When we got back to Ithaca, Audun and Irene had arrived from Norway, and my nephew Beren from the City. My Sister, Ilian and Joe who had been driving across the country from California arrived later in the evening with Finley, an 80 lb golden retriever. That night there was a great fireworks show, up at Ithaca College, complete with a roof fire, big enouph that you could see flames. The next day we took the kids to the Premium Outlet Mall at Waterloo for shopping and lunch. I indulged in Chinese-American fast food (I can't get sesame chicken in Norway).
We celebrated Mother's and Father's 50th Wedding Aniversary over 2 days. We all met up at Skenneatles for an excursion boat ride on the lake on the afternoon of the 4th. Adam had gotten in with his family and Tormod late the night before so we saw them there for the first time. I had had T-shirts printed for everyone with a pattern that I had drawn (and improved according to the input Adam, Ilian and Roland had given). Tormod had digitalized the drawing, and Roland helped me choose the colors (black with the pattern in light blue). Every one liked the shirts and the excursin boat crew felt honored to be hosting a 50th anniversary event. In fact, when the ship was full, but some of us were still stuck at the back of a long line of people, they called for the 'aniversary party'to come and board. After the boat ride we all met at the farm to visit and eat. Mother and Father napped while Husband and I prepared a simple spaggeti and tomato sauce meal. We all sat outside to eat.
At 7pm Ilian and Joe, Beren, my kids, and I took off for Ithaca. The kids to play cards and watch movies, Ilian, Joe and I to contra dance. It was a great dance. House callers. Kitchen Chair played. Several of our friends were there: Luke, Phil and Katie, Dave, Ted and Pam of course and others. Great to see them and dance with them again.
The second installment of the Celebration was Dinner at a winery on Lake Cayuga. The food was very well prepared, tasty, a little pricey, but it came with wine tasting with each course, and the chicken (which I had) was even organic.
A damper on the festive mood was that Ilian's cat Katya was sick and needed an emergency veterenary appointment. Luckily what ailed her could be cured, but Ilian was understandably upset (also Finley had stepped on a wire or something and hurt his paw today). Back at the farm, we sat around visiting with Adam and family between packing (we're taking Father to Ann Arbor today for a 2 week therapeutic retreat at the Rudolf Steiner Health Center).
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