Tuesday night after the Cincinnati game we headed to Oxford, Ohio, the home of the beautiful Miami University, where we spent the night in the lovely Elms Hotel.  Had I known that I would end up majoring in Business instead of Engineering, this would have been a logical place to go to school.

We went to Oxford to visit Betty Hofmann, Ryan’s and Logan’s  other great grandmother along with my Mother, Virginia Howell.  Betty lives in a very nice retirement community which I thought to be a perfect place for my Mother also but my pitch has not yet met with success.

Then on to my hometown of Liberty Indiana where the boys had lunch with my old friend Dale Cummins (aka Debbie Cummins of Facebook) at Liberty’s finest eating establishment, El Reparo, and then a tour of the high school gym to see where I spent my “glory” days of the 20th century.  My thanks to Christine Rude and Connie Rosenberger for helping us visit my past.  We spent the night at my Mother’s in New Castle Indiana where she has resided since leaving Liberty in 1968.