Woke up at 6:30, but stayed in bed until Hubbie woke up near 7:30. Once up, I spent some time doing a few things before breakfast, like starting country ribs marinating until tomorrow, and programming the DVR. After breakfast, we got ready to go to a town about 45 minutes away, to visit Hubbie's family at their lake house.
Before we left at 10 a.m., Hubbie hung our American flag on the well house, and Mother's on her porch, in early remembrance of Memorial Day.
There weren't as many family gathered at the lake house as usual...just his daughter and her husband, his granddaughter and her two children, along with her new friend and his two children, plus a nephew and his daughter. Granddaughter's new friend slept most of the afternoon, so we only briefly met him before we had to leave.
Lunch today was deli meat sandwiches, south-of-the-border dip, which I couldn't eat because of the yellow cheese it was made with, avacado dip, salsa and chips, steamed squash, coleslaw, and fruit. Dessert was homemade ice cream that nephew had made, which we had with brownies that Hubbie made last night as our contribution to the meal.
Afterward, we had a good visit until time to head home around 3 p.m. We were back before 5 p.m. I accompanied Mother to her house, and then Hubbie and I settled in to watch TV, including "The Beautiful Country," a four-star, 2004 movie. This excellent film is about a young Vietnamese man, who, because he is of mixed race, is not welcome in his hometown, and is forced to leave. His father was a GI who, for mysterious reasons, abandoned him and his mother. He sets out on a harrowing journey to the U.S., and then to Texas in search of the father. The movie is subtitled in the beginning, but eases into English after awhile.
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