Beth’s mom had a birthday party this weekend. We went up Friday (I took the afternoon off), intending to stay overnight at Pam and Marve’s house. We got there in the mid afternoon, and went right to the nursing home. Ted had Mom G out, but was back shortly, and the entire family went out to eat at a Chinese/Mongolian buffet. The party (just family) was at her nursing home. I think Beth was just too depressed by the place to want to stay overnight, especially not wanting to have to get the kids to bed in a strange place, and besides, Pam was a little bit sick, so we excused ourselves after the party and headed home. On the way home it became apparent to me by the noise coming from the front end of the van that we needed new tires. Saturday we bought 4 new ones.