Hooray! Maryland photos arrive!

Just as I had given up, I looked on my sister's blog (www.doojies.blogspot.com) and, lo and behold, there's photos from our trip. Here's Maya, cooking up a storm, for my birthday dinner at Kissy's. Two good friends of my sister's have the same birthday as mine, so Kissy and Paul threw a dinner party for 20. It was a mixture of their friends and our family.



Standing at the left is my nephew Justin and to the right is Eder. To the left of me is Anne Marie, mother of the other birthday girl, Glennis. On the other side is my mom Jeannine.




I won't even re-hash how sick and grumpy Ben was the entire trip. Below you can see how cute he is even when he feels like poo-poo.




When Kissy took us to the inner harbor in Baltimore, we started along the walkway next to the water and right off we saw this comedian/magician about to begin his act. He literally was grabbing people as they walked by and dragging them over to watch his show. I think he liked us because we sat down voluntarily. Anyway, we asked him to come over and take our picture and this is what we got instead. A steady stream of abuse from him. Lucky he was cute, and oh so funny. We all laughed so hard through his whole show--it totally made the trip a success.




As I mentioned before, Kissy's best buddy Janine (who, by the way, has the same birthday as Kissy's!) had loaned her SUV so that we could all get around together. The night before we left was the night of Kissy's birthday bash and we had put two great big stereo speakers in the back of the SUV. Then after the party it was raining so hard that we decided to unload them later. But then the next morning my sis had to take her son Lucas to the airport and, running a little late, taking the speakers out got postponed again. Then as Kissy was careening towards home to load all of us up for the next trip to the airport, one of the speakers crashed into the back side window. In case you are lucky enough not to know, tempered glass shatters into a million pieces. Two million, if it's a big window like this was.

Soooooooo....Kissy and I took about three deep breaths, and then went to work making a cardboard cover for the inside of the window and another for the outside. As we duct-taped, we reminded each other that this is not a brain tumor. It will get fixed. It's just money, etc. Below is a testimony to our combined artistic talent.




Then, lickity split, we were off to the airport and on our way home. Slowly, though, because airplanes don't fly on time anymore. Or at least not when you're traveling with a sick baby. But I vowed not to mention that anymore, so...

Stay tuned. There's more coming,

Valori