Boom, Crash

Exhaustion has set in big time so it's probably just as well that it is almost time for Carey, Sarah and John to head home. I'll be taking them to the airport tomorrow. Charlotte will probably come with to see Sarah off, especially since there has been and will not be any Sarah-Charlotte time today. They were together for almost 8 hours yesterday, as I sent John and Carey down to the National Gallery by themselves and took Sarah and Charlotte to the playground and then the library and then to Bread and Chocolate for bagels and cream cheese and lemonade before coming home, where they watched "The Babysitter Club" videos and drew and colored and then got Uncle Jimmy to put on Sarah's new Hilary Duff album so they could dance. When Jim, Carey and I left for dinner, John, Bill and Anja took them up to Los Lomida Dos for dinner.

We all slept very late this morning, and Sarah woke up crabby so we laid around most of the day until about 2 when she decided she had just enough energy for a brief bout of swimming with John. Jim ran them over to the Bethesda pool while I tidied, did some laundry, vacuuming and dishes. Needless to say, cleaning has been a little neglected, but was just getting to that over the top point that I can't bear. So, action had to be taken.

We will keep our plans to have a nice dinner at La Miche (http://www.lamiche.com/) tonight and Sarah will come with us. Last night, Carey, The Goofy One and I had a wonderful dinner at Argio's in Falls Church and we showed Carey the table from which we called her by cell phone last time. The concert at State Theater by The Radiators (http://theradiators.org/intro.htm) was enjoyable even though they were missing their lead guitar and vocalist. Of course we didn't get home until almost one, so....