After more than two months in Boston to welcome Henry and play with Simone, the time has come for us to head out to the rest of our Summer Adventure. Henry is now 7 weeks old and starting to respond to attention with some tentative smiles and almost a laugh. Simone is becoming such a little person and is picking up more and more of the nuances of language structure. We were surprised on several occasions to find if her using adjectives and adverbs at the correct point and getting her tense and pronouns correct. It is fun to see how a young mind parses language without very much real instructions but just by observation. Of course, this means it is increasingly important for the adults around her to be careful of their language because she will parrot anything she hears.
While we were in Boston, we did get an opportunity to fly to Portland Oregon for a few days for the first Birthday of our second Grandson, Marty. It was great fun to catch up with the West Coast fam and do see Marty’s advancement towards walking. He was getting very close. And we got some time with Oliver too. It was fun to take him to the local McDonalds and see him happily climbing the indoor play area that he could barely negotiate when we took him there last Fall.
Now we are taking about a month to drive the RV from Boston to Portland via some sight-seeing and visiting with friends and family along the way. Our first stop was in New Jersey, where we met up with our Florida friends, Dave and Myra at their daughters house. We were there on Friday for a delicious Shabbot dinner after taking a refreshing dip in their pool on a hot day. The drive was a short one but the worst part of it was getting through NYC. Geoff is hoping that is the worst of the traffic on our trip.
From there, we headed west through Pennsylvania, Maryland, West Virginia, and into Kentucky. We are here now and planning to take a tour of Mammoth Cave tomorrow. But on the way, we stopped off for lunch near Lexington, KY, and visited with our nephew Robert, his wife Katie and their daughter Emily. It was great of them to move right into our path across the country just in time to see us. We have now had opportunities to visit with all of our nieces and nephews in the past two years. It is great to be mobile.
After Cave Country, we are heading to St. Louis, Missouri and Boulder, Colorado to visit with long-time friends in both places before moving to our choice viewing spot for the Great American Solar Eclipse on August 21st (only two weeks away at this writing!). We will post more about our trip after that event.
