Karen’s niece Liz and the rest of the AU Eagles won the Patriot League championship a couple of weeks ago. That gave them entry into the NCAA Volleyball Championships. Of all of the teams (which there are 64 of them) and of all the places, they drew the #1 team in the country … University of Nebraska-Lincoln. …
Even though we were all up late, there was no sleeping in. The cars got packed up and we started our long journey home. The drive home was long (12 hours) and uneventful. We made a pit stop in Altoona, Pennsylvania for lunch and checked out a Big Lots to see if they had any Cocomotions…
We started the day by heading down to awesome buffett breakfast. After lots of discussion, Larry and Joan went to the shopping mall and the rest of us head down to the National Mall. We walked to The White House, Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Lincoln Memorial and along the reflecting pool to the National World War II…
We decided that we wanted to be on the road early today, so we got up and were on our way by 8:15am. The drive was fine with a stop at KMart in Monroeville, PA for some quick shopping and Cracker Barrel for some take-out lunch. We arrived in Washington around 3:30pm. We decided to stop at…
Since we didn’t get enough volleyball last weekend, we decided that we would head back to American University to see Karen’s niece Liz and the rest of the AU Eagles in the Patriot League playoffs. American University got the right to host the playoffs by finishing first in the league. This trip to Washington, would be the first for…