Sheep Guarding Llama

We all bundled into the Acadia this morning and took Diana down to the train station so that she could go into the city.  Arael decided to stay back.  So after Diane took off we all went to the Westchester Diner and got some lunch.  The girls were begging for pancakes.  We had a nice breakfast, everyone really enjoyed it.

It was a pretty quiet afternoon at the house.  The girls played with Arael the whole time.  Diane didn’t spend a lot of time in the city and late afternoon I drove down to Croton-Harmon and picked her up.  They had to get on the road to drive back up to the north country so they could not stay for long.  It was pretty much straight back to the house, back the car and go.

We had a quiet Sunday evening at home.  Liesl and Luciana just cried and cried, they were so sad that Arael had left.  They love having her here.

Relaxing morning.  Spent a lot of it just hanging out in the living room.  Dominica worked with Diane on her MacBook doing technical support for several hours and we just visited.  Nice having time to catch up and a chance to just relax.  Arael kept the girls occupied so we saw very little of them.

In the early afternoon Dominica took Diane and Arael to the Peekskill train station and they took Metro North down into the city.  This is Arael’s first time in New York City.  They had a busy day around the Times Square area and in the evening they managed to go see Roger and Hammerstein’s revival of “Cinderella” which they said was amazing.

In the evening, late evening, I went down to Croton-Harmon station and picked them up.  They survived their first day in NYC.

It is Friday and today was a mostly normal day at work.  Long day but not bad or anything weird.  Had to work a little bit late this evening.  Got home before Diane and Arael arrived who were driving down from the Adirondacks.  They were in Albany before I left the office so were expected soon.

I got home, my gas mileage is now at 34.9MPG, I’m not sure if I have reported that yet.  So happy with how this car is handling the daily commute. It’s not fast or flashy but it is comfortable and cost effective.  I can’t believe how cheaply I can drive it all over.

Diane and Arael arrived not too long after I got home.  Liesl and Luciana were very excited that their older cousin was here.  They always have a great time together and see each other very seldom.

We all hung out for a while.  Not too late we put our girls to bed, they will be sleeping in our bed with us this weekend.  Then we left Arael at the house to babysit and Dominica, Diane and I went down the hill to the Peekskill Brewery for the evening.

We had a good evening at the brewery.  The beer is really excellent there and they have a huge selection.  Dominica loved it.  She has not been there in about five years.  We took Liesl there once for dinner when she was a few months old.  We even got a growler before we left.  That’s our new way to get beer.  So much better than getting a six pack.

Today was an interesting day for me.  I got to head into the office as normal this morning but was only there for half an hour at most before running out to another office site where I would be working for the rest of the day directly with another team.  I love these days, not because the work is more fun but only because the change of pace is so dramatic.

So I got to spend the entire day offsite in an office doing very different work that I normally do on a day to day basis and dealing with different people than I normally deal with.  This breaks up my week and almost feels like I had a day off from work.  None of the normal drudgery, even different views out of the windows.  Being an extrovert is handy, all it takes is a day in a different office with different people to talk to to make it seem like I completely had the day off.

Nothing too exciting to report today but it was a good day overall.

Some cleaning tonight as we have guests coming for the weekend tomorrow night.

Today is my long day at work because I am staying after normal hours to attend a seminar that I am very interested in that was rescheduled from a month ago due to the inclement weather that we had been having at the time.

Work was good and I got to leave the office a little early to go into Westport to go to the playhouse there.   It was a great layout with good food, desserts and drinks.  The seminar, about finding benefits from adversity, was really good.  I am glad that I went.

I did not get to leave Westport until nearly nine so it was about ten when I got home, just in time to put the girls to bed.  It was a very long day for me.