Back in the Swing

Mom and Dad headed off for the airport in a hired car about 9 a.m this morning. It was really nice to have them here. I see by Delta's web site that they are somewhere over Maine right about now, and their flight is even scheduled to arrive a bit early. Hopefully their time in Atlanta will go much more smoothly than it did on the flight over. They will get home just in time to go vote tomorrow.

At 10:30, Steve the tow truck guy came and took the car to the dealership. They can't look at it until tomorrow, but said I could go ahead and have it brought in. Hopefully, it won't take long to fix.

To celebrate election day tomorrow, I'm meeting friends at the newly opened Westfield Mall. Europe's largest inner city shopping mall. Nothing says "I love America" like consumerism.

Maddie was glad to to back to school and had a new girl from Belgium start in her class today. She doesn't speak a lot of English, and I reminded Maddie that a lot of Belgians speak either French or German in addition to Flemish. So tomorrow, she's going to see if they can speak a little Deutsch together.

Skip could have used another week or ten of vacation, but he, too, headed back to his regularly scheduled program today.