Good afternoon all.  Still trying to get things ready for our company.  My FIL called this morning and I assumed he was calling to tell me they would be here today - luckily that wasn&#39;t the case.  My MIL&#39;s 75th birthday is in Oct. and he wants all kids, grandkids and great grandkids present and accounted for.  We normally stay with them but as he wants everything to be a surprise, I booked 3 rooms at a hotel.  There is only 1 nice hotel, which is a Best Western in the town they live in.  There are several hotels but most look like places I would not stay in.  Both of my sons live with their girlfriends and so they could not stay with relatives anyway (well, not in the same room) so I booked rooms for each of them too.  I got a &quot;yes&quot; from the oldest - he will be taking the munchkin and also his fiance&#39; and her daughter, but the youngest isn&#39;t sure yet.  I will have grandpa work on him once they arrive in a couple of days.  Ed, your security measures sound like ours, except there are several loaded handgun - one being a 9 mm.  An added measure is that Bucky and Sadie go beserk if anyone gets within 10 ft. of the house, so we would have advance warning.  The circus is coming again in Oct.  You may remember that we took Scotty last year.  I got an email that said that tickets were available for pre-sale now - they go on sale to the public in 2 weeks.  Anyway, Greg and I talked about it and decided to go with the most expensive tickets.  Last year, we paid a total of &#036;216 for the 3 tickets so that Scotty could sit on the front row.  Well, we didn&#39;t know about the Circus Celebirty tickets until we got there.  You can pay more and then you get to go out onto the floor and ride the circus train around the arena during the show, with the clowns.  They were &#036;82 per ticket and then of course TicketMasters charges you all kinds of fees, so it came out to &#036;289 for the 3 tickets.  I thought about taking Annabelle (my soon to be granddaughter) too but she just turned 3 and I don&#39;t think she could sit there for 2 1/2 hours.  Scotty was excited when we told him we were going to get tickets - not going to tell him about the Circus Celebity status until we get there.  Well, guess I had better go get Greg&#39;s dinner started.  Talk to you all later....