Shabbat and Mah Jongg

We spent a leisurely day on Friday hanging out with Cindy at her house except for our brief trip out to Panera's for lunch. In the evening we went to the Rosen's house for dinner.  Their son Josh and his girlfriend Emma were there, and Louis's girlfriend Brook was also there.  Louis had been in Europe and was flying back that night.  They made a wonderful dinner, and we all ate too much and enjoyed each other's company until well after 10 pm.

Today we had a lovely time at shul in the morning. Jeff Rosen was there to read his bar mitzvah portion, and Rabbi Saul read the Torah as well as shared the sermon time with Rabbi Jonathan.  We had so much fun talking to everyone and catching up with everyone.  It will be about 10 months before we are back up here, so we made the most of our time.

After shul we went to Annie's house for lunch and Mah Jongg. I won the very first game I played and then never another game, but it was still so much fun to hang out with everyone.  Arlene's three year old granddaughter Millie was there.  Wow.  That was fun.  We are rarely around three year olds anymore, and she was just delightful.

Tonight Mark made us our usual Saturday night dinner, and we are finally watching The Revenant on his tablet and checking in on the Oriole game on his iPhone.  Technology is great!

Tomorrow is the wedding of Joel and Xenia Oresky.  We will pick up Lowell and Emily to go with us.  When it's over, Mark and I are planning to head right out of Cindy's house to Ashland, VA to get a headstart on the drive home.  At the very least, it gets us out of rush hour traffic through DC on a Monday morning!  We will see Flyn and Jim for lunch and Mark and Carol for dinner.  Tuesday night we will be home.  It hardly seems real that our 64 day odyssey is almost over.

Mark admiring the Disney art at Max's kosher deli.

We satisfied our craving for fried chicken at last.

Mark and Cindy at Panera's on Friday.

Mah Jongg at Annie's house.