Weekend

May. 12th, 2008 12:44 pm
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I was so ready for the weekend after last week's training.

Husband was away last weekend in Houston, by coincidence also taking quality systems training, and he definitely had more fun than our Green Belt group. Thursday I got a pix and a text from Minute Maid Field, where he and some other students had gone for a game. The best we did was to hit Chao Phaya on Friday! At any rate, he came home late on Friday night.

Saturday was one long snafu. It was so frustrating. First, the power cut out in the house for no apparent reason when I was half done drying my hair, leaving one side all styled and the other side full of undried styling product. My folks decided they wanted to come for Mother's Day, so I later went to the airport to pick them up, to discover that JetBlue had been removed from the placards telling you which terminal to go to. Half an hour later, I was scurrying around the terminal trying to find them, and they think I've been in an accident and have husband on the way to the airport. (My cell phone was dead because I hadn't charged it after husband took the charger with him to Houston.)

We finally got back to the house and had lunch. I took my parents to Mass in the afternoon, and the service was an hour and a half long, leaving no time to wash dried styling product out of my hair before a fancy dinner. At dinner, my dad's dinner arrived cold and overdone, so he decided to share my mom's meal. The restaurant was very apologetic and sent out another dish, but my dad had already eaten most of what my mother had given him and back went a beautiful lamb sirloin to the kitchen. They also forgot to take the dish off the tab, which was corrected, but wow were we ready to leave (service was quite slow.)

Sunday, we took my mom out to Duke Farms for a look at the indoor display gardens before they are permanently closed to the public. It was very pretty inside, and Doris Duke sure did have a lot of money to spend on her whims. The property is not very well maintained, especially compared to Longwood Gardens, but Longwood is in a class by itself. My mother had a nice time, and we had brunch and dinner at home rather than joining the crowds of people taking Mom out to eat.

They left this morning after an interminable wait in traffic on 202/206 thanks to an accident. New Jersey traffic is such a pain in the ass. It would be better if they'd consider coming on Friday and leaving on Sunday, but maybe the rates are better this way.
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