1/7/14 - The funeral was at 10:00am and was well attended.  Later in the afternoon, we went to visit a gentleman  (Perry Miller) that I learned had attended the same elementary classes that I did!! We had a nice visit.  Later, I had dinner with uncles and cousins at the Der Dutchman.  Attending were Allen, Connie, Paul, Martha, Val, Anna, Valerie, Grace, Luke and Neva.  We also had a nice visit.  It was good to see every one.  At times, I still can't believe that Leah is gone but from what I understand from the family, she had been in a lot of pain for sometime.

1/8/14 - Due to the bitter cold, we decided  to have lunch at the airport in Columbus.  We arrived at 1:35pm for a 2:57pm flight to Chicago.  We soon learned that we were delayed but not sure how long.  We went and had lunch.  We then finally got ready to board the flight when we learned that Chicago had closed the airport because of cold and blowing snow.  So they delayed the flight some more.  It was already 3 hours late and now we will not make the connection out of Chicago to Tampa.  We call American Airlines and got re-booked from Columbus to Miami and then Miami to Tampa.  We were now leaving at 6:05pm.  Now the Miami flight has been delayed and we have been informed that we would miss the connection to Tampa and would have to spend the night in Miami.  I got on the phone and got us a reservation for a motel room when we arrive.  Then at 6:00pm, the Chicago flight was finally boarded so we ran over to that gate to see if we could get back on that flight to then learn that Chicago airport was letting some flights land but no flights were leaving so we would have to spend the night either in Chicago or Miami.  All we could think about is to get to warmer weather and we just wanted to fly south so we finally left after 7:00pm for Miami.  We got into Miami and then decided to check and see if the last flight to Tampa had left and lo and behold, it was delayed by an hour so we ran to that gate and soon we had boarding passes for the flight to Tampa.  I then cancelled the motel room and we finally landed in Tampa at 12:15am and of course I had been in touch with my aunt and she did come and pick me up at 12:30am!!