The New Year
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We've had a quiet time between Christmas and New Year's day watching movies and playing board games. We did venture out of the house for a short bike ride with Kitty and went into DC to see the Shakespeare Theatre Company's brilliant production of Twelfth Night. We managed to offset any culture gained by playing Raving Rabbids TV party and watching Bolt in 3d at the cinema.
We went round to Roger and Lynn's on New Year's eve and didn't get to bed until about 5 in the morning. We did have great fun playing Sculptorades, Crokinole, table football as well as some quiz games and even finding time to eat and drink.
Helen has become addicted to Wii fit and has unlocked all the exercises and games, I'm lagging a bit but hope to be back on the programme once I get back to work.
In the new year we went to the American History museum, which didn't seem to have many exhibits and at least one factual error; they had Barack Obama on a list of US presidents even though he won't be inaugurated until 20 Jan.
After that we went back to the theatre to join a discussion on the production of Twelfth Night. We did contribute to the discussion even though the other participants may not have understood what we were saying. We kept up the cultural theme by going to the Hard Times Cafe for Chili and then to Tiffany's Tavern to introduce Kitty to the experience that is live Bluegrass. To recover we went to Denny's for breakfast and then walked round Huntley Meadows Park to see if we could spot any beavers. We did see half a dozen deer, some squirrels and signs of beavers, but no beavers.
Monday was Kitty's last day in the US and I took her to see our chiropractor who spent 90 minutes adjusting her spine and it must have done her good as she looked quite different afterward. Then after a casual lunch and one last slice of Christmas Cake we drove Kitty out to Dulles airport and watched her through security. Then the last thing to do was take down the decorations :o(
We've had a quiet time between Christmas and New Year's day watching movies and playing board games. We did venture out of the house for a short bike ride with Kitty and went into DC to see the Shakespeare Theatre Company's brilliant production of Twelfth Night. We managed to offset any culture gained by playing Raving Rabbids TV party and watching Bolt in 3d at the cinema.
We went round to Roger and Lynn's on New Year's eve and didn't get to bed until about 5 in the morning. We did have great fun playing Sculptorades, Crokinole, table football as well as some quiz games and even finding time to eat and drink.
Helen has become addicted to Wii fit and has unlocked all the exercises and games, I'm lagging a bit but hope to be back on the programme once I get back to work.
In the new year we went to the American History museum, which didn't seem to have many exhibits and at least one factual error; they had Barack Obama on a list of US presidents even though he won't be inaugurated until 20 Jan.
After that we went back to the theatre to join a discussion on the production of Twelfth Night. We did contribute to the discussion even though the other participants may not have understood what we were saying. We kept up the cultural theme by going to the Hard Times Cafe for Chili and then to Tiffany's Tavern to introduce Kitty to the experience that is live Bluegrass. To recover we went to Denny's for breakfast and then walked round Huntley Meadows Park to see if we could spot any beavers. We did see half a dozen deer, some squirrels and signs of beavers, but no beavers.
Monday was Kitty's last day in the US and I took her to see our chiropractor who spent 90 minutes adjusting her spine and it must have done her good as she looked quite different afterward. Then after a casual lunch and one last slice of Christmas Cake we drove Kitty out to Dulles airport and watched her through security. Then the last thing to do was take down the decorations :o(
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