Staying in Falmouth, MA

Cathi, Roceil and I arrived in Boston at 4:00 pm yesterday and drove down to Falmouth where we are staying at Briarwood. With the help of the GPS, it wasn't too tough to find.

We went to church this morning to the Cape Cod Branch and there were about 30 people there. It was nice to visit a small branch where the people seem so familiar with each other and tight knit.

Afterwards we went back to the resort. We discussed our options with Bill and decided to find a place closer to Boston so we didn't have to drive so far so early in the morning on Monday for Cathi's Marathon. So I quickly went over to the office and connected to the wireless internet and found a Motel 6 right next to the Braintree station which takes right in to the race. It was a great deal and worked out great.

We began the drive back to pick up Bill who stayed in SLC on Saturday to participate in Bill Jr's last thing for his Masters Degree. We picked up Bill and he decided to get the GPS that has voice commands. At first I thought it would just be as good as mine. But those voice commands, and the display how it zooms in when necessary and puts in arrows and turns sure was nice and made it much easier than mine. OK so I'm hooked. We drove down to the Motel 6 where we stayed and went to Chili's for dinner.

I'm eating healthy on this trip. I don't want to go back home and see that I've gained 10 pounds.

During our dinner at Chili's I told Roceil that I was setup to get text updated on my phone when Cathi reached 10K, 1/2 Marathon, 30K and finish. She was interested so I set her up to get the updates on her phone as well as how she could text people and receive texts. She tried it out by sending Bill Jr and text message. Bill responded and she send back a response which was just a blank message. We got a good laugh. Cathi and her were texting people a few times that night. Sheesh! Newbies!

We got back to the motel and Cathi started getting ready for the next morning. Braintree station to Park St Station is about 30 minutes and the buses leave Boston Common near the finish line for the Starting line from 6:45 - 7:30 so we planned on getting up there at 7:00 am.