Sleep-Over

This past weekend we babysat Hunter and Hope while Thatcher and Susan spent the weekend at Mohunk House in New Paltz, NY. Actually it was tag-team babysitting as Rob and Lynn (their maternal g-parents) took the first shift and we took over on Saturday. Our first outing was to Viva Mexico where we enjoyed a delicious dinner. H & H generally complete their meal here with giant bunuelos. I'm not sure I'm spelling it correctly but you get the picture,fried, heavily cinnamon-sugared tortillas with vanilla ice cream and light molasses sauce-YUMMY. They are not into sharing this, as Jim quickly found out.

Sunday we attended "Christmas in Belvidere" which turned out to be Santa in a gazebo with Sponge Bob Square Pants and The Grinch in attendance. When Hunter was asked by Santa what he wanted for Christmas he gave his standard reply " a Krugerand". "Okay" says Santa. "and how about you little girl?" Hope was a bit suspicious of the old boy. "Hes just a helper Santa" she says dismissively. Although it wasn't the big event as promised in the papers, we discovered that the town has a coin shop which luckily was not opened. Hunter aka "Coin Boy" is totally obsessed. All he wants for Christmas is a gold ducat, or a golden eagle or a Pillar Dollar.
We proceeded to the Humdinger Alpaca Farm where Hope, aka Tasmanian Devil tried to catch one. We had a great time but I must admit by late Sunday afternoon I was pretty tired. Hunter calls me "Old Granny" sometimes. Boy I felt it.