The Great Bear Lodge trip in March

Nastia, Sean, Elena and Arriana went to the Great Wolf Lodge in Scotrun PA. for the weekend.God to think your rich and spend money like that again, I’d love to do it.

The four of them left Friday, about 5:30, after everyone got out of work. Teri texted them about 10 that night and, yes they had arrived safely. This is the last we will hear from them until they get back home, unless we reach out to them. I guess I don’t have to worry about them being overly attached to us and not want to leave home. They will just not be able to afford to leave. A room for two at the Great Wolf is about $200.00. There are cheaper options for rooms and houses near Great Wolf for less, but that would take some of the fun out of it I think. When they get home, we’ll ask how it was and get a lot of, “oh, it was great.”

Since Friday, Teri and I have experienced an empty house. It’s weird. We lived together without the girls for fourteen years and the girls came into our lives and it changed everything. Now I don’t know how to live without them. When they go upstairs after dinner it’s like we live alone again because we don’t see them again until morning, but there is a safety net, they are upstairs. It’s like when I was sick the other night with a stomach virus and Teri slept downstairs. I told her I don’t like sleeping in an empty bed. But like with all change, I fell asleep to the radio, something I used to do when I was single, Teri and I had bacon for breakfast on Saturday, went out to breakfast at a diner in Central Nyack on Sunday, then we did a little shopping for stuff we needed around the house. It was different, but familiar. We’ve done things like this before with the girls at home, but this is a glimpse of the future. We haven’t spent this much time together since we were dating. Except for her grocery shopping on Saturday morning we spent the whole time together. And yes when the girls got home about six Sunday night they both said they had a good time. Nastia sent pictures to Teri, I guess she doesn’t like KJ imagining what the places looked like and how things were done. Sean was the only one to tell a story. He said he tried to run to get under a huge bucket of water that splashes down on you. In his haste, he wiped out and came home with a nice souvenir of a bruise just above his hip, around toward his back. I would have chosen something simpler, like a nice beer cozy.