Monday, August 21, 2006

Recollections and Admissions

I haven’t said much about my vacation that ended last week.  I had a great time.  It was a very low-key affair, but that’s exactly what I needed.  The weather was perfect and Zach got his first swimming pool experiences.  Even the flights were not much of a problem.  I’m so glad we went.  Here’s a few mental images that I particularly cherish:

* Kel’s folks having gotten me a box of booberry cereal all for myself.
* swimming with zack, both of us screaming with delight.
* staying up too late to watch All the President’s Men with Kel’s parents.
* going out to take photos downtown at dusk.
* garden-fresh tomatoes every morning with breakfast.
* helping Zach learn to go “up a dow” the stairs, for hours at a time.
* wearing only sandals for six days straight.
* reacquainting myself with the world’s most powerful showerbath.
* making a panzanella salad for lunch and impressing Kel’s grandmother
* flying home with Zach’s head in my lap.

And here’s a few visual ones:

Kel’s gradmother’s front-lawn madonna (with “mystery rosaries")

Kel’s dad’s classic:

on a walk near the river:

at a public grotto near the courthouse:

lunch:

dinner (actually, the pig ain’t what it was; we went with pizza l’oven and ricci’s, but I love the sign):

trestle over the susquehana:

a railtie from the trestlebridge:

and of course, one of the boy - this time, with grandpa:

and finally, the lie was: cutting class ("defending the faith").  thanks for playing.  see ya next year.