Home Alone

During the recent Christmas break, Regee and I had four days "home alone" with Veronica, Max and Charlie the Beast.  Their minders had all gone off to Charleston, South Carolina, for a well-earned rest.

Giant gingerbread house (10 ft tall & 1300 lbs)

at Marriott Marquis Hotel in DC

We had a great time with them and visited a giant gingerbread house (above), playgrounds, museums, local parks and, don’t tell the parents, ate forbidden food like ice cream and pizza!

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 Regee slept downstairs with the kids; but

look who I got to sleep with--Charlie!

 Veronica loved the Hirschhorn Sculpture Garden

in DC and Henry Moore’s “King and Queen"

 In spite of my vehement objections, Lola 

insisted on buying ice cream!

 At the Air & Space Museum, the only place 

to eat was Macdonald’s.  They loved it.

 Paul came around to help out one day.  He played 

with them in the basement until he passed out.

 Here are the gang having lunch at Raku in Glover Park.

The food was excellent.

 Veronica at Raku after a lot of edamame, miso soup 

and, her absolute favorite, shumai (siomai)

At the Air & Space Museum, the kids loved 

the (not) "Snoopy and the Red Baron" plane 

 At the Washington National Cathedral, 

they clambered up the rope obstacle course

 This is the big, scary slide they made me go down with them.  

Then they went by themselves 5 times!

And whenever they got hungry, Lola went to 

the supermarket with them to get more food.

 The last night, we gave Lola a break.  I got a 

big cheese pizza from the Sfize Cafe nearby.

Lola didn’t want to give them back!  It is very quiet around here 

and I’m missing my pizza and ice cream.....