Saturday morning

Sit for a while and go through family things with Bernadette. Hear about life in Dundalk and Dublin for the family back in the day. All sharing information…Bernadette is really the archivist of the family. She has a file on her computer with the information! I fill in some gaps in info about Bernie and our side of the family.

In the afternoon to the mall – looking for presents with Denise and two of her boys, Bernadette and Sheila…

Home and walk the dog. Icy weather, cold and clear. Talk with Bernadette – even more family stories and then home again. They go out to mass. We are to eat out at Castleton’s restaurant = Scarnatto’s – drink red wine and eat pasta but the portions defeat me (this is why Americans are fat Bernadette tells me)

Cousin Sheila is with us – in fact she drives me there in her truck. In the front she has Half Nelson on DVD, turns out that she works in a school like that in Albany – lots of issues and students who need motivating and taking good care of…

From there – home. Basketball has overrun so previous plan to meet in the HIllcrest Inn is off and so we spend the evening in with a DVD (Ghost Town – Ricky Gervais)