While up at Three Rivers finishing up our chores and visiting with neighbors on Thursday evening, I chanced to check my mail one more time before calling it a night. What did I find but a message from Ben, "Call me!" Now I don't know if I mentioned that there is very limited cell service in Three Rivers unless you're on the AT&T network, which means Verizon doesn't work worth a damn. The park had pretty good wi fi, so we sent him a note. Seems that they had lucked out and made arrangements for a baptism while both sets of grand-parents were in town. Only 1 problem....we weren't in town. But the bus has wheels, and since we were planning on leaving the following day, it didn't inconvenience us at all. Debbie had Ben's Baptismal outfit from Aunt Char in Akron, and we were ready to roll.
Saturday morning arrived and we all met at Our Lady of Perpetual Help in Lakeside, met with a wonderful Irish Deacon named Dennis O'Neill, and with the help of Fred and Melissa Aguon, who dropped everything and drove back from LA, stepping in as Acting God-Parents, Baptized Liam. He only screamed once, and I am sure it was the devil leaving!
The parents did fine, and both sets of grandparents seemed to be real proud of everyone, I think Ben was Baptized at least 4 times before the "official" event, but as far as I can tell, this was Liam's first time.
Not sure if David and MaryAnne still have to complete their Baptism classes before this is official, but it probably wouldn't hurt MAE to complete the class. I'm not going to say anything! We bid farewell to Mike right after the ceremony as he had to catch a flight back home. Jeanne was able to squeeze a few more days into her visit, and I'm sure Joanne enjoyed the time they had together.
Meanwhile our vacation continues in San Diego. We get over to Lakeside to visit, but with Ben back on mid-nights, we're careful about disturbing his sleep.
Debbie and I went for a ride down to SD to check out the new RV's at Qualcom Stadium. This is something we like to do every year. Haven't seen anything we like better than Big Red, but we enjoy getting the sales people excited. We were able to squeeze a free lunch out of LaMesa RV, so that makes everything worthwhile. After the show, we headed down to Mission Beach to check out the water and some boats. Then over to Sunset Cliffs where lots of weird people hang out. The surf was up and people seemed to be enjoying themselves.
Joanne surprised us with a visit over to the trailer park, as we like to call it. She was out getting Jamo some exercise, and invited Debbie along. I was involved in monthly paperwork so I passed, but they were able to stick around for a while. Jamo was on his best behavior, even though he wanted desperately to go meet the little girls next door. Liam enjoyed the sights and sounds all around him, and snuggled down after Grammie got us a nice warm blanket. We've been experiencing a cooling trend along with some showers, which puts these locals into orbit. Rain showers are a major event with local tv stations dispatching their roving reporters to find rain!
Jamo got a nice drink from my rain bucket that I use to water the shrubbery. Liam got bored with all of us and did his own thing.
We got through Halloween and Superman, and now we're into Standard Time, which means just a few hours of sunshine. It's getting dark around 5 PM, so they days are pretty short. Guess it won't straighten up till Spring.
The parents did fine, and both sets of grandparents seemed to be real proud of everyone, I think Ben was Baptized at least 4 times before the "official" event, but as far as I can tell, this was Liam's first time. 
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