Vacation, Day 5 - Part I
Aug. 31st, 2007 07:00 amIf you want LOL Cheese, Hannaford in Hudson has it on special for $3.49 per pound, though you can get it for only $2.99 per pound at the White Hen Pantry. I love a good cheese that can make me laugh out loud.
The day started with a visit from Gram and us going over genealogy. We still haven't made much progress on the McCarthy side of her family, but she found a bunch on her mother's side (Pichette). There's still a puzzle, though, since the parents listed on her marriage certificate aren't the parents listed on her birth certificate, although the fathers were related. We know her mother was in an orphanage for a while and we suspect her father on her marriage certificate may have either been her uncle or her real father, though her mother on the marriage certificate did tell one of my Gram's sisters that she wasn't really Gram's mother's mother. Did that make sense? So that was interesting and I think I'm going to look into obituaries in the Union Leader between 1896 (Gram's mother's birth year) and 1908 (the year the father on the marriage certificate died). I suspect that perhaps both of her birth parents may have died at the same time or nearly the same time and that's why she ended up with relatives and eventually in the orphange and the Notre Dame convent school.
After Gram left we decided to head to Londonderry early to check out The Game Castle. It was nice to get to a gaming store, especially one we had never visited before, but I must admit we were a bit disappointed. For such a large store they really didn't have much to offer. It looked like they focused mostly on miniature games and tournaments around them. The whole back half of the store was filled with tables, battle dioramas and whiteboards with tourney results. They had a wall devoted to Euro board games and was pleasantly surprised to see some good ones. They had two copies of Viktory II! We ended up buying Bohnaparte, an expansion for Bohnanza. It looks interesting and was very inexpensive. It completely changes the game because instead of focusing on gathering money from planting fields and winning by being the richest player at the end, you plant fields, gather money and use the money to attack and control provinces worth victory points. The winner is the person with the most victory points at the end.
We ended up eating lunch at TJ's Eatery in Londonderry, which is this little take-out/diner in the Crossroads Mall. I got a grilled chicken spinach salad which was much larger than I expected.![[profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
painted_wolf got the Rachael sandwich (kinda like a Reuben but not) and some onion rings. It was nothing exciting but the prices were reasonable and the food was good, so it was worth eating there.
I went off to my meeting andpainted_wolf went over to the public library to wait for me. It was a rough two-hour meeting and I was thrilled to be out of there when it was over. After that we headed straight back to my parents to visit for a while and to finally see my Dad while he was awake. Mom cooked a nice dinner for the four of us and then my sister Cat and brother-in-law Eduardo (Jess's husband) showed up with all the kids. I had a delightful time playing with the kids (translation: I got trampled and sat upon a lot, which is absolutely fine by me).
We watched television for a bit, which wasn't really exciting but it's what my family does for entertainment, until everyone left. My Mom decided to go visit a friend so we tagged along. We got to see B. and M. for the first time in months and they seem to be well. B. was excited about sports (baseball and football) and I just smiled and nodded because I am clueless about that stuff. Red Sox? Yankees? Patriots? Meh. *shrug*
I slept better that night, mostly because I was so exhausted from such little sleep the night before. Today the plan is to leave in a couple hours, stop in to visit Mom at work and meet her co-workers, stop in Borders and use our coupons for a new book and a DVD, go to Plymouth to get my pay check and then who knows what else from there. We'll likely do some grocery shopping and then go home and cook dinner and just enjoy some home time. I am certainly going to enjoy sleeping in our own bed tonight.
I'm conflicted about the weekend. I want to go to the lake once more before vacation is over, but it's Labor Day weekend. I'm sure the lake will be packed with seasonals and tourists, which is not all that fun, but I really want to go swimming. We'll see...
The day started with a visit from Gram and us going over genealogy. We still haven't made much progress on the McCarthy side of her family, but she found a bunch on her mother's side (Pichette). There's still a puzzle, though, since the parents listed on her marriage certificate aren't the parents listed on her birth certificate, although the fathers were related. We know her mother was in an orphanage for a while and we suspect her father on her marriage certificate may have either been her uncle or her real father, though her mother on the marriage certificate did tell one of my Gram's sisters that she wasn't really Gram's mother's mother. Did that make sense? So that was interesting and I think I'm going to look into obituaries in the Union Leader between 1896 (Gram's mother's birth year) and 1908 (the year the father on the marriage certificate died). I suspect that perhaps both of her birth parents may have died at the same time or nearly the same time and that's why she ended up with relatives and eventually in the orphange and the Notre Dame convent school.
After Gram left we decided to head to Londonderry early to check out The Game Castle. It was nice to get to a gaming store, especially one we had never visited before, but I must admit we were a bit disappointed. For such a large store they really didn't have much to offer. It looked like they focused mostly on miniature games and tournaments around them. The whole back half of the store was filled with tables, battle dioramas and whiteboards with tourney results. They had a wall devoted to Euro board games and was pleasantly surprised to see some good ones. They had two copies of Viktory II! We ended up buying Bohnaparte, an expansion for Bohnanza. It looks interesting and was very inexpensive. It completely changes the game because instead of focusing on gathering money from planting fields and winning by being the richest player at the end, you plant fields, gather money and use the money to attack and control provinces worth victory points. The winner is the person with the most victory points at the end.
We ended up eating lunch at TJ's Eatery in Londonderry, which is this little take-out/diner in the Crossroads Mall. I got a grilled chicken spinach salad which was much larger than I expected.
painted_wolf got the Rachael sandwich (kinda like a Reuben but not) and some onion rings. It was nothing exciting but the prices were reasonable and the food was good, so it was worth eating there.I went off to my meeting and
painted_wolf went over to the public library to wait for me. It was a rough two-hour meeting and I was thrilled to be out of there when it was over. After that we headed straight back to my parents to visit for a while and to finally see my Dad while he was awake. Mom cooked a nice dinner for the four of us and then my sister Cat and brother-in-law Eduardo (Jess's husband) showed up with all the kids. I had a delightful time playing with the kids (translation: I got trampled and sat upon a lot, which is absolutely fine by me).We watched television for a bit, which wasn't really exciting but it's what my family does for entertainment, until everyone left. My Mom decided to go visit a friend so we tagged along. We got to see B. and M. for the first time in months and they seem to be well. B. was excited about sports (baseball and football) and I just smiled and nodded because I am clueless about that stuff. Red Sox? Yankees? Patriots? Meh. *shrug*
I slept better that night, mostly because I was so exhausted from such little sleep the night before. Today the plan is to leave in a couple hours, stop in to visit Mom at work and meet her co-workers, stop in Borders and use our coupons for a new book and a DVD, go to Plymouth to get my pay check and then who knows what else from there. We'll likely do some grocery shopping and then go home and cook dinner and just enjoy some home time. I am certainly going to enjoy sleeping in our own bed tonight.
I'm conflicted about the weekend. I want to go to the lake once more before vacation is over, but it's Labor Day weekend. I'm sure the lake will be packed with seasonals and tourists, which is not all that fun, but I really want to go swimming. We'll see...
