Meeting people in SGP…

So I’ve been geocaching and I looked in SGP to find geocaches and listed among the items is a party on the beach! So we’re going and people have already emailed me and encouraged us to attend. I’m pretty excited, I’ve already told Vince. He jumped up and down on the bed to so his pleasure.

Vince went to school all day today and even took a nap. The time at school allowed us to sort the rooms. We’ve done a pretty good job of putting everything we need in SGP in the guest room. Went to Goodwill today and dropped off a load of stuff, mailed a box of baby gear to Ben and Johanna in Sweden. There is still a lot left to do, including laundry and more sorting.

Big night in NYC! 10 years of Doris and Jeremy,

So Jeremy and I have been together 10 years this month and to celebrate, we went to NYC overnight without the kiddos! Bob and Katherine kindly agreed to watch Vince and Edda for 24 hours and we headed into the city to have some fun.

Vince did great and loved the sleepover, Edda had a cold and was pretty fussy the whole time. Bob and Katherine didn’t get much sleep last night….

Since we don’t really know how to have fun in the traditional NYC way, we had Emily as our tour guide. Is it weird that my sisten-in-law was with us on our date? No way, it made the night a lot of fun.

So our train was late, so we got to the city at 4pm and took a cab to the Metropolitan Museum. All weekend, we only took cabs, what a luxury! Spent a few hours in the museum and then headed across Central Park to Bob and Katherine’s apartment. In Central Park, I looked for a geocache and to my delight, there were other people looking as well, it was my first time meeting other geocachers. We found the geocache and I signed the log and we headed to the apartment…

Then we called Emy and agreed to meet her after work in the meatpacking district. Our evening was to be within 2 blocks of her hotel. We first had drinks and appetizers at Highline, a Thai place. This was really funny because the place looks like it came right out of Sex and the City. We sat on beds in the middle of the restaurant and had some drinks.

Then we headed to a Cuban place for dinner… Waited about 1.5 hours before we were seated, but it was just fun with Jeremy and Emy. We watched our table given away by the owner to friends of his and the hostess was really apologetic, so we kept waiting. Had more drinks… Getting a little more tipsy… There was a band and people were dancing. I got a kiss on the head by a patron I smiled at and the waiter was cute! It was so loud and everyone was dressed up for a night on the town in sparkly tank tops.

We headed back to the apartment to crash and then back home this morning to pick up the kids.


Emy and Jeremy in the meatpacking district in NYC. How hilarious is this? We are sitting on queen sized beds in the middle of the restaurant. Emy is enjoying a passion-fruit martini, Jeremy has a beer and I am drinking a mojito.

This was a fast week!

The week is over and we are closer than ever to moving to SGP.

Vince’s daycare agreed to extend his care until 4 pm next week on MWF which will give us more time to sort our stuff and have him happily entertained on Wed when the packers are here to do their work. We’ve been talking about buying a lunch box for him and what he wants to bring for lunch. Also, he’s going to have nap time at school as well. He actually want to go to Target right now to get his lunch box.

I spoke with Christine Smith today for a long time and arranged for an outing on Tuesday with the kids. Seems that things are going well with her, Jonathan just got back from three weeks in Germany. Now that her youngest, Dakota is in the first grade, she’s thinking about going to the Culinary Institute of America for cooking school, which is very exciting.

Vince has been learning to count. Usually, the order is one, two, three, four, five, six, fourteen, sixteen, fourteen, sixteen, eleventeen. Today he finally told me that eleventeen is not a number.

Back to DC

I am going back to DC to pick up the car tags and Vincent’s pictures. Also, mow the lawn, wash the Master’s bedroom bed spreads and check out the ants problem. Get the house ready for our friends with their relatives to stay in about 10 days starting next Tuesday. Hope the lump in one of their relative’s lungs is benign.

Also will help to pressure-wash the deck of our friend at Softwind Drive. In the meantime, I will ask him some questions about the structural analysis. He is a civil engineer and has more advanced knowledge on this than me. He is really good, with a lot of experience. These days, I have asked him numerous times over the phones and in his house on this subject.

Will be back to Pittsburg tomorrow’s afternoon and look forward to seeing Mom next weekend.

Progress on moving to SGP.

Things are moving along…. We got our contract signed, the apartment lease is cancelled, our NYTimes subscription is cancelled, lots of things are happening.

I went to the post office today to mail some things (one thing for mom, it might take a few weeks to get there, I mailed it media mail) and I was really worried about mailing a rather large package to France. I had bought a nice bowl for Cindy and Patrice and the box turned out too large to take with us on the plane, so I had decided to mail it. I was worried that I might pay more to ship it than it cost to purchase it, but it was only $20 to mail. That was nice.

We had a wonderful afternoon, Ormere invited us over to their house for lunch (nuggets and corn, yum!) and she, her two boys Sammy and Michael and another mom, Tara and her son Ethan went to the Cold Spring park together. Its a really nice park, totally fenced in and lots of toys to play with. Vince and Edda had a nice time, although we had to leave before Ormere and Tara because Vince was really tired and couldn’t negotiate the playground politics.

We picked up Jeremy from work and finally Vince fell asleep at 5 pm which is why he’s up at 10 pm. Ran a bunch of errands, library to donate books, Babies R Us to return a crappy baby product and then to the Fed Ex office to pick up our immigration papers.