Wednesday march 5th

Dear Family,

I guess no one really wants to hear the gorey details but I have been sick the past 3 days, withering away on my couch, watching my TIVO with Oprah- I had 12 episodes to catch up on. Just me and Oprah and some honey water for rehydration.

Kay is back in Omaha and took his Nephew Ben Lusk. Ben returned home from Moscow Russia mission for the LDS church less than 2 weeks ago. What a cute guy he is. Kay all the sudden has seen the missionaries in Omaha and we called the mission office to offer a free apartment to the missionaries. They will come over on Friday to look, and need an apartment in the area so that is pretty exciting. Kay has offered many times but his apartments were in bad areas or they all ready had free housing so we hope they will take us up on this. We just happen to get blessings when we help the missionaries.

Kay asked me to call the Institute to see if Ben could take a religion class. They have lots of social events for young adults. I was talking to the director and mentioned my daughter lived there, he asked who she was. I said she had only been there less than 4 years so he probably wouldn't know her. He pressed me and he didn't know her. He asked if her husband was Seth, "everyone knows Seth." "The Real Estate Mogul of Omaha." The director knew what kind of truck Seth drove and what he was doing but admitted he had only met him once. Small world.

Caleb has called me to ask questions as he is putting his papers in soon for his mission. We are pretty excited about this great experience for him. He got to write where his parents and grandparents served, My parents made him look very global.

We signed up for a Christmas cruise- 17 day transatlantic from Genoa Italy to Florida on MSC Dec 16-Jan 2. This will be Jana's make up cruise (the niece who missed her flight because of a "series of unfortunate events".) It doesn't have kids programs but they have a hang out place for teens, Janell will be 17 and Jana 16. We ended up booking 1 room with a balcony when they told us kids under 17 were free instead of two inside rooms, saving us money (our favorite thing to do). This is a European cruise, a new experience for us. Love, Janae