11/30/04 Dad's visit

11/30/2004 LETTER TO BECKY

Katie and Grandpa Laurito

The visit with Dad was nice. He was pretty easy to have. He brought his car full of stuff that we went through when he first got here. He likes to watch the financial channel on the TV so he did that some. I made 1 and ½ of my binders with the material you sent. I didn’t have any more binders and needed some cardboard to do the inside of the 2nd binder so it’s only partly done. I still don’t have pictures from you or Ruth from the funeral. I also don’t have Ruth’s talk. I wanted to put that in my binder.

Dad slept on the couch and made waffles for the kids. It really was a nice visit. He took us to golden corral for dinner Saturday night. He was going to go home Sunday but the weather was bad so he went Monday morning.

The circus, circus buffet is cheap-- but it is also yucky. At least when we went we didn’t care for it. There are a lot of buy one get one free coupons out there and you may be able to get a “better” buffet for about the same price if you can find some. It seems like the LUXOR was a buffet on the strip that we went to and really enjoyed. The best buffet down there is at Sam’s Town and the ‘round the world buffet over in Henderson. Course they cost $$$. I don’t think we’ll want to go to Las Vegas but I can ask Andy. We got our share of Vegas when we had to go down monthly for our vending business. It’ll be fun to have you all for dinner anyway – if the weather will behave.

Our house is wonderful if we can get a sunny day so the kids can play outside. It’s not nearly big enough if we have rain or really cold weather. Keep your fingers crossed!

The embroidery sounds fun – did you find space to set up your machine without taking over your house? I can’t think of anything I want to make up but if I do I’ll let you know.

Well I have court in a couple of hours so I have to run. I was going to call you but haven’t had time lately. Talk to you soon. Sg.

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