Hi everyone,
We had some extra guests for Easter as Grandma & Grandad braved the upper deck of an A380 and crossed the Atlantic for some varied weather and of course wonderful company!
Ryan & Hannah were off school Easter week, but Jessica had taken too many flex days so had to work, this enabled us to go off to places she wanted to go such as the zoo which was busy enough that we parked right at the foot of the hill and made the mistake of going up the much steeper American trail instead of the main route past the car parks. The animals mostly co-operated with the exception of the clouded leopard who had decided to hide out somewhere in his heavily forested enclosure.
Other trips included the Udvar-Hazy space museum where Ryan found his Halloween costume - he's going as an R2D2 Mail Box. We made a couple of trips to Algonkian Park where Ryan got to throw Boo-Sticks in the river, and then some fool made a suggestion we walk to the play area.... lesson learned!
A random trip to Occoquan found us in an Easter event run by local stores, Jessica enjoyed casting her vote, especially as the final visit was to a wine store.
The visitors tolerated three cooked meals, lamb, slow cooked pork and a goodbye Turkey roast, I haven't heard from them since they returned but I guess any poisoning will be out of their system by now. We also managed to introduce Popeye's, get the huge salads from Potbelly's and take advantage of curbside service from Cheesecake Factory, much to the chagrin of Ms Howard who'd been bitching incessantly about her need for Five Guys, that was settled after the departure.
Next time they come, I'm ensuring they pack toilet rolls, I now have no chance of telling Jessica she uses too much, perhaps it was food related.........maybe they took it as a hotel and stocked up :)
As for the (near) funeral well that relates to Paul, regular readers will recall I spoke of his health issues last time, well he returned looking ill, but some of his obvious fatigue was blamed on a hectic trip back and a sign of the struggles he endured on vacation. But on Sunday he was worse, not even really enjoying a Pure Pasty delicacy, and Monday it was obvious he was in trouble. After refusing my advice he got lucky because I chose to be more of a pain in the ass for his sake, pressing Jessica into getting him to go to hospital where he found his infection was back, had spread to his lungs and within 6 hours of admittance was undergoing the first of two operations. The good news is he is now out (triggered by hopefully the final bad decision of a series of them) and though he's got a long way to go, finally the slope downhill has leveled out and the path to recovery is underway.
Till next time, when we'll assess just how much devastation Hannah has caused as she learns to become more mobile!
J,J,R & H.
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