Spring break 2017 - updated

Well, update - spring break is over, and I'm enjoying power session off at VPP.  This is the last time for awhile because of the budget cuts at APS, so I am forced to enjoy it as fully as possuble🤗. I'm going to dig out my stuff for Block #1of the "Women and the Bible" quilt, and get started!  Maybe even make a kennel cover for Cali while I'm in the zone.  Rockies opening day on Friday? Hmmm .  It has been a glorious start to spring this year.

Breakfasts lunches and even a movie with Nana

Sometimes with the girls 

The seedlings had to come home for break too.

Watching Fantastic Beasts with the fantastic beasts.

"Fellowship" - 🤗 with the girlfriends.

NYC

Day 1 - Bus to the Theatre District, around the corner from the Late Show in the Ameritania.  Test out those walking shoes and head to Time Square.  Next, Dizzy's Jazz club and the Stanley Cowell Quartet.  Back to Time square, and sleep!

Day 2-  Starbucks across the street! Double-decker bus tour, Lunch on the Peir and onto the Harbor tour, Statue of Liberty,  dumped out for shopping, ACK!  back to the hotel to get ready for: the Metropolitan Opera, Beethoven's Fidelio! Subways, room checks, me my feet hurt, sleep,

Day 3 - Go , start Starbucks again, Radio City Music Hall, lunch at the Stardust diner, subway to the 9/11 Memorial (not enough time!), boom! back to time square, shopping, dinner, the Phantom of the Opera at the Majestic Theater on Broadway, quick trip to the top of the Rock, 10 miles at least walking today and I'm told it was the least of the 3 - I slept like a rock.

Day 4 - Bring it on home.  Check out, off to MOMA, over the river and through Central Park, (but darn it, Balto was just a pathway away, but we were in express mode - no stops) The last group check, and home, blessed home!  So happy to be home.  "I can't wait to stop having to adult."

The official first photo, and selfie bomb by Tavin!
                          

H Group - PEACE! Shainob, Jaylin, Kaylie, Mia Caitlin, Cindy and Tavin

The whole group in Time Square - the first Night

The whole group at Dizzy's Jazz Club, before the Stanley Cowell Quartet show.

  Stanley hiimself playing a rusty old music box harp.

  They were good.  (Even I liked it 😏).

 Harbor tour panoramic

Caitlin and camera

  Lady Liberty

 Radio City Music Hall

 9/11 Memorial and Museum

 One of t the 9/11 reflecting pools

The Phantom!

 

The view out of our window - Ooh, look, there's a Starbucks!

 The whole group in front of MOMA

 Orchestra kids and Mr. Geare

 Roman's doing selfies too? Apparently.

 Caitlin teaches me how to "hold the phone"

 Caitlin and Mia - Their feet hurt (it's day 4!)

 Waiting to go home.  MAO!  (I can't tell you the rules.)

And the WELCOME HOME COMMITTEE!! -   that's a wrap.

Cali looks happy to see us, but that's definitely a "where the hell have you been?" look on Zorro's face.

Oh Nana, even YOU should listen to THE MAMA!

well, I just got off the phone with Nana (Roberta Gillis), after lecturing her about picking up her ipad and checking her email and facebook.  Recognizing that she was humoring me, I took it a step further, and she dutifully assured me that yes yes, she would do that in just a minute.  "Mom, the only way it's going to get easier is to do it a few minutes every day.  .  . . "  I could have been telling my children to pick up the dog poop.  Heavy sigh.  She should listen to the Mama!

49 - that's all I have to say about that

The news!

New York City - here we come!  Caitlin has a school trip with the Band/Orchestra that, when I read through the itinerary I thought was such a great deal/opportunity, I decided to go too.