We made it to Springfield, MO without incidence. Kathy is a good driver. We expected hot weather and almost froze when we drove through a rain storm this morning from just this side of Tulsa all the way to the hotel. We left at 8 this morning and got to Springfield at 10:30. The rain had stopped but the cloudy weather kept it cool. It was 66 degrees on the car thermometer as we drove in. We left home yesterday at 8:22 in the morning. Drove through Cisco, Breckenridge, Graham and entered I-44 at Wichita Falls and stayed on 44 all the way to the hotel here. We got to the hotel in Catoosa (Tulsa suburb that is the port city for Tulsa) at 4 p.m. and had a nap. We were all tired and went to bed early. It is4:30 and I just looked at the KTXS radar and it looks like we got a rain shower at Halsell Hill.
When we spent our time in the lobby waiting for our room here we got to visit a lot of old friends. The oldest is Natilie at 100. She is in a wheel chair because getting on the bus at the airport she slipped and fell and sprained her left leg. No broken bones. She said it was because her macular degeneration causes problems with her short distance vision. She loves to talk and told us how she got married in 1936 to a doctor as she completed her nurse's training. They both donated their bodies to science and that he died after picking up a hitchhiker who infected him with meningitis. The university hospital took his body because at the time they had little knowledge of the disease in adults.
Fortunately I was reading Johhny Boggs' WALK TALL AND STAND PROUD when he came by. Lou went to a meeting of the board of directors of WWA. Kathy and I waited till we could get our room at 2 and unloaded the car. As we were putting things away, Kathy found she had lost a diamond ring Keith had given her. We searched the room and path we had taken. Went back downstairs and fortunately she found it where she had been sitting and had used some hand cream. So we could then take a nap. Lou is still in her meeting. She says she is feeling much better although she still has some lower back pain. Everyone she has met at the meeting told her they also have back pain so it is an epidemic.
When we spent our time in the lobby waiting for our room here we got to visit a lot of old friends. The oldest is Natilie at 100. She is in a wheel chair because getting on the bus at the airport she slipped and fell and sprained her left leg. No broken bones. She said it was because her macular degeneration causes problems with her short distance vision. She loves to talk and told us how she got married in 1936 to a doctor as she completed her nurse's training. They both donated their bodies to science and that he died after picking up a hitchhiker who infected him with meningitis. The university hospital took his body because at the time they had little knowledge of the disease in adults.
Fortunately I was reading Johhny Boggs' WALK TALL AND STAND PROUD when he came by. Lou went to a meeting of the board of directors of WWA. Kathy and I waited till we could get our room at 2 and unloaded the car. As we were putting things away, Kathy found she had lost a diamond ring Keith had given her. We searched the room and path we had taken. Went back downstairs and fortunately she found it where she had been sitting and had used some hand cream. So we could then take a nap. Lou is still in her meeting. She says she is feeling much better although she still has some lower back pain. Everyone she has met at the meeting told her they also have back pain so it is an epidemic.
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