Good morning again...it has finally quieted down here and things are getting back to normal.  We will actually be home this weekend (although we have a 50th b&#39;day party on Saturday and the kids trick or treating on Sunday)  Up here the kids are not allowed to trick or treat on Halloween - I guess because we have very few street lights and no real sidewalks - so the Sunday before Halloween is a fun time for all.  They section off the towns into zones and each zone has 2 - 3 hours for their celebration.  The streets are closed to car traffic and the cops patrol on bikes in costume.  A lot of dads hitch up a cart full of hay to their riding mowers and the kids really have a ball.<br />
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As far as our weekend in Ct. goes it was grand spending time with Paige and Colin but we sure got off to a bumpy start. Due to a mix up in communications Dave thought we would be waiting til Saturday morning to go to Ct. due to some heavy rains.   The problem was that Paige had a soccer game at 8:30 so we would have had to be on the road before 5 to get there on time.  So Dave and his family went to a party and we left home, telling them we would call from the one stop we always make along the way.  When I called him, he didn&#39;t hear his phone so I left him a message.  When he finally called me back we were approaching an area that is &quot;dead&quot; for phone service.  So he told me we would probably get there about 5 minutes before him but that I could get into his garage using his new key pad and punching in his wedding date.   THEN WE HIT THE DEAD PHONE AREA and I didn&#39;t hear the rest of his message which was &#39;&#39;but please don&#39;t go in the house til I get there or you call me back so I can tell you how to disarm the alarm&#33;&#33;  <br />
By the time I got my service back, he was in the dead zone when we got to his house so I opened the garage, went up the stairs and made a bee line for the bathroom.  Funny, what the heck was that beeping in the hall&#33;&#33;&#33;  Before I knew what happened the lights were flashing on and off and an alarm that would wake the dead was blaring.  (Good thing I was in the bathroom at the time)  Now Jim comes running up the stairs, trips and bangs up both shins in time to reach the ringing phone which is the alarm company.  Dave finally got though on my cell but I can&#39;t hear a thing he is saying because of the alarm - the alarm company is demanding a pass word and I am just about ready to pass out.  Now the cop cars start arriving - first one - then two - then three.  Jim finally takes the phone from me and run back into the garage where he can finally hear Dave and get the pass word and the alarm code which is NOT the garage code.  What a mess.  Dave finally arrived home about 3 minutes later but it really seemed like hours.  All the neighbors were out - we woke up 1/2 the kids in the area and it took about another hour for my heart to leave my throat and go back into my chest.<br />
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Saturday morning up bright and early to make picnic lunches since the distance between Paiges game and Colins made it easier to not come home between games.  We packed a really great lunch for all of us - Kathy stayed home and Dave, Jim the kids and I left for the 25 minute drive to Paiges game.  Boy were we suprised to see an empty parking lot.  Dave called Kathy and had her check her e-mail and sure enough the fields were too wet to play on and both games had been cancelled.   We were really batting 1000 weren&#39;t we?<br />
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After that we sent Dave &amp; Kathy on their way into Manhattan.  They saw the play &quot;Wicked&quot; and really loved it and we began a marathon session of Disney Bingo, Clue and Go fish.  We really had a great time but left around 3PM to head home - our 2 1/2 hr trip took 4 hours but we made it home safe and sound.<br />
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I sure wish those kids would move closer to us&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33;