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That "putative" trip I mentioned? Not so much.
Husband wasn't feeling much inspired, so last night, he checked his e-mail, looking for inspiration one way or t'other, such as someone saying "We really need to get together in Wisconsin to catch up." Turns out, the inspiration was his colleague whom he's supposed to be co-authoring a paper with saying, "When are we going to get this paper written? I'd really like to be able to put 'submitted for publication' on my tenure review paperwork."
I knew he was going to get into that "I haven't done any work this summer" phase when we got back--he has been spending all his time on the painting and flooring, after all--so this just moves that up a week.
I'll miss seeing the family, and seven-year-old isn't too happy at not seeing the cousins, but I'm also not losing another week of work time, so it's all good.
And I did have lots of fun this last week while the in-laws were here.
Went shopping with mother-in-law both Weds and Thurs. Got fluffy new towels, some grown-up looking glasses, some new shirts for hubby, birthday present for father-in-law (books, of course--first three of the Ranger's Apprentice series, The Ghost Brigades by Scalzi [he's previously read my copy of Old Man's War], and a Joe Haldeman), birthday presents for the child (Playmobil, dragon poster, books), a Little Black Dress for me, and stuff for birthday dinner (child wanted mini meatloaves) as well as frozen yogurt cake.
Friday, we went to Knoebels. Fun amusement park--no admission fee, reasonable prices on food, cool rides. (I loved the Phoenix roller coaster. Got off it still giggling.) Took the baby for a ride on a carousel horse. Went into the haunted mansion with hubby and seven-year-old. Lots of fun! We even found out we could take the dog, so next time, we might, so we don't have to worry about rushing home to feed him dinner.
Saturday, we did arboreta with treehouses: Tyler Arboretum and Longwood Gardens Much, much, much walking. In the heat. But very fun, and I want to go back, especially to Longwood (preferably when it's cooler). If we'd known they were having a Celtic music concert at Longwood in the evening, we would've left later and stayed longer.
We also ate out at a variety of places, from Mama Nina's Focacceria (lovely Italian seafood--I had the blackened tuna) to Cactus Blue (pretty good Mexican food). And we cooked shellfish for dinner twice--one night, mussels, the next, clams.
Oh, and the baby still belly-crawls more than real crawling, but has learned to sit up and can pull herself up to a stand when holding onto something as well.
A very good week overall.
Husband wasn't feeling much inspired, so last night, he checked his e-mail, looking for inspiration one way or t'other, such as someone saying "We really need to get together in Wisconsin to catch up." Turns out, the inspiration was his colleague whom he's supposed to be co-authoring a paper with saying, "When are we going to get this paper written? I'd really like to be able to put 'submitted for publication' on my tenure review paperwork."
I knew he was going to get into that "I haven't done any work this summer" phase when we got back--he has been spending all his time on the painting and flooring, after all--so this just moves that up a week.
I'll miss seeing the family, and seven-year-old isn't too happy at not seeing the cousins, but I'm also not losing another week of work time, so it's all good.
And I did have lots of fun this last week while the in-laws were here.
Went shopping with mother-in-law both Weds and Thurs. Got fluffy new towels, some grown-up looking glasses, some new shirts for hubby, birthday present for father-in-law (books, of course--first three of the Ranger's Apprentice series, The Ghost Brigades by Scalzi [he's previously read my copy of Old Man's War], and a Joe Haldeman), birthday presents for the child (Playmobil, dragon poster, books), a Little Black Dress for me, and stuff for birthday dinner (child wanted mini meatloaves) as well as frozen yogurt cake.
Friday, we went to Knoebels. Fun amusement park--no admission fee, reasonable prices on food, cool rides. (I loved the Phoenix roller coaster. Got off it still giggling.) Took the baby for a ride on a carousel horse. Went into the haunted mansion with hubby and seven-year-old. Lots of fun! We even found out we could take the dog, so next time, we might, so we don't have to worry about rushing home to feed him dinner.
Saturday, we did arboreta with treehouses: Tyler Arboretum and Longwood Gardens Much, much, much walking. In the heat. But very fun, and I want to go back, especially to Longwood (preferably when it's cooler). If we'd known they were having a Celtic music concert at Longwood in the evening, we would've left later and stayed longer.
We also ate out at a variety of places, from Mama Nina's Focacceria (lovely Italian seafood--I had the blackened tuna) to Cactus Blue (pretty good Mexican food). And we cooked shellfish for dinner twice--one night, mussels, the next, clams.
Oh, and the baby still belly-crawls more than real crawling, but has learned to sit up and can pull herself up to a stand when holding onto something as well.
A very good week overall.
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We've never been to Knoebels, though several people have told me it's fun. Mainly because it's far enough that doing a day trip seems daunting, and we are so not campers.
We did go Dorney last week (Thursday) and it was nice -- cloudy. Except when I went on that thing where you float around aimlessly on a tube in the water and my teeth started chattering because of the breeze.
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Yeah, Knoebels is a couple hours from here, and adds to my impression of "You can't get there from here" in Pennsylvania. At least not in anything resembling a direct path!
We haven't been to Dorney although relatively speaking, it's right next door. I imagine as the seven-year-old gets older (and the baby, too), that will change.
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Summer is pretty but very stinkin hot, as you now know. :)