Jerry has always been able to ferret out surprises I plan for him...except this time! His birthday and the family reunion were on the same day this year so we decided to celebrate his 66th on Sunday instead. He knew Amanda, Shawn, John, and Tracy would be here for dinner. What he didn't know is that Rob drove all Saturday night to get here as THE surprise. Rob got here early while Jerry was still in the shower so I went back to the bedroom to encourage him to quickly finish getting dressed so he could get his birthday gift. When he rounded the corner at the end of the hallway and spotted Rob, he threw out his arms and exclaimed, "When did you?...How?....When?...." Jerry was speechless! Yep, JERRY was speechless, one of a very few times in his lifetime that he couldn't utter one complete sentence!! Rob and I had kept his visit a secret from the others and they, too, were taken by surprise.
We crammed as much as possible into the 2 1/2 days he was in Kentucky -- Jerry and he went clothes shopping; we had a couple of dinners here; the three of us went to a movie; Rob and John went to the Falls of the Ohio and wandered around; we talked and talked and talked. Like Jerry said, it's good to frequently talk to your child on the phone but nothing is quite as satisfying as seeing them in person.
Rob did a fun painting a few years ago. The subject is based on a brand of fireworks; it shows a monkey driving a little car so the name of the painting is Monkey Drive. Cassie wants to hang it in their bedroom in the condo they're buying so Rob packaged it up to take back with him. Since it's too large to fit into the bed of the truck, he, Jerry, and John struggled and fussed while lashing it down onto the bed cover. Of course, my job was to record the whole thing. :-)
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