Weekend of June 29-30

Picked up Mary Ann on Thursday night. Bit of a disaster as she was due to fly into Newark landing at 10pm. I had farewell drinks in New York so was planning to go to those and pick her up at Newark on my way home. Unfortunately, due to weather her plane was canceled. She was able to get on a standby flight - she was last person allowed out of O'Hare destined for the North East that night. She flew into Phillie and landed about 1.15am.

All is well that ends well, so we finally got home about 2.30am.

Friday morning I had to get up early to go back to the eye doctor after the LASIK surgery. He was very pleased and has given me the all clear. I have to go back in a month.

Later that morning we went to look at a couple of wedding venues. We saw one we really liked so that is high on the list.

Picked up the boys around 3pm and drove up to a friend of Mary Ann's (Sue, her husband Chris and baby Alex) who has a house up in Pawling, which is about 1 1/2 hrs north of New York.

Beautiful house with a lovely deck, swimming pool and spa pool.

Boys had a blast there over the weekend.

The whole weekend seemed to consist of swimming, eating, going into the spa and then back out swimming.

I did manage to spray about 8 hornet nests while I was there as I hate hornets.

Sneaked in 9 holes of golf on Saturday afternoon with Chris. He is also a huge Blackadder fan, had the entire series so we watched some of those. He also had Dish TV and had a cricket package so I was in heaven watching one-day cricket for parts of the weekend.

We left about 3pm Sunday and drove back to Princeton.

Mary Ann had Monday off work so she hung around the house while I did work on the computer. We went for a nice lunch and then in the evening a lovely 4 mile run along the canal.

Dropping her at Newark tomorrow for her flight back to Chicago.

Photos of the weekend are attached.

Pawling - New York