Alex is home! He is on spring break, which seems early to me. But anyway we got him tickets to fly home a while back and went to Chicago yesterday to pick him up. Everything seems to be going pretty well for him there, and he’s been told that after spring break they will be going back to in-person classes! Awesome, much better than last time being told that maybe they would be online only for the rest of the year. Anyway, he had a $50 Uber ride to Sea-Tac because Scott couldn’t deliver him this time, and he got in to O’Hare at around 3:00 Chicago time, but it was a little while before we got him because the airline information said he was coming to the wrong concourse so we were waiting in the wrong spot. But we finally got him and headed home, stopping at another Schoop’s in Valpo on the way, which wasn’t as good as the one in Portage. He’s pretty jet-lagged (barely could stay awake for church today), but he’s home!

Missy also has college stuff going on. Last Wednesday there was a day off from school for her, since the lower grades were doing testing, and the seniors were not. She wanted to go to Muncie and check out the town more so than the school, to see what was there, look for shopping and grocery stores and such. So I took a day off and she and Beth and I headed down there. We arrived around lunchtime and found a restaurant (IHOP), then did a whole bunch of driving around the town and walked all throughout the Muncie Mall. The mall looks like it has been in serious decline for a long time now, I think 3 of the 4 anchor stores are vacant and the 4th is a discount overstock junk store thrown together. Maybe a third of the stores are open. So not much going on there, but there was plenty of shopping elsewhere, pretty much everything she will need. Plus she’ll be living in a dorm so she won’t need to shop all that much anyway. Not a bad place to go to college, it seems to me, although definitely not as vibrant as Redmond, WA. Missy’s getting excited about going, I think the trip made her feel better about moving there. 

There was a Fight Club assignment to deep clean/detail Beth's van this week. I got into it with a vacuum and dusting cloth and wet cloths and windex like the van hasn't been cleaned since we got it. It looks pretty sharp now. I should do the truck too...