Hail, Hail. . .The Gang's Almost All Here. . .

Our anniversary was quite busy and festive. We dropped Gracie off at Sharon's and then headed to the Belhurst Castle where we had our favorite private room, called the library. The traffic there was quite heavy - there was a wide-load truck that kept us traveling around 10mph for a while, and it was stop and go traffic. Yuck. I've never seen such traffic on Route 14 before. We traveled alone with the SUV because the plan was for Dorothy to drop off Emma, Greg, Brenda and Bode there and we were to bring them home with us. The reason for the Card Club celebration was Dayle and Daryl leaving us for the southlands. The little girl was Paula's granddaughter. She was good as gold. The buffet was quite scrumptious.
Our card club seems to be dwindling in size - due to other obligations and such.

Miss you, Greg and Noi. Poor Greg is still recovering from his leg accident and couldn't travel yet, so Brenan and Neenee arrived at Elmira Airport traveling via their unaccompanied minor service.

Greg said it took an hour to get them set to fly here with all the rigamarole needed. Paul, with picture ID, met them a little before 7 PM.

Brenda, Emma, Eric and Bode arrived earlier in the day. The Wimpies were delicious and fit the bill for no set mealtime. Paul even had a "snack" of them before bedtime.

Bode is so like Gracie. It's cute to watch them tumble and play. Bode is a little smaller than Gracie, but just as active and cute. I will get pictures up soon.

We offered the downstairs guest room to Brenan, as we thought he'd like to be alone. He declined as he preferred the Kids Kamp upstairs.

He didn't want to miss anything going on. So - upstairs, he is.