Football, soccer, hockey and baseball

It was a marathon weekend and we didn't even run in the New York City marathon.  But we were tired, at least John was, after watching three games and falling asleep after one inning of the World Series.
 
We drove up to Hightstown for the weekend and packed it in.  Friday night pizza dinner with Grandma, Peter and Janet.  Then sports on Saturday for Peter and John and drama for Janet and Mary who picked up Grandma for dinner.  Sunday, we drove over to the shore with Grandma for an outing to have brunch, in Asbury Park.
 
Now we're home, and still watching sports.
 
The highlight was watching Princeton win a game, finally, and watching it from the sidelines with the coaches and players.  Sure is a different perspective, especially when the players come running right at you!  That happened only a couple of times.  I will no longer laugh when someone on the sidelines gets knocked over.  We then went to a woman's soccer game, a woman's hockey game and back to the soccer field for another game.  John left at half time, but Peter went back and watched it to the bitter end, with two overtimes.
 
The play Mary and Janet saw with a friend from Mexico, was terrific by all accounts.
 
We missed Halloween, but heard about the costumes and parties that the next generation put together.
 
We got a cd from David with his top ten of all time.  Hard to argue with; top tens should really include at least 50 songs.
 
On the way back from the shore, we talked with Andrew and Lur who told us about their family compound (shed and dog house) and Danny and Claire's starting basketball season tomorrow.
 
Down here, Joe was still busy working on his proposal and Margaret's making plans for a trip to Pittsfield this coming weekend, where she hopes to meet up with Annie.  Hope there's heat! 
 
We got some bad news about our house renovation project about needing an engineer analysis for the conservation commission.  Makes you wanna be a Republican - get government out of our lives.
 
Good news from Pittsfield that Natalie, John and Marilyn's grandaughter, Natalie, has fully recovered from an emergency appendectomy and post-op infection. 
 
Nice to end the letter on good news.  And there was a lot of it.  Love, and thanks to Grandma, Peter and Janet for a great weekend.