Aunt Infestation!

Lauren and Mara

Question: What could be more delightful than having your doting aunties (in the case of Ben and Garrett), your beloved sisters (for Karl), or your yet-two-more-examples-of-how-you-really-lucked-into-this-family, super cool sisters-in-law (that's me speaking) come all the way from Boston to visit?

Answer: Precious little.

Grandma & Grandpa Seeley

The countdown to Grandma and Grandpa Seeley's visit began when we hugged them goodbye and headed toward security at the Newark Airport in August. Nine weeks seemed like a long time. But time does what it does, which is fly.

Here are Char and Bob on a bridge over the Vltava in Český Krumlov, southern Bohemia.

Fifty-two years of marriage and look at the way she still eyes him!

The boys wanted to show off some of our favorite sites and places in Prague, such as

the playground at the Franciscan garden,

the bizarre bar code babies (as Karl dubbed them) on Kampa Island,


and the chairlift at the zoo.


Twelve days went way too fast. Bob and Char have returned to Boston. But we're left with wonderful memories.

And some fun pictures, too!



Thanks, Grandma and Grandpa! We miss you already!

Company!

We hosted our first guests this week! Our dear friend Eric from Seattle and his friend (now our friend) Morna from London joined us on Tuesday evening and will catch a train to Berlin tomorrow.

Here's Eric looking dashingly handsome with Malostranské náměstí in the background.

Perhaps it will be no surprise that Mr. Clean is his default Halloween costume.

When last we saw Eric, Ben had an oral vocabulary of 50 words (lots more when you threw in the sign language) and Garrett was the size of a walnut in utero. We've longed to see him again lo these many years. And now, here he is. Prague, apparently, makes a better carrot than Oneonta.

We've covered a lot of ground this week -- both in catching up on old friends and acquaintances (she married who?) and seeing the Golden City.

Morna and Eric take a much needed rest at the Cubist lamppost. (Seriously ... we covered a lot of ground.)

Thank you so much for visiting M&E! It was wonderful to have you with us.

And you're always welcome to come see us back in Oneonta. ☺