Today was not too exciting - A trip to Walmart first thing in the morning before leaving the Buffalo area. I think that the Garmin NUVI is one of the greatest inventions of all time. There is NO way I would be able to navigate myself thru these cities & towns, but Garmin does it effortlessly. I tell Garmin that I want to go to a Walmart, and before you know it, we are "arriving at destination!"
Cheektowaga, New York - I'm not sure how you say it, but there you go.
After the Walmart trip, Garmin found us a place to do laundry. So between Walmart & laundry, it was about 1:30 pm when we finally got on the road today.
We drove west on I-90 to Erie, PA, then south on I-70 to Pittsburgh. As we were nearing Pittsburgh, dad mentioned that the first town he served in on his mission was just outside of Pittsburgh, a town called New Kensington. I thought it would be fun to drive over there to see if he recognized anything. Well he surprised me, he could even tell us the address of the home where he lived, 530 5th Ave, New Kensington, PA. So I plugged the address into Garmin and away we went. The whole area is quite hilly, and really heavy wooded. Little towns down in each valley. I thought it was really pretty. We found the house, it was still standing, although it is in kinda a slum part of town. The house looked good, compared with others in the neighborhood. Dad said there had been some work done on it, new siding, new porch - a lot can happen in 60 years. After that he directed me to another part of town - up a steep hill. Dad said they spent a lot of time tracting those homes. The homes up there were again older, but well kept up & just beautiful. It still looked like a wealthy part of town. I drove up & down several streets just looking at how pretty they were - all with beautiful yards as well.
530 5th Ave. New Kensington, PA
Here's one more picture I like - I should have posted it last nite, because it is a picture taken while we were at Niagara Falls. We went into a little shop, they had all these crazy hats. I thought this one was so funny, & had Kimball try it on. He said he would wear it, so I bought it for him and it is now following us home.
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I'm surprised, well not actually with that memory grpa has, that he can remember addresses like that. Fun stuff!
Do you ever wonder if Wal*Mart must have a giant warehouse somewhere to store all their signage, like those letters? Imagine walking through row after row after row of giant Wal*Mart signs.
my mission was not nearly as long ago and I can't remember the addresses of where I lived! what a great memory that grandpa has. that's so cool you were able to spend some time in his mission!
and I love the hat!
Grandpa has a great memory. Just think of all the stories he has memorized. That Suduko must be working! It would be fun to go see his old "stompin" grounds. And hear his stories of his mission.
How neat to have grandpa take you around part of his mission!
Love the hat too!
Don't have anything constructive to add here, but I did read your entry and don't want to be accused of lurking, so there you go...
Garmon, you funny... Where would we be without Walmart, no really where would we be?? :)
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