Heading Back to Lake Chautauqua

At Marisa's soccer game with Fox News Gretchen Carlson in Purple Jacket

Our Favorite Newscaster, Fox's Gretchen Carlson, up Close in Greenwich, CT

With Hasan Teoman,  our good friend from Turkey

Brunch at Albarrans with Hasan Teoman

We had a busy Sunday, Rami and I off to the store early to pick up goodies for our brunch with Hasan at 11:00.  It took more time than I thought to get ready for a not so simple brunch, especially for Beth and Evie, but he really enjoyed it and it was nice.  He is in Greenwich, visiting a friend who is quite sick, so it was a nice break for him to come over for a couple of hours.  We enjoyed talking about Turkey, catching up on our  friends and his travels, and he is a lot of fun to talk with, interesting because he travels so much and knows what's going on in Europe as well as the Middle East.  He left about 2:00 and said he would meet us at Marisa's soccer game in Greenwich, since that's where his friend lived.  And indeed, he and his friend's wife came and stayed for most of the game.  She is an artist and interior designer in Greenwich, has done many things for Hasan's house in Gocek and runs the Lillian Vernon furniture store in Greenwich.  The three, Beth, Evie, and Catherine, spent most of the game talking, while Hasan and I got caught up on each others lives over the past two years.  Hasan had quadruple by pass surgery a year ago, so he had lots more to talk about, but he seem fit, aware of eating healthy and exercising, so it some ways, this was a real wake up call for him.

We came home from the game, which Marisa's team won, and Rami was putting up all the Halloween decorations, quite an ordeal but really cool in the end.  We had take-out Chinese for dinner, put Marisa to bed and then all of us watched the last hour of Little Miss Sunshine, laughing ourselves sick, especially towards the end.  We were all tired so all of us were upstairs by 10:30, after watching the boys favorite show, The Living Dead, a new series last year where zombies have taken over the earth and there are only a few survivors left, whose lives we follow.