Zero Degrees In A Sunny Connecticut

Marisa, Our Granddaughter, School Ready

A Cold Darien At 7:47

We are all up around 6:45, Evie, as well as Marisa and Mitchell, who have school.  They are a bundle of energy early and Marisa, particularly, is driving Evie "nuts" who needs quiet in the morning with her coffee.  She is not going to get it.  It's overcast outside, lots of snow for this area, as they had no school on Monday because of a heavy snow fall.

A Thursday Morning Sunrise on Chautauqua Lake

We left Chautauqua yesterday as we planned at 8:00, just as the sun was painting the early morning sky, a reminder of what we were leaving behind for a week or so.  Grandchildren or sunsets? Grandchildren, always! We had hoped for an easy drive and it was, a few snow flurries at times, but the roads were fine. The first hour or two, one lane was snow covered, the other wet but the last five hours, the roads were dry, the sun even came out occasionally.  And the Catskills,  the picturesque thirty or forty mile drive along the Beaver Kill, a winding river, was disappointing, gray and a few snow flakes, the river frozen in places.  We stopped twice, once in Bath, NY,  for gas, right near Keuka Lake, where are nephew, Connor,  goes to college and his parents were going this weekend to visit.  And once more for gas, in the mountains, before our final leg to Darien, down Rt. 7 to Norwalk and the Merritt, the worst part of the drive because it seems endless and always has traffic.

We arrived as we thought at 4:00, greeted by Beth, Marisa and Mitch, the latter two home from school.  It was great to see them and as usual, I think Marisa is even taller than when I last saw her, at New Years.  The kids look great, happy that they have only one more day of school, then the weekend, then one more week of school, and winter vacation.

We relaxed until dinner, had our glass of wine, and then an easy dinner, what the kids asked for, my sister Linda's sloppy joes which we brought along frozen, thinking the kids would like it.  Marisa was tired, went to bed early, Mitch did his homework, and we watched the Cavaliers destroy the Clippers on TV.  We were both in bed by 10:15, having been up since 5:30.

Just got back from dropping Marisa off at the bus, taking Mitch to school at 7:30.  Rami returns late afternoon from a week long business trip.