Once More To The Lake

Three Sisters. Pre Wedding

French Fries at Fairway

My Sister in Law, Claire, Relaxes After A Busy Day

Up at 6:00 because we want to be off for Chautauqua by 7:00, hoping to avoid some school day traffic.  It looks like a nice day as I peer through the windows and tree branches.  House is quiet, Cody is sleeping next to me, hardly moved when I came down.  The coffee is made, bags are packed, and we will be ready for take off, in our car, in a half hour or so.  We have had a great stay here, just the right amount of time.

The Great Grandmothers

Yesterday, we left Long Island around 8:15, had an easy ride on the Long Island Expressway, no traffic jams, no stoppages, so we made it to Darien by 9:40.  Everyone was up except for the boys, of course, and Beth and Evie immediately went off shopping, finishing off the things Marisa needs for the start of school, quite a list and very specific, for example, a certain kind of writing notebook that Beth cannot find.  They did stop at my favorite bagel place, so when they got home, everyone was up, ready for a bagel.  Rami had just gotten back from a 35 mile bike ride, so he was really hungry.

After breakfast, we went off to Costco, a typical Sunday morning excursion for Rami, getting all the essentials for the week and both Evie and I like to go along.  We don't buy much, just four different cheeses this time but it's fun to look.  It was packed with people, the chapel of choice for the shoppers on a Sunday and I would say half of the shoppers were Hispanic, surprising for this area unless you know it, I guess.  Both Stamford and Norwalk have large Hispanic communities, not so Darien.  We didn't do much during the afternoon, played some games, watched some TV but around 3:30, Marisa said she want to go get french fries at Fairway, our favorite grocery store.  So off we went, tasting the olive oils, cheeses, before getting a basket of their freshly made fries, more than enough for the three of us.  When we got home, Beth, Rami and Tyler had left for Greenwich, where a family was having a gathering for all the Dartmouth freshmen in the area.  While we were out, Mitch was off skate boarding with buddies, happily, as they had been on vacation for a week, so he had no one but me to board with.

My College Bound Grandson, Tyler  posing as" Walter White'  from Breaking Bad

For dinner, we bought deep dish pizzas from Costco and with a salad, that's all we needed as we were still full of fries.  After dinner, we packed up the car, got things ready for an early start tomorrow.  Beth, Rami, and Tyler returned home about 8:00, had a good time at the Dartmouth party.  They were ravenous so the rest of the deep dish pizza disappeared quickly.  Marisa went to bed early, around 8:30, as school starts tomorrow.  She has all her books, notebooks, and pencils ready, took a shower, did her hair and is ready to go.  Hers is the only class in the school that cannot wear flip flops (to dangerous according to her teacher) so she got a new pair of blue Chuck Taylor low cuts and she loves them.  We were all in bed by 10:30.