Denver,  Wouldn't that be wonderful if
>they could move back to their home town?  If not, I suppose I'll be taking
>another airplane flight to some place else I have never been.  By the way,
>he also takes college courses online for which the company pays him for.  so
>he eventually will end up with a college degree, and although he is paid
>quite well now, he'll be way up the ladder in the company.  god has
>certainly blessed him.
>
>If you would like to read something quite interesting about my son which he
>wrote, log on to my website, click on True Testimonies, and cursor down to a
>testimony called "Jesus Gave Me An Orange Match box car."  It is an amazing
>story of healing he experienced.
>
>Phil.
>
>
>Phil C Sharp
>The Coil Of The snake
>A Free Online E-Novel
>www.SafePlaceFellowship.com
>
>
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