Another packed weekend.
Friday night was our Cub Scout Pack meeting, which lasted from around 7:30 PM until clean-up finished around 10:00 PM. Saturday morning, I drove up to Florham Park to complete the required Cub Scout Leader specific training for the Pack Committee Chairman position, from 9:00 AM until Noon. Drove home, cleaned up the house a bit and got ready for the baby-sitter to arrive at 3:45, so that Edith and I could drive over to Summit to catch the 4:49 train into Hoboken for the night…
Last night we celebrated my in-laws 45th wedding anniversary (today) at Leo’s restaurant in Hoboken, along with the majority of Edith’s siblings and their spouses (Michael, Cassy, Guy, Meaghan, Judith, Brian, Andrea, Gus) along with Edith’s grandmother, Uncle Peter and Aunt Lisa. We all took the train in together, which was a fun time, but the evening was still young; we got to Leo’s at a little past 6:00 PM, and had to wait a bit for our table for 15 (they do not take reservations, but assured us we arrived early enough we would be seated) so we hung out at the bar and ran a tab. Now, Leo’s is not a terribly big place, and the bar area is pretty tight, and our party was starting to get a bit, um, relaxed. Let’s just say that I’m sure there were plenty of folks at the bar who were happy to finally see us seated, but once we were seated, we were just hitting our stride. We practically took ownership of the place at that point. Now, we were not particularly obnoxious, but we were certainly loud, and enjoying the evening. I don’t think we’ve ever had the opportunity before to go out together, with all of our kids at home with sitters, and just enjoy each other’s company in such a way. Was there excessive alcohol? You bet. Lots of food? Absolutely. Lots of busting of chops, but no one taking any of it seriously, all in good fun; lots of laughing, yelling, and singing. Lots of picture taking, even a birthday cake to celebrate Judith’s 31st birthday yesterday. A few hours later, our meals were finished, and we were ready to move onto the next stop.
We intended to have some drinks at The Nag’s Head, an Irish bar located downtown, but unfortunately for us we had not yet finished the cigars we had started on the walk over from Leo’s. We decided instead to walk down to the river and grab some drinks at the W, i.e. the Westin Hotel, in their outdoor bar overlooking the New York City skyline. Again, unfortunately for us, there was a line outside waiting to get in, which we did not want to stand on. Fortunately, Trinity was located right across the street, so we finally gathered there. I was able to manage a pint of Guinness, before Edith and I had to take off to catch the 11:08 train back to Summit (the train schedule out of Hoboken is pretty desperate; basically if you miss the 11:08 PM, train, which gets you back to Summit at 12:06 AM after switching trains in Newark, you’ve got to catch the 11:33 PM train, switch trains in Secaucus, and then get back into Summit at 1:28 AM. Miss those trains, and your last hope is the 1:32 AM drunkard train, pulling into Summit at 2:28 AM.) We made the 11:08 train, no problem – but the rest of our party hung out at Trinity to wait and catch a non-existent 12:00 AM train, and arrived in Summit nearly 3 1/2 hours later.
We were a bit tired this morning – managed to miss Mass, but I don’t think we were expecting to make it anyway. Today was a catch-up day, to squeeze into one day whatever normally gets done in two days.
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