Felix is home! Edda has a day program!

We flew back on Friday night to National from Missoula via Chicago. I don’t think I’ve ever flown into an airport on Friday night. It is a party happenin’ – people picking up friends, taking their time, music blaring – lots of Hiiiii giiiirrrlll! Interesting. Anyways, we got home very late.

Saturday we tried to pull the house together in some way, jetlagged and then starting on Sunday, we had festivities starting to say goodbye to Felix.

We went to weightlifting on Sunday morning where I practiced my lifts for my meet in two weeks. What the hell? I’m just hoping for clean lifts at any weight now. I’m not going to be able to practice very much between now and then, so it’s going to be what it is. Everyone at the gym is so excited for me, and in turn, I’m excited for myself. If a little nervous. I found a brand new singlet on ebay for 21 dollars – retail $150 baby! I’m ready. Felix came, though slightly injured and didn’t lift. I really hopes he finds a coach in Sweden, he’s a natural. Thomas (the guy in the green) is leaving for college in Florida as well. Thomas’s mom baked cookies for all of us. Yummy! This is the nicest gym ever, really.

Sunday night, we went to Sunday night dinner which was HILARIOUS. Sometimes they are and sometimes not, but I’m glad this one was. Chris was there too and it’s his last Sunday night dinner too. So here’s a good-bye photo too!

Monday morning, I dropped Edda off at her adult day program. I spent about an hour talking to them, doing some paperwork and telling them about Edda and she had a great first day! There were a number of friends from school and life that we were able to reconnect with. That was a lot of fun. It’s in a beautiful location surrounded by woods.

Then it was time to say goodbye to Felix. As I told him and his parents, I’m so proud of him. Though it was a slow start, he completely knocked it out of the park for his stay in the US. He made about $8K, way more than I thought he would and made friends and became very, very tan. He got health insurance and he got his driver’s license. All great things.

Jeremy is swamped at work, so I dropped him off at National and we shared donuts and blueberry muffins from Dunkin’ before he headed to security and I made sure he got through and we waved ferociously at each other from far away when things were cleared.

To celebrate Edda’s first day and Felix’s return home, I invited Megan over for dinner and to do a real celebration, we all went out for ice cream. Elka came too – she wouldn’t miss it. And we christened the new car with her dusty paw prints. We were going to go to Carmen’s, but it was closed to give the workers a day of rest, so we headed to ben and Jerry’s.

Hooray for ice cream!