It was another busy week for the Krewe. Qacei was here (see her blog for a few fabulous photos), and the girls had a blast together.
On Wednesday, we resumed our STUN activities with a trip to the bowling alley. That was really fun. Hunter scored his personal best in the second game, busting the 100 ceiling wide open, and MJ, Chloe, and Qacei had lots of silly fun bowling left-handed, naming their lucky bowling ball (Spot, natch), and dragging out the game by sharing said named ball. Logan, who was sharing their lane, put up with their shenanigans like the good sport that he is.
The guys spent the night, went home Thursday, and then returned Friday to help Chloe celebrate her birthday. Why we bothered to send them home, I can't tell you.
Before they arrived, the birthday girl took her sister-types to Romio's for Italian food, and then to Tampico for Mexican dessert and virgin strawberry margaritas. Sounds like they had a tasty excursion.
I spent most of Friday evening playing with my niece, Lila, who is almost one and a half. It was fun—we spent lots of time visiting the "babies" (the rats)—but I was reminded why I had my little ones over a decade ago when she wouldn't let me put her down all night. Phew! Gave me some sore kid-hauling muscles to go with my sore bowling muscles.
The teens spent most of Friday night—no, scratch that, they spent all of Friday night having a Buffy the Vampire Slayer marathon. Hunter and Logan went from sleepless night to all-day SCA event. I talked to their mom, Michelle, today and heard that it didn't stop Logan from taking the championship in his swordplay event. Way to go, Logan!
On Saturday, we drove down to Castle Rock, met up with Zenmomma, and made the Qacei exchange. Aside from the usual clogging over the ship canal, it was a painless drive and a nice way to wind down from our Social Season.
Yesterday, we all collapsed. Chloe and MJ have been continuing their Slayer marathon, with only a brief break to sign up for Not Back to School Camp. I read most of the day—rare treat! And Frank pampered his girlie wife by taking care of some MR2 maintenance for me. I got to drive to work with fresh wiper blades today! Hurray!
Finally, we have finalized our return trip from Ireland. We elected to stay the extra days. Is anybody shocked?
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2 comments:
Fun. All of it :)
And I'm so excited for you and your Ireland trip! I loved it over there. Where are you going to be? All over? or staying in a particular area?
We stayed a few days in Dublin and then a few days in the Limerick area.
Of course, for me, Dublin was too busy. Loved all the stuff but as we were walking down the walkways I felt like I had to have a blinker to try and get where I needed to go. *g* We were there in high tourist season, mid-July. Now, the rural areas...*sigh* I didn't want to leave.
Not to answer for Ronnie, but...
We're staying here for a week: http://www.warrenfarmireland.com/granary_cottage.htm
We'll be doing daytrips all around. I have an ancestral cottage (or ruins, anyway) on Achill Island to visit and we'll probably spend a coupla days in Dublin for siteseeing combined with airport convenience.
I'm very excited.
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