Last week with family from Down Under

After 3 all-over-the-place weeks, Susan & Gerry - as well as Dylan & I! - hoped for a more chilled last week for their visit. We stayed around here, mostly, and sightsaw. Sight-saw? Is is sight-see-ed? Did some sightseeing. There.

They got to see the Causeway, the longest bridge in the world at 24miles.

 They got to take Paul on the train in City Park.

They got to visit the sculpture garden & museum in City Park.

The trip to City Park included, of course, some play on the playground and beignets at Morning Call.

They treated us to a swamp boat tour, and Paul (and everyone...) got to hold a baby alligator.

And, finally, they got to celebrate the 4th of July in the USA, complete with hot dogs, mac-n-cheese, fried chicken & watermelon ... and a fireworks display with the best view!

Our last half-day together was spent having breakfast at the corner café, Tout de Suite, before heading out to the airport ... & more beignets. (Which were surprisingly delicious! West Café near the Delta check-in counter. Seriously.) And so ends another wonderful few weeks spent together, each visit more special than the last now that Paul is so aware of people, his people, and things happening around him.

Since good-bye-ing at the airport, we've kind of stared vacantly around, wondering where to begin / what to do now? And I've, wait, what was it? - COOKED! I've got to get into cooking 7+ square meals a week again. It feels like it's been since before Adeline was born since I've done so, really, what with 10 weeks of meal help after her birth, freezer meals previously cooked, then the move, and now 4 weeks of vacationing. I took a cue from Carrots for Michaelmas and celebrated the feast day of St. Maria Goretti, and I plan to catch up on all of the saints' feast days we missed during our whirlwind. I knew there was a reason I bought the book.