Catching Up -- Denver!

It's been weeks already! We had a grand time in Denver, with great friends! We're thinking about a week in January next year, with a bit more pacing for skiiing and altitude.

We skied at Keystone and offer gratitude to the ski patrol for rescuing DD1 from her altitude sickness! We were also surprised to see friends from Virginia on the slopes!

Reading: Finished Voice of the Violin and left it for MA, along with Roccoco. Recently finished Small Giants. Now reading The Nordstrom Way.

Knitting is progressing slowly, other than hats!

Lafayette Memories

Life continues to be a whirlwind. Friday night, Katie and I went to see the Jonas Brothers at the Patriot Center. All was great except for the ( ...oh nevermind!).

Saturday we took a roadtrip to Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania, for a Field Hockey tournament. We arrived early and had time to look around campus. There were many memories of visits with Susan -- generally when Bucknell was playing Lafayette.

We arrived at the sports field in time for the conclusion of the Bucknell - Lafayette women's lax game. Watching the game was a bonus, but I didn't get to see the end, because I had a meeting in the parking lot. Phil of Santisi! He imports his cousin's oil and we sell it at Olio2go. I greatly enjoyed meeting Phil and trading stories. Thank to Phil we had dinner at Pizza d'Oro after a long afternoon of exciting field hockey. Carly's U16 Pegasus team came in 4th in the tournament, their first outdoor season of the year, and Carly's first tournament with college rules and carpet turf.

Tomorrow the girls and I head to Denver to spend a few days with MA and family!

But before I go, it's time to catch up on some reading. Anita Shreve's Body Surfing was phenonmenal! enthralling! I read it in two days, and if life was simpler, I would have read it in one. Another successful read was John Grisham's Playing for Pizza -- totally fun and another great experience in Italy.

Two I put down: Alice Sebold's The Almost Moon -- I was scarily captivated by The Lovely Bones, but I had no desire to go past the first chapter in The Almost Moon. Why do I want to read about someone suffocating her elderly mother? Another closed book: Doug Stumpf's Confessions of a Wall Street Shoeshine Boy. I can't read the vernacular. That causes me to suffer! I'm sure there's a lovely redemptionist story, but I won't be the one to read it. Improper grammar makes me cranky.