Lovely Weekend

 We Had a Lovely weekend with Janice and Madhu. On Friday I took them down to The World Trade Center site and The Oculus. We had lunch at Eataly. That evening Madhu took us out for dinner at Il Tinello. Saturday lunch at Saravanas. Junu, John Koerner and Kate, a friend of Chiara's from college, joined us.Saturday night we went to see La Boheme at The Met. It was terrific.

World Trade Center

Il Tinello

Saravanas

The Met Opera

State Cross Country

Laura ran in the NY state cross country meet yesterday at Van Cortland Park in The Bronx. It was a fun day. As you can tell from the photos her team is really small, She is the only girl. It is quite an achievement that they qualified to run. 

Laura, coach Ferreira and Lance

Laura and James

Start of the race

end of the race

 

Halloween and Dogs Enjoying the Sun

Hannah was Poppop for Halloween

 

It's the end of October, 2021

 Two sunny days in a row make it very hard to work. 

This is my favorite spot in Mt. Hope. If you enlarge the picture, you will see that the Coffin family headstone is right behind that of the Graves family.

Mom and I went to Speculator for Helen's 98th birthday. Not a typo--ninety-eight. We stopped as a scenic view spot I have always meant to stop at but never have until now. Very scenic.

Helen--beautiful then, beautiful now.

Some Good Things

Elvira, Cristina's daughter, graduated from  the University of Turin. 

They are all currently living in Umbria. Their business is going well.  Tourism has started up again in Italy. Cristina and Piero had to change a few things. No more dinners with the guests and some logistical changes so that there is plenty of time between one guest going and another arriving.

 The Met is open again. As you can see its pretty empty, This is both wonderful and sad. 

Apart from decreased traffic and everyone wearing a mask, life in NYC feels pretty normal.

We are all doing well. Everyone is back at school.  Both Chiara and Laura have actually been going to to the school itself. while Nick and Chandran have been doing it remotely.

I have also started up again with my Bharatanatyam dance classes. This is also done remotely.

After watching The Social Dilemma on Netflix. I have decided to not go on facebook. I haven't quite reached the point of deleting my account yet. 

Thanks Madhu for sending us Yoga's snacks.

Naomi and Ray were married in their kitchen.

Naomi and Ray with grandson Henry

News

We have a new exchange student living with us. Her name is Anastasia, she is very nice. Unfortunately things did not work out with her host family so she is with us. She comes from France and is going back March 13.

Laura continues to have a good time in Germany. At the moment they are traveling around as the kids have midwinter break.

My good friend Cristina is in the process of bringing her Children, Elvira and Nick, to Umbria. They had been studying at the university of Turin. Unfortunately the university has been shut down till further notice because of Covis-19. I have been in touch with my cousin Andrea. All is family is well but all the schools have been shut down and they have restricted travel.

We are keeping a close eye on the situation in Europe just in case we need to bring Laura home early. Right now she is coming back on March 20.

Looking forward to seeing some of you this weekend.

Laura in Stuttgart

With Anastasia at Blue Smoke

 

News from Laura

We spoke to Laura this morning she is doing well and sounds happy.

 These photos were sent  to me by Sonja, Amelie's mom. Yesterday they took a trip to France, this is Strasbourg. They went ice skating and ate a tremendous amount of sweets.

Laura, Josie, Cawe*, Lisa and Amelie.

 

* not quite sure about the spelling of his name. but that is what it sounded like

The fall weather has been very nice.

Courtesy of Amber

Dance Recital

I had my first dance recital last Sunday. Everyone tells me it went well.

Waldorf 100

100 years today the first Waldorf school opened in Germany. We celebrated the day with a street fair. Laura performed with the Jazz band.

Winnie is also back to school

Photo credit: Amber

Back to School

 Laura started school yesterday, Nicky Today. The bus actually arrived on time! We have an exchange student from Germany living with us, her name is Amelie. She and her mom arrived last Friday. Her mom goes back to home today. Amelie is staying with us till December 5. Laura will be going to Germany from January 3 to sometime in March.

Laura & Amelie first day of school

Her mom Sonja

Life Update

I got a dog. His name is Lee.

Car Trip

Cedar Breaks National Monument Utah

Escalante Utah

Overall it was in incredible trip. We all really enjoyed Utah, the natural scenery is quite spectacular. We had a lovely time with the Koerner's in Colorado. Sandy had rented this huge house in Frisco, this was good as we were joined by some friends of theirs and Teddy's.

Colorado

 Hot Springs Arkansas was really nice, didn't even know it existed till we stopped there.

Hot Springs Arkansas

A special thanks to Eliza for taking such good care of Gus and Po.

We are all happy to be home.
More photos on flikr
https://www.flickr.com/photos/29397461@N04/

Clean Plate Club

Welcome to our newest member! (The Prune was great)

Happy Anniversary Grandma and Popop!

60 is more years than most of us have been alive, which makes sense.

Also happy 10 year anniversary to your 50th anniversary in Rhinebeck!

Geneva II-Annecy

Annecy is lovely. We went there to meet Monica and Joe, Noah's friends from the Peace Corps. They live in Lyons, but Joe had worked in Annecy, so he picked the restaurant.

Annecy

We were traveling with Ashwani's colleague, Mike. He was very easy company.

Annecy

Monica and Joe

Raclette