Coming home to a Friendly place

We manage to relinquish our great parking space rather than get a ticket or towed and head to NJ. Still have things to do for mom's party and we need to unload the car so we can head to the airport to pick up Orly, Eli, Mom and Dad from their trip out west. Before going to the house in Chatham, I take Bram to one of my favorite childhood places, Friendly's. Must be a mid-Atlantic thing. I've never managed to live anywhere else with Friendly restaurants so I indulge along with Bram. Actually indulge is all relative. I have tuna salad and broccoli. Bram has the largest shirley temple I've ever seen, lunch and then an enormous ice cream. A huge make your own sundae. All for the low low price of $4.95. What a deal! We like it so much that we bring Eli and Orly back the next day.

While at Friendly's Bram and I reminisce about our trip. Or part one of the trip -- mom and bram travel to NYC. We still have two more weeks, a week each at LBI and Va Beach. Not to mention the big party on Saturday night.

Bram's favorites
Training Maggie, Anne's dog in DC
Eating lots of ice cream – 2 x in new york, once in hendersonsville, 2 x at friendly’s
Playing basketball at Blue Star before dinner
Telling jokes to Luke in Delaware
Going to camp in Pennsylvania
Seeing the White House
Playing in fountains a NMAA, at Longwood Gardens and in NY (Natural History and River Park)
Ordering his own dinner in DC at the Mexican restaurant
Playing pokemon with all the boys
Going to the baseball game in WB and doing Cupid Shuffle

Mom's favorites
Seeing all my friends and all those kids (in order of appearance: Daniel, Henry, Jamie, Max, Sam, Ben, Luke, Richie, Max, Teddy, Eliza, Aaron, Jason, Alex, Nora and Anna)
GPS (my new friend, badly needed in my life)
Fountains, fountains, fountains (see above-what a great feature during summer)
Watching Bram literally skip through the cities we visited
Lincoln Monument at night
Anything in NYC and DC

I could go on and on. It was all such a treat. To have the time to take this drive, see old friends and be one on one with Bram. And like I said, there is more of the road trip to come. Stay tuned.