Well, not quite. Our daughters have both taken off, Ayn for Paris and Ada for the beach. Annie and I sort of feel we should take advantage of this and do something out of the ordinary. But what? Anything we want to we can do when the girls are here. If we are going out and they are home (which in the case of Ayn is becoming rarer and rarer) we tell them and ask if they want to come along. Unless it involves an expensive restaurant, the answer is usually "no". They have their own lives and are far too busy to tag along with a couple of old folks.

So we will probably just follow our normal routine, maybe go check out a new restaurant, but that is about it. It turns out that we are quite content with our lives and do not have a great need to escape.

With the girls gone the house feels empty. It is funny because since Ayn has been working she is almost never home, and Ada seems to be on a 30 hour day, so we sometimes go a couple of days without seeing each other. Even so, we know they are around.

Ada will be back in five days and Ayn in two weeks, it will be good to have them back and I look forward to hearing all about their trips.