Everyone else gets Columbus Day off...not me. Anyway, we spent the weekend in Michigan. Beth's sister was home from Alabama and having a birthday party at her brother's house. Our niece Amy was also in town with her daughter, whom we had never met (she's about 11 months old). Ric took some pictures of all the kids while we were there. It seemed strange that Alex was in the picture with the other grandchildren, who are all in their late 20's, and not with the great-grandchildren, who are more his age. We stayed in a Motel 6 (cheep!) Saturday night because Beth can not sleep on her mother's sofa sleeper anymore (it's the worst sleeper ever made). Ted had room for us but we didn't know until too late. Friday night was date night here; we left Alex at the church and went to dinner, but there wasn't a movie playing that we wanted to see so we picked him up early. We are so lame, all we did after dinner was go to Big Lots and Wal-Mart.