A Return to the City of Brotherly Love

May 13-14, 2012

This morning I loaded my bus at the NY Port Authority at 7:30AM. By 9:40AM I was back in Mt. Laurel where my Mom picked me up at the bus station. We then went to Home Depot to acquire a few more plants for Granny’s yard.

At 12:30PM Judy and Ben picked me up at Granny’s for the Phillies game. The weather at all three ball games this weekend was beautiful. The temperature at the Phillies game was pushing 80. Our seats were high up for this game but that turned out to be great because we had a nice light breeze and our seats were in the shade. I had a great time with Judy, Ben, Enyo and her friend Anthony.

Judy and Ben left me at Granny’s around 5:30PM. I took a short nap before Mother’s Day dinner that Judy graciously went home and made for us. It was an awesome meal. We had stuffed chicken, with really good mixed veggies and cooked apples.

After dinner I went to watch Ben play hockey. Earlier in the day he told me that he had a key and the pass code to put on the lights at one of Moorestown’s community parks. This seemed crazy to me. I’ve never heard of anyone having this type of access to a public park, so I wanted to see it.

As seen above the rink was fricken awesome. It’s like Ben has his own private playground. I think Judy though I was crazy with how cool I thought it was. One other funny element of the hockey match was that one of the goalies in the game is a current defenseman in the NHL. The other goalie was a kid who is now probably 17 but looks and is built like he is a small 10 year old. Needless to say Ben has a fun and diverse group of friends.

Monday morning I got up to go to breakfast with Beck, Mike and all the kiddos. We met at Chick-Fil-A. The kids played in the play structure for a good hour and a half and Beck, Mike and I had a very nice time chatting. After breakfast I went to the store to grab some things for Granny. Once I returned to the house to load up for the airport my Mom told me she wanted to stay behind because she didn’t think Granny was ready to be home alone yet. I wasn’t thrilled with the fact that this meant I had to deal with rebooking Mom’s tickets and that I’ll have to figure out how to do the office payroll... but that’s what you do for family.

All in I enjoyed the week. I had a lot of fun with a variety of friends, saw some fun parks and baseball games and best of all Granny did fantastically well with her surgery.

Until the next yet to be planned adventure,

Katy