Recent Adventures, Executive Summary
So....Carey and Sarah arrived on Wednesday, June 14, five and a half hours late, but safe and sound and in time for Sarah to make the Aly and A.J. concert with Charlotte and her crew. Carey and I took her over to the Warner Theater by cab, after we grabbed a bite at the Circle Cafe in Union Station, to meet them and then brought the luggage home by subway and subwayed back down to help Anja escort the five little girls home on the subway after the concert.
Thursday Sarah and Carey slept late and got settled in a bit, and Sarah and Charlotte played for most of the day. Charlotte stayed overnight night and Friday Carey and I took her and Sarah to Mount Vernon via the ferry from Old Town Alexandria. It was a beautiful day for an outing! And we had a fabulous time. Charlotte stayed overnight again.
Saturday the four of us went to see the Kirov Ballet at the Kennedy Center, dancing Giselle. Exquisite. Uncle Jimmy came home from the cabin late on Saturday night, surprising Sarah and Charlotte on Sunday morning and setting off a great round of the banana sticker game. In his absence, the little girls had been putting Dole stickers on things of his all around the house and as he found them they would squeal and run away and he would chase them and try to put the offending stickers on either them or something of theirs. After a big breakfast things settled down and the girls played quietly and then Bill took them to see the new kids movie, someting about cars, and later they all walked up the street to get ice cream and Uncle Jimmy and I went to dinner at The Green Papaya in Bethesda.
Monday a.m. I went to see my dentist to check out tooth pain I had been having since, of course, the day after the girls got here....turned out to be an abscess and so a large part of Monday was wasted trying to find a dentist on our insurance plan who could squeeze me in either Tuesday or Wednesday; finally got it all squared away but by then didn't have much of the day left which wasn't taken up with getting groceries and doing other errands. In the afternoon we also found out that our Aunt Carol Lynn, who had been in the hospital, had unexpectedly passed away. They are not sure yet why her blood pressure suddenly dropped and she just expired. Mother was devastated as is our uncle and cousin and much of the rest of the family. I called my uncle yesterday morning before my next dental appointment.
Tuesday we were all set for an outing to the Sewall-Belmont House, but Carey's phlebitis started acting up so instead we spent most of it in the Sibley emergency room. She's fine, no deep vein thrombosis, but has to take some more aggressive measures to prevent any worsening of the problem.
So, yesterday the new dentist, the endodontist, got started on my root canal, which I thought was going to be the end of it until I got back from Wisconsin but was surprised to learn was only the beginning so I had to make three more dental appointments for next week before we leave for Wisconsin. One darn thing...
Good news was that Charlotte got to stay home from camp so Sarah was happy to have her to hang around with, too, while all of this was happening, and John showed up safe and sound last night from his flight from Montana.
This morning we "girls" are off to see "Barbie Live in Fairytopia" at the Warner while he goes to the National Gallery of Art. We will meet him for lunch and then we will all, finally, get to the Sewall-Belmont House this afternoon.
Thursday Sarah and Carey slept late and got settled in a bit, and Sarah and Charlotte played for most of the day. Charlotte stayed overnight night and Friday Carey and I took her and Sarah to Mount Vernon via the ferry from Old Town Alexandria. It was a beautiful day for an outing! And we had a fabulous time. Charlotte stayed overnight again.
Saturday the four of us went to see the Kirov Ballet at the Kennedy Center, dancing Giselle. Exquisite. Uncle Jimmy came home from the cabin late on Saturday night, surprising Sarah and Charlotte on Sunday morning and setting off a great round of the banana sticker game. In his absence, the little girls had been putting Dole stickers on things of his all around the house and as he found them they would squeal and run away and he would chase them and try to put the offending stickers on either them or something of theirs. After a big breakfast things settled down and the girls played quietly and then Bill took them to see the new kids movie, someting about cars, and later they all walked up the street to get ice cream and Uncle Jimmy and I went to dinner at The Green Papaya in Bethesda.
Monday a.m. I went to see my dentist to check out tooth pain I had been having since, of course, the day after the girls got here....turned out to be an abscess and so a large part of Monday was wasted trying to find a dentist on our insurance plan who could squeeze me in either Tuesday or Wednesday; finally got it all squared away but by then didn't have much of the day left which wasn't taken up with getting groceries and doing other errands. In the afternoon we also found out that our Aunt Carol Lynn, who had been in the hospital, had unexpectedly passed away. They are not sure yet why her blood pressure suddenly dropped and she just expired. Mother was devastated as is our uncle and cousin and much of the rest of the family. I called my uncle yesterday morning before my next dental appointment.
Tuesday we were all set for an outing to the Sewall-Belmont House, but Carey's phlebitis started acting up so instead we spent most of it in the Sibley emergency room. She's fine, no deep vein thrombosis, but has to take some more aggressive measures to prevent any worsening of the problem.
So, yesterday the new dentist, the endodontist, got started on my root canal, which I thought was going to be the end of it until I got back from Wisconsin but was surprised to learn was only the beginning so I had to make three more dental appointments for next week before we leave for Wisconsin. One darn thing...
Good news was that Charlotte got to stay home from camp so Sarah was happy to have her to hang around with, too, while all of this was happening, and John showed up safe and sound last night from his flight from Montana.
This morning we "girls" are off to see "Barbie Live in Fairytopia" at the Warner while he goes to the National Gallery of Art. We will meet him for lunch and then we will all, finally, get to the Sewall-Belmont House this afternoon.
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