Back to Rochester

After packing and settling up at the B&B, we bought bagels (number 7 on the New York state Major Food Group list) to take to Molly's for a farewell breakfast. When we got there, we found Iris had been kept home as she wasn't feeling well. Actually, she seemed to be feeling fine but she'd had a bit of a tummy upset during the night.

We took our leave reluctantly. It had been so good to spend so much time with Molly, Mark, and the children. But we were well prepared for the drive to Rochester as Mark had loaned us his copy of Dave Barry's Bad Songs book for me to read aloud to Don. He also had given us a photocopy of an excerpt from a book by Linda Ellerbee just in case. I read them both aloud in their entirety as Don drove and they were entertaining and sometimes hilarious.

The drive to Rochester was easy and the read-alouds helped make the trip seem shorter. We stopped at a diner for good ole American cheeseburgers and french fries made from sweet potatoes, which were delicious. The weather had turned cooler and a bit rainy. In fact, on Thursday in Albany it had been humid and in the mid-60s which felt quite warm, so much so that I had to borrow a short-sleeved tee-shirt from Molly. In the evening, we had to open three of the downstairs windows!

Back at Jill's we had some one-on-one time with Jill before the boys came home from school. Later, we enjoyed playing ping-pong in the basement with Tom and Kevin. Tom was sporting a mouthful of new braces which we're sure will get real old real fast, poor kid (especially tough for a trumper-player).

For dinner we had take-out pizza and wings. Many of you may remember that our son-in-law Julius used to own and operate a pizza business in the 90s. He had devised a special sauce for sweet and sour fried chicken wings that I am just crazy about. Fortunately, there is still a pizzeria not far away that sells them. They aren't quite as good as those Julius made but close enough for me. Don pigged out on pepperoni pizza. (Dinner took care of numbers 8 and 9 on the New York State food list.)