January 29 through 30, 2008

Tuesday 29th~~~~~Today is Pammy's birthday, we sure do have a lot of December and January birthdays in Sharon's family. We both feel so young and keep so active that we don't feel our age at all. We called Pammy and wished her a happy birthday, Jeff is out of town, so she is going out for dinner tonight with Tress and the kids and her mother-in-law. ~~~~Mz. Blaize checked into the hospital at 7 AM this morning to have the penny removed at nine AM. They removed it with a pair of tongs and didn't have to go through the chest like they thought they might have have to, if it was embedded to much.
This afternoon we went to the "Olympic Training Center" with our friend Gary. He hadn't been there before. When we were there last year we met this young man named Lee Stewart who was in archery at the training center. We were so impressed with him, we wanted to get his name to follow his career. He didn't make the cut and he went home to high school in Illinois.(picture) When we left there, we stopped at a "Parachute Drop School". We watched the young men training to be "Navy Seals" do their final practice drops at the field. It was quite interesting to watch them fold that monster chute up. They were 20 minutes late with their drop and the instructor told us they couldn't jump because of the clouds at 14,000 feet.They had to have a full view of the ground. It was FFA rules that their bodies were the same as a moving object(plane) in a flight plan. The sky finally cleared up and they came out of the sky. It was a beautiful sight to see as the jumpers landed about 30 feet from us.(picture) Sightseeing around the places we stop sure gives us a opportunity to see and learn things.