13th District Grand High Priest's Reception, Athens, OH

Rain! Rain! and more Rain!  Well we left Findley and got as far as Delaware before Mother Nature tried once again to drowned us.  We had one storm after another all the way to just a few miles from Athens.  The first one in Delaware was bad enough to have more cars on the shoulder than on the highway.

There is a antique and craft mall on Route 33 about 30 miles from Athens.   Every time Julia and I have went to Athens, we have stopped.    It is kind of fun looking a antiques and some real nice craft articles.  Usually we spend about and hour or two here then its on to Athens. Oh, and by the way it was still raining hard.

As luck would have it the rain stopped before we got to Athens so at least we got in the building without getting soaked.  To say that the Athen's Masonic Temple is nice would be and insult.   It is extremely nice as the picture of the dining room shows.

Dinner was a nice salad, baked potato, grilled steak and strawberry shortcake.   Not a bad meal at all.  The steaks were tender and the baked potato hot.  It was a very nice dinner.



After dinner the District Awards were handed out as usual but here the District Deputy, Lee Peterson, gives out some Certificates of Appreciation to Companions that helped him throughout the year.  It is a very nice touch.

I did not take many picture as two Companions were taking a lot of them.   Thanks to email I had them before  Julia and I got home last night.  Here are just a few of them.

It sure is nice to see young people at a Chapter meeting.

 REC Peterson is starting to give out awards.

 What strange thing do you see in this picture?  Look at the Lady's feet.  Here the server is exempt from the "No Shirt, No shoes, No service" rule.  I was kidding her after the meeting and she said her feet hurt and her shoes were giving her a blister.  Considering how good the food was and how hard she was working I think she deserved to be comfortable.   Forget the shoes and thank you for the meal.

Julia is given a certificate that states a donation has been made to the Western Reserve Masonic Community's dementia fund.  

She thanks the district for that donation.

Another great night of good food and warm fellowship.




Now the going home story.   We got as far as the Delaware/Sunbury exit on I-71 north before the RAIN came again.   We had rain almost the entire way to Medina.   Some of it was really hard and some of it was just annoying but it was still RAIN.  Any way we got home safe and sound, and dry.

'til the next time.