Day trip to Long Island

The kids and I took a day trip to Long Island today to see my aunt and cousin who haven't met Pancake or seen Doodle in a long time. We had a bit of traffic on the Belt Parkway (the worst road ever) on the way there but none coming home. We went to the library where my aunt works and met her friends. They were great entertaining Doodle and acting appropriately impressed by his ability to write all 26 of the letters. Then we went out to lunch where both kids were very well behaved (even more noteworthy is that they were great in the car too). We headed home soon after lunch and were home in plenty of time to eat dinner with Mr. D. I am grateful that my kids are so damn good.

Here is a great picture from the diner.