Hey! The hotel in Saginaw has an internet connection! Kinda. Sorta. The free wireless in the dining room doesn’t seem to be up and running, and we didn’t even try the one in the the lobby, what with the noise from the pervasive Christmas special TV and the guy checking out who was lawyering up about how he was going to contest his credit card charge.
Instead I’m borrowing the network connection in my folks’ room. What’s really fun is that it’s not even labeled as anything other than ‘cat5’ in tiny black-on-black letters. I’m re-routing the connection I’ve got via my wireless card so that my Wife can get on-line too.
We did stop number two of the Traveling Christmas Show last night (stop one was last weekend with the in-laws). The candle-lit service at Grandma’s church was kind of odd: fewer people than I’ve seen there in a long time, and not the usual cast of pastors and participants. Afterwards, we headed back to the hotel for a pool-side potluck buffet and gift exchange with some of the cousins who won’t be able to make it to tonight’s party.
Right now we’re working on the logistics of how to get two of our more elderly relatives to the party without any of the out-of-town drivers getting lost along the way…