A Saucy Night

Saucy Orchestra is back in action.  Unfortunately we were not in top form, started very slowly, picking up steam and then blowing it all in the Wipe Out round.  

We arrived at the pub early to have dinner with Amanda.  You may remember her from past posts - I think the last time we saw her was in NYC over Thanksgiving weekend.  This time we saw on Facebook that we were both in London at the same time.

I was also excited that Ollie joined us.  I don't think he knew we would be there so it was a nice coincidence that he came for the quiz that night.  And of course we had Jerry and Jules.

Unfortunately the quiz seemed to go faster than I could scribe so I don't have very good notes.  And quite a few of the questions were hard to follow.

Questions

Three footballers children have all started going to some school in Barcelona - how old are these kids?  (see what I mean about not taking good notes?)

What animal has recently been discovered not to be extinct after finding new video footage?

What town is the town at the east end of the M20?

Who said swearing is industry language?

Why was a driver in Barnstable told that it would take 6 hours to get police assistance after an accident?

What are the first 5 colors of the rainbow in order in French?

What 5 host cities postponed the olympics due to war?

What was the pen name of Theodore Geisel?

Answers:

Three footballers children have all started going to some school in Barcelona - how old are these kids?  3 years old

What animal has recently been discovered not to be extinct after finding new video footage? Tasmanian Tiger

What town is the town at the east end of the M20?  Folkestone

Who said swearing is industry language?  Gordon Ramsey

Why was a driver in Barnstable told that it would take 6 hours to get police assistance after an accident?  Because she called Barnstable MA, USA  police rather than Barnstable UK

What are the first 5 colors of the rainbow in order in French?  Rouge, Orange, Jaune, Vert, Bleu

What 5 host cities postponed the olympics due to war?  Berlin, London, Tokyo Sapporo Cortina

What was the pen name of Theodore Geisel?  Dr Seuss (this was my contribution to the night)

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We loved being back even if we lost.  Bill had more pictures on his phone that he posted on Facebook so I don't have a lot of visuals but I wanted to share some quiz questions.  Oh, and the winning team of the night??  Butt Fuzz!!

Hello from Wales!! (And Happy Birthday, Fletch!!)

We are on holiday!!! (And it's Fletch's birthday!!  Please wish him happy today!!)

This was our home for the first night - a farmhouse 3 miles outside Chipping Campden.  There was another couple staying there who did a murder mystery train ride on Saturday night which sounded so cool!!  We need to book that for our next visit.

Anyway, this is us before we could check in - wearing the same clothes for 36+ hours and staying awake by shopping in Chipping Campden.

I love the golden stone buildings of the Cotswolds.

This one is blurry which makes sense because I felt blurry.  We didn't get a nap all day - instead we just had to power through the day and night.  This is us at The Eight Bells for dinner.  Even here I order salmon…and a large glass of wine.  It's good to be back in a world where you can order a large  :-)

More posts coming sporadically as we have time.  But it's nice to be back on line  - I'm back to thinking of everything as a blog post :-)

We're back! (Part one)

Hi Everyone!!  

Thank you for indulging us in our blog break.  It was nice to have time off but I missed you. There were times when Bill and I would turn to each other and say, "This would be a blog post!"  But we also found ourselves saying, "What a relief not to have to come up with a blog post after a long dull day of work."  I think the solution will be a less frequent schedule - a weekly post recapping the fun, interesting moments of the week rather than a daily chore.

Of course this means that right now I have a backlog of fun moments.  Here are some highlights of the past four weeks.

Diane (aka DiDi)'s cousins Ann and Maeve arrived from Ireland for a family vacation in Maine.  I had the honor of meeting Di and Maeve in Boston for a night on the town before they headed north.  You may remember Maeve from our trip to Paris 3(?) years ago.  She's growing up fast but still adorable.

This was one of those moments when I was really missing the blog…when I saw my neighbor's rhinoceros menorah.  Please notice the scale - this thing is the same height as that table on the right!  Now I know what to get Whitney and Aaron for Hanukkah this year.

I enjoyed some carpool karaoke with Piper this summer on some trips to and from doggy daycare.

Little Miss Oona was baptized!  It was a full family event on a beautiful August day.

Mom - please note that she is wearing the dress you sent.

Uncle Joey came in his new teacher wardrobe.  As of tonight he is a week and a half into his first real teaching job and doing great!

Malikai rode home with us after the baptism and entertained us with some twangy southern style songs wearing Grampa Bill's hat.

Phase two of the outdoor renovations are in full swing - -the new porch!  This was day one  - the destruction of the old porch.

And here it is yesterday - not quite finished but really taking shape.  This is Bill's winter cigar smoking area so the plan is to get a comfy chair that he can use without blocking the front door.

I took a trip up to Vermont to see Chris and Earle on the weekend of the Middlebury New Filmaker's Festival.  It was so much fun!!  

One of the festival events was to see Maggie Gyllenhaal….

and her husband Peter Sarsgaard in conversation with director, Jay Craven.  Maggie was super cute and much happier than she looks in that top picture.  I went in saying I wasn't crazy about Peter S. but he won me over by the end of the event.  They live in Vermont not too far from Chris and Earle.  I'm sure it's only a matter of time before the foursome is hanging out together at The Bobcat.

As much as I love celebrities, seeing Chris and Earle was really the big draw for me.  

I got all the way to end before I realized there were no pictures of Bill!!!  So here is a really cute one from when Whitney and Aaron came to visit.

I've still got more updates so my next post will be part two.  Then we're off to the UK for a real holiday.