A Couple Steps Closer

I got up this morning and once again started in attempting to make reservations at the Bethesda hotel for next Tuesday and Wednesday.  I was successful in getting the NIH rate for Wednesday at the Bethesda hotel.  And, already had a hotel reservation for Monday night in Orange, VA.  So now the only night that we are lacking a room that we want a reservation for is for Tuesday night.  We can easily go to the hotel in Fairfax, VA where we often stay when that is our first night's driving goal.  I still wish that we could stay closer to NIH...I may try again to see if there is a room available as we get nearer to the day...or I may just go on and book a reservation in Fairfax.  It's interesting that when I finally got a woman operator for the hotel 800 line, she had no problem finding the correct rate...just that one of the nights a room wasn't available for that rate (This time it "only" took three different operators on two different days to finally have one find the correct rate!). When our laptop had problems a while back, we lost some of our email contacts so this morning I had to figure out a way to contact our research nurse.  I finally replied to the secretary who had made Woody's appointment for this time and she emailed me the nurse's email.  So things are starting to fall into place for our trip. We will start out dark and early on Monday.  Drive to Orange, VA that day and then tour Montpelier on Tuesday.  When we are finished at Montpelier we will drive on to wherever we have a reservation for that night.  Then Wednesday morning we will head to NIH for Woody's labs and then his CT scan.  This time he is only scheduled for a CT.  So we "should" be finished before lunch.  Then we go back to NIH on Thursday to turn in vouchers, pick up any meds he needs, and see the research team in clinic.  After they are finished with us in the clinic, we will start heading back toward TN.  We'll stop somewhere along the way that night and then finish the drive to Tullahoma on Friday.

Woody walked seven miles this morning.  Later in the morning he made pumpkin pudding for the neighbors.  This time he had Elijah's help.  I had school with Elijah, Esther, Joy, and Abigail this morning.  Then this afternoon I worked on this week's Sunday School lesson.  This evening we are both relaxing.  I have been reading upstairs and Woody is downstairs with the TV on and is probably reading too.