City Sidewalks

(Jenn)
Amy and Dave came yesterday from CT for a little Christmas visit. We are so glad they came, because they are the closest "family" we have here! We spent the day mostly exploring the Christmas sights of the city. We had plans to go ice skating, but apparently we didn't want to skate badly enough to wait in the horrific lines we saw. Instead, we just visited the skating rinks at Bryant Park and Rockefeller Center, seeing the other sights and shops along the way. We had lunch at Cosi and then dropped Amy and Dave off at their theater for Les Misérables.

When they got home from the show, we had a nice dinner at home and then spent the rest of the evening talking, laughing, singing duets, and playing games. Dave is a trooper for enduring all of our crazy reminiscing about high school, and adding what he could here and there. We really love Dave and are so glad Amy married him! We can't think of a couple we'd rather have living so close to us!

We were up until 1:00 in the morning playing Ticket to Ride, the Europe version, which was an awesome game (a gift from Ben's parents). This morning was pretty leisurely -- just talking in our pajamas for a long time before Amy and Dave left around 10:30. I'm really not ready to get back to real life. It has been so nice just to have Ben off work and home for a couple of days (it doesn't happen very often!). I have laundry waiting to be sorted and started in the bedroom, and I'm just trying to think of more things I can do instead of laundry right now. I always dread seeing the end of the holidays. I guess it's a good thing we still have this weekend at Kara's house and then New Year's Eve next week!