We got up late, but I spent a good part of an hour writing about the last several days, as I was asking aunt Panna afterwards to make sure my recollection was straight.
We had a little bit of rain, as you can see here in the skylight of the cabin.
We got ready to head over to the log house to finally get a tour of the house and take a shower before running errands like paying bills through the library computers, loading up the ice chest with food and more ice while we waited for the paperwork to be concluded this afternoon. Panna played with Sophie while I was showering and being shown the house.
The log house is absolutely gorgeous, with its white pine walls, high vaulted white pine ceilings, hardwood floors (all of these give off a beautiful glow under lights) and large windows, and two upstairs bedrooms and two balconies that offer beautiful views of the forest that closely surrounds the house, a basement with a short climbing wall that has T-nut holes to allow for variability of rock hold positioning and angles, and it also has different walls that are more horizontally positioned to make bouldering more challenging. The family is really into climbing!
After the showers we headed off to do the errands. Still no progress on the car loan. We decided to pick up my car for a last drive down to the dealership, and hopefully the car will be ready this afternoon. Strangely enough, I got suspicious when we found the car parked in a different spot at the mechanic's shop, even though I had all the keys on me the entire trip to Boston! Everything appeared fine. We drove the car down to the lot on the other side of downtown Columbus, BUT the paperwork was nowhere near done.
It would be, I don't know, one or two days. I was very upset about this. That would mean missing a day or two of work, and I don't want to make up for the loss in income with my small-and-not-growing vacation bank, never mind my savings!
I've been so stressed out over this that I asked to get food tonight before meeting with some people that Panna and Christelie know. We went and got something small and had a pretty good time before going somewhere for more food before going to a party they invited us to.
We tried to get to the party, but of all things, a train with TWO engines and ONE car was stopped dead on the tracks right in the middle of the street. Not 40 feet over to the left or right of the road. In the middle of the road... Panna had to figure a way around it by calling someone at the party. Eventually, we arrived at a really nicely decorated house owned by a woman who came from Turkey. Very nice lady, too. She even grows veggies in her garden. I picked a couple of home-grown tomatoes out of the basket on the food table. I sat with several people through the night in the well-lit screened patio in the rear of the house, enjoying the conversations with people from different walks of life. There was a swimming pool out in the backyard, but even if I had my swim suit with me, I wouldn't dare step into the hypothermia-inducing cold water of the pool! Someone was even playing a saxophone, but so loud I could hardly hear the conversations I was having. I later saw that the lungs belonged to a very tall woman. I wondered how she managed to play so loud without shattering the reed in her mouthpiece. Eventually, we had to leave for the cabin around one in the morning to try to catch some sleep in case the car is ready early in the day tomorrow. I was so sleepy, I slept most of the way back, and I went straight to bed.
