Bye Bye Miss American Pie

Some Of The Albarran Family 

It's just after 6:00, I have my coffee, the house is beginning to stir, and we are heading home after two weeks on the road, in Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine and Connecticut, staying with friends, B & B's, and family, a great fortnight on the road.

Marisa Cruises

A Man And Someone Else's Dog (pix by Marisa Albarran)

After a great breakfast, chocolate croissants, from Costco of course, eggs, and bacon,  Marisa and I took Cody for a walk in the crisp fall air.  It was just too nice of a day to stay inside and Cody loves to take a walk.  Marisa has a new bike, loves riding it, and likes to do tricks, as you can see.  While we were out, Beth was busy knitting or crocheting head bands, for us to take back to the lake. Mitchell was studying and Rami was cleaning up four terabytes of memory on his computer and external hard drives.  He has lots and lots of photos.

Around 12:30, Rami and Marisa went biking, with Cody this time.  He came back exhausted, curled up on the floor and has hardly move the rest of the afternoon.  We munched on leftovers for lunch, before Rami drove Marisa early to her soccer game.

Taking A Reluctant Cody For A Walk

At 2:00, we went of to watch Marisa play soccer, about tent minutes away fortunately.  It was surprisingly cool, with gusts of wind and though Marisa's team lost, it was fun to watch  her play.  The  field was surrounded by trees still filled with leaves, most still green, unlike the at Chautauqua Lake, where I am sure all the leaves are off the trees.

Marisa, #2, Going for the Ball

Number 2 On The Field, Number 1 In Our Hearts

We took a few pictures late afternoon, just before putting the pork roast on the grill.  And watched the Pittsburgh Steelers play, as they are Rami's favorite team.  It was a fun game to watch, lots of scoring as the pork slow cooked on the grill, as we watched the temperature rise on Rami's iPhone app which connects with the meat thermometer.  What a world...we don't even have to get up off the couch any more to check the grill till the meat's ready.  Beth made a rice pilav to go along with the pork and Evie put together a salad.  We didn't eat till about 7:00, and it was pitch black outside as it gets dark so much earlier here on the East Coast.

We finished off the remnants of three bottles of wine, as we enjoyed out dinner.  We told the kids stories about the old days of putzs at Reserve, where the students played tricks on the faculty, like taking the Headmaster's MG and moving it into the hallway of the main school building.  They were funny as long as there was no great harm, but that didn't always happen.  We all helped with the dishes, so we could get back to the Steelers, to crocheting, and playing on our iPads, that is all of us except Mitch who was upstairs studying for a math test.  Marisa went up to bed with Evie around  8:30, seemingly not tired from playing an entire soccer game and two hours of Irish dancing. Ah youth.  We hope to be off by 7:00 tomorrow so we are planning to be in bed by 10:30.

Zeus In A Flannel Shirt