Finishing Up Tidbits

The rest of the weekend (for Betsy's benefit) includes the following:

On the way home from Holiday World Sunday, we got hungry in spite of the funnel cakes and ice cream we had around 6 p.m. (most of us) during the diving show, pictured above. It was around 9 p.m. when we got one exit from C'ville where we had taken great care to select Quiznos for the late dinner. I went into a coffee shop (don't ask) while everyone else went into Quiznos to start ordering. Soon I had my coffee and here came everyone because Q. was closed. Subway and the other local joint in the plaza were also closed so we went to fill up the gas tank for $3.16, an unbelievable price. I had just gotten half a tank in desperation for $3.39 several exits earlier.

Across the road we saw a small pizza place and a friendly fellow gas cheapskate said he recommended it. Decision made. We just got there in time to place the last order of the evening, pizza and a ham and cheese sub for Boy14. I was on the cell phone when the waitress took the drink order, so she asked Betsy, "Does she just want to drink on her coffee all night?" Betsy said she can't even imagine drinking coffee with pizza. Nephew8 declared, this is a nice to meet your friends but not for a family dinner.

The boys were nutsy in the car. One would say three initials and the other would make up some dumb words to go with it, which they thought was just hilarious.

The next morning we slept in. On the way home Cal and I played our 20 questions baseball game. Someone thinks of a major league player. Cal has 8 questions to guess the guy, and I was allowed 10. I nailed Barry Zito in 2 questions: Is he on Barry Zito's new team? Is it Barry Zito? Cal came back with a quick read on David Eckstein. Later he got mad when I didn't know the team, let alone national/american league my guy was on when he was the guesser. Once when he narrowed down the Yankees to pitchers, he said, "I hope it's not Roger Clemens" and I said yes, it is, why? He said, "He hasn't put on the jersey yet, he's still in the minors." Ooops. Suffice it to say he won the game handily. And it passed the time quickly in the car.

And that's the rest of the story...