Moving Day

Wednesday is the day that we move to a hotel in Leesburg and trade our Dulles rental cars for Leesburg cars. Jake, Peggy, Gene and I meet at 10, then pick up George so he can also get his car and go back and get his family. The weather is intermittent rain.
The new hotel has some age on it and a Federal style house from the 1700's is a part of the property. The room is decorated very nicely but there are some oddities. To get to it, one has to go down a half flight of stairs and then up a flight. This takes some doing with our heavy suitcases. Then when you walk on the bathroom floor, the tiles crunch and move around a bit with is a bit unsettling. But all in all it is a good thing.
The men leave to deal with the rental car exchange and Peggy and I get the hotel shuttle to take us to the outlet mall where we pass several pleasant hours. An interesting this about this mall is that all the employees are quite friendly and helpful. The rental car exchange, true to form, did not go smoothly and when we returned to the hotel at 3, the Dennis family was just checking in. Gene and Jake were just leaving to buy supplies to make the old radio/ipod union work better.
Later in the evening, the 7 of us head into Leesburg again. We have a drink at the Lightfoot where we ate two nights ago so George and Kay can see it. After discussions with the bartender and waitstaff, we head out for a nearby restaurant in an old mill where the wife of one of the waiters will be our server. The mill is really neat and sparks an interesting discussion. It seems that George and Kay had purchased an old mill in Tennessee many years before and converted it into a home and this one looks like its twin. What an undertaking! Our server, Kristy, is just as cute and perky as one could be and the food is very good. Peggy and I are wearing our new purchases.
There is promise of cooler weather and sunshine for the next three days. Tomorrow the men will move the airplane from Dulles to Leesburg. Gene reports that Leesburg ramp is very crowded and he does not see that they have room for an air show there. The city manager, who is in charge of the show, proposed parking the plane on the end of the runway, saying other planes could just stop sooner. Gene told him that the other planes then could not turn off the runway, and besides, it is illegal. Oh! This show could be interesting. Stay tuned.