We made it to Lauren’s house! It was good to drive up their bumpy little road and to squeeze our West Virginia crew.
It’s been a pretty laid-back week. We worked on a few projects at Lauren’s place (shelves in the laundry room and pantry and battling a population of wasps). We spent time with the kids in the sand box and around the yard. For some fun videos of life at Lauren & Bo’s place, visit Bo’s YouTube channel here.
We went into Parkersburg and visited the Discovery World Children’s Museum. It’s so fun to see the kids’ changes since we visited in May. We went to the Farmer’s Market and had a yummy dinner at The Galley in Marietta. We also had a fun afternoon at the pool in St. Mary’s.
Nathan played a violin accompaniment to a song that Lauren sang in Sacrament Meeting today and our niece Sarah played the piano. It was a treat to hear them make music together.
For those who are curious about the saga of the car, here’s the scoop. The insurance company determined that the shop in St. Louis was completely at fault (duh!), so they are paying our rental car expenses in full. However, it was determined that the car is a total loss, so we had to decide if we would take the money and let them salvage the car or take the money and keep the car to repair. After plenty of deliberation, we decided that we would just take the money offered to us and not worry about repairing the car. If we had decided to sell the car before leaving the country, that’s how it would have ended up anyway. We’ll just start over when we get back. It was kind of sad to see a perfectly good car wiped out by someone’s incompetence. We liked that car and it has been a really good, reliable vehicle since we bought it a few years ago. Anyway, that’s the end of the sad story.
Tomorrow, we change from a hotel in Parkersburg to an AirBnB in Marietta. We are here for one more week and it’s crazy to think that we are flying to Germany soon.
