Hi All,
We've been in Springboro at "Suite 101" for a week now. I'll summarize our visit......Jessie and Christine have named the converted office to bedroom as " Suite 101: Baxter's" a very comfortable and functional room. It makes our stay even more comfortable and enjoyable!

We attended Gabe's award ceremony for 8 th grade graduation, he got like 8 awards for stuff like relay for life, science fair excellence and the like....GO GABE! Gabe is grandchild # 1 of 7 and is following in grandpa's footsteps as he also got bunches of awards in his eighth grade graduation and boy scouts. Grandpa's geography medal has helped trememdously in kicking butt in trivial pursuit and Jeopardy tournaments !

Jim had fun riding on the Little Miami River trail again. Rode over 220 miles this week , mostly down to Loveland to a favorite coffee stop and back, about 60 miles roundtrip. Lots of deer, squirrels and other fauna and flora.

Had a great time at Gabe's graduation party which was "cover" for Chris's 40 th birthday party,two parties in one. He was totally suprised, but still insisted on cooking the burgers for both Gabe's freinds and all the rest of us... Christine did a great job of organizing the event and keeping it a secret. Lots of fun. Chris' brother Mike and daughter Sammy made the trip up for the event and it was good to spend more time with them.

Sunday was special......we had a great family breakfast with Jessie making her famous scrambled eggs.........then after dinner that night we had cake and suprised grandpa with cards for both his birthday and fathers day in advance as we will be somewhere out west on the acutal days. Thanks! Also the kids got grandpa a GPS for his bike for his birthday! Now he will have no excuse to not be ontime or get lost......so much for those well used paper maps! I'll have to spend the next couple of weeks learning how to use it. It has a lot of functions and maybe Suz can track my wherabouts, not sure if it can do that..........

Then........we went for a Hot Air Ballon ride which was totally awesome! Something that grandpa and grandma have wanted to do for some time.
Bella Balloons did a great job! The wind was calm but we had a great time and landed in the Dayton Mall.........too bad grandma left her purse in the chase car!! Again thanks to C&C for arranging this great ride!!

Thanks to Chris and Chris and Gabe, Trev, Jess and Tori for taking such good care of us for our visit......we are blessed. Or.....as MR. MBA would say ....we are getting a great ROI on our investments...........
We leave for Custer South Dakota Wed, 6/3......