Busy Weekend-as usual!

1.  Saturday was spent at a fun birthday party at Elephant Steps.  Then I raced back to get Grace to yoga class.  We got to yoga to find out it had been cancelled at the last minute becuase the teacher had an "issue."  Don't we all-have issues, that is!  By the way, Black Bird Yoga sent an email later saying we got a free class for the trouble.  Yeah!  We came back and caught Rich and Lola heading to Toys R Us.  We joined them so Grace could help pick out the mermaid Barbie doll for Lola that she owed her.  I don't think I mentioned the beauty parlor they had this week.  One night I was watching American Idol in my own little world and I heard Lola crying hysterically.  I ran up to find her in Grace's room with a bunch of red hair and soap in her hand.  Turns out Grace had cut the hair off both their dolls!  Grace said it wasn't her fault.  She said she had started trimming and it was crooked and had to keep trimming in order for it to be straight, but had cut it all off by accident.  I can certainly see how this could happen as I used to cut my brother's hair growing up.  But, in fact, it was her fault.  What was she doing with scissors and cutting even a little in the first place?!  Anyway, we got back and the girls wanted to go scootering.  So, we all went out.  Then we came back to rest up for the sitter.  Rich and I headed out with the top down on the Mercedes and went up to Greenwich.  We drove around and looked at all the gorgeous houses and all the damage caused by the storm.  We did see a house with a tree on top!  We were surprised that there weren't more trees on houses with all the trees that had come down.  We ate at Nuage, which is a Japanese and French fusion restaurant.  Then we walked around downtown Greenwich and went to Starbucks.  Oh, and we went to the Porsche dealer to get a look at my new car.  Ha!  It was a really nice date night!

2.  Today Lola woke up at 9!  Wow!  That's at least a move in the right direction.  She's called me three times already tonight, so I hope she can get up for her Little Gym class tomorrow.  Today we drove up to Mystic to go to the seaport.  There was an amazing amount of traffic.  Turns out they were having a huge St. Patrick's Day parade.  Rich was extremely annoyed to get stuck in the traffic.  Once we finally got out of it we went to the Equinox Diner off the exit at Mystic.  It was really great!  We then parked across the street at the shopping village and then walked down to the seaport.  It was a pretty good walk, but the girls did great with it.  The seaport is much larger and impressive than I had thought.  There are little museums within the museum-children's museum, planetarium, sailing ships, etc. to explore.  It was empty!  Everyone was in town for the parade and noone was soaking in the area's history.  We joined so we can go back for the next year.  On the way home we stopped at Rocky Neck State Park to check it out.  The camping area looked pretty good, but we still like "Hammo" better.  We went down to Hammonasset and ate at Lenny and Joe's-it's a little fish shack that is always packed.  Today was no excpetion.  Frankly, I don't love their food, and neither do the girls, but we like the atmosphere.  The outside area with the ice cream and carousel weren't open, but we were able to get ice cream inside.  We then drove over to the park to get a fix before camping season starts.  We got out and went up to the beach.  Whoa, it was cold and windy!  So, back in the car and booked it for home.

3.  I didn't mention that I had printed out the big Gap, Banana, and ON coupon today.  We stopped at Clinton Crossing Outlet Mall and went to the Gap outlet to use the coupon.  We picked out a bunch of stuff and then went to get in line.  Holy cow!  The line was longer than I've ever seen it!  Rich was annoyed and didn't want to waste another minute of his life in there.  So, we put all the stuff down in a heap and walked out.  The girls weren't too upset-especially when they got to raid the snack machine.  Now I'll have to do some more shopping at a later date.  We have a cruise coming up and I want to make sure we're set for that!  4 weeks from today!