11:00 p.m. Tuesday -- Just a quick post before crashing. I'm back home, having been treated to music and seafood by Big Mick in the best of hospitable traditions. The evening with the Conklin Ceili Band was great fun, and Mick's own Mary Lou was good company while the band was playing -- made us Hollanders feel right at home in the Irish air! Dad especially loved Mick's irreverent jokes, which peppered the performance.Wish I could remember half of them! Thank you, Mick, for good music and good company. And it really was NO trouble delivering those hugs..... *BG*

Sandy -- I don't know if there's a Cracker Barrel in G.R., but do you remember where WE first shared a Grand Rapids meal?????? It was in "Sambo's," the restaurant attached to the Motel 6 on 28th street. That place and its decidedly incorrect name are long gone, thank god, but it kinda gives you an idea of how long ago THAT meal was!

Kath, who is too sleepy to type any more