Jul. 27th, 2004 10:38 am
yes I'm back
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mizarchivistOhio survived.
Travel a non-issue both at Logan and the T this morning.
Let's see. . .
Friday evening:
The party was much smaller than I expected. No blood relatives aside from parents, a few friends from grade school, family friends. Very nice. Amy's kids are cling-ons. But hey, at least they like me.
Quiet Elegance's plane was delayed, then he took the long way around the city, so arrived at midnight.
Saturday- breakfast at Yours Truly's (good restaurant), then off to BG to see family there. Mother in law and Grandmother behaved. Brother and Sister in law same as ever. Nieces: Dayle (4) is very cute and wants as much attention as can be spared, Erin (1) has an earache and will be getting tubes later this week, so she was really not thrilled 99% of the time.
The picnic with MiL's sister and some of her clan was fine. 3 kids to play with Dayle. I'd never met any of these relatives before, so that was a bit amusing.
QE took me to "meet" his father at the cemetary down the road. A very nice field is around it and you can hear birds and the cars going by. It was, as expected, very sad but glad I went.
Sunday- Family pictures taken at Walmart. QE was very sporting on the whole issue, as he loathes getting his pictures taken. The girls behaved and we were out in half the time it took the group ahead of us to do their pictures. Lunch at Bob Evans, a trip to Meijer for some inexpensive clothes for both of us and a return to Mentor by dinnertime.
Amy and kids returned to chill for most of the evening, but her boyfriend never did make it. Too bad. He and QE could have talked about motorcycles and such. I ended up spending a bit of time labeling names and dates for some of mom's photos. None have ID on the back, or few- so I'll continue to work on that whenever I go back. If she and dad do make it for xmas, and drive, I'll see if she can't bring some for me to work on while they're here.
Monday's return- despite a mixup with craptastic computer generated driving dirctions to CAkron went w/out a hitch. Thanks to Caulay for meeting us there. Again: zero traffic. I hate our media, I really do.
Travel a non-issue both at Logan and the T this morning.
Let's see. . .
Friday evening:
The party was much smaller than I expected. No blood relatives aside from parents, a few friends from grade school, family friends. Very nice. Amy's kids are cling-ons. But hey, at least they like me.
Quiet Elegance's plane was delayed, then he took the long way around the city, so arrived at midnight.
Saturday- breakfast at Yours Truly's (good restaurant), then off to BG to see family there. Mother in law and Grandmother behaved. Brother and Sister in law same as ever. Nieces: Dayle (4) is very cute and wants as much attention as can be spared, Erin (1) has an earache and will be getting tubes later this week, so she was really not thrilled 99% of the time.
The picnic with MiL's sister and some of her clan was fine. 3 kids to play with Dayle. I'd never met any of these relatives before, so that was a bit amusing.
QE took me to "meet" his father at the cemetary down the road. A very nice field is around it and you can hear birds and the cars going by. It was, as expected, very sad but glad I went.
Sunday- Family pictures taken at Walmart. QE was very sporting on the whole issue, as he loathes getting his pictures taken. The girls behaved and we were out in half the time it took the group ahead of us to do their pictures. Lunch at Bob Evans, a trip to Meijer for some inexpensive clothes for both of us and a return to Mentor by dinnertime.
Amy and kids returned to chill for most of the evening, but her boyfriend never did make it. Too bad. He and QE could have talked about motorcycles and such. I ended up spending a bit of time labeling names and dates for some of mom's photos. None have ID on the back, or few- so I'll continue to work on that whenever I go back. If she and dad do make it for xmas, and drive, I'll see if she can't bring some for me to work on while they're here.
Monday's return- despite a mixup with craptastic computer generated driving dirctions to CAkron went w/out a hitch. Thanks to Caulay for meeting us there. Again: zero traffic. I hate our media, I really do.
