Brigid’s brother Neville, his wife Geri, and their daughter June just finished a lovely five day/four night visit with us. They’d flown in Thursday from England, where they were visiting other relatives, including Brigid’s two sisters and left Monday afternoon. They’ll have a couple of nights in LA and then fly to Brisbane, completing an around the world trip. Pretty cool.
Neville is a ship’s pilot (recently retired), who took ships up the river to the port of Brisbane. While they were here they managed to:
Get into Manhattan twice for visits to art galleries, including the Met and the Frick.
See Tim play football Saturday morning (he put two kids on the other team out of the game with tackles! YIKES.) and then go tailgating and see the Army v. Rice football game (bad day for the Army – they could have used Tim). We finished Saturday at Lexington Square Cafe for dinner, along with the Riners, my brother Jim and Judy Anderson.
Sunday Brigid took Neville up a bit north for some rural sightseeing, while Geri and June went back to Manhattan.
And Monday a quiet day going up Bear Mountain and down to Sleepy Hollow to see a Matisse.
And here they are, leaving for JFK at 4 o’clock Monday.
Here’s some of the stuff that went on while they were here:
Thursday, on arriving from London, Joe introduces Geri to the smallest member of the family.
Here is Nev and Geri, watching Tim at his football game. This is the first Amarican football game they’d ever seen.
Tim is the biggest guy in blue in the three point stance, about to ruin #34’s day.
Here he is after the game, not too happy about losing 13-21.
After Tim’s game I headed up to West Point with Nev, Geri and June for some tailgating and to see the Army-Rice game. A bit of a step up from the 8-9 year old league, Ossining v. Dobbs Ferry. The Riely family (Ed and Pat) were kind enough to give us the tickets.
The seats were excellent – 50 yardline in the upper deck.
The pregame stuff was neat.
Army got off to a dream start, taking the opening kick-off straight down the field for a touchdown, but then the wheels came off, and the halftime score was 31-14 to Rice. It finished at 41-14.
The Aussies were amused by the whole thing –
At halftime I took June for a tour around Michie Stadium. She was impresed with some of the Cadet physiques.
Very impressed.
And she liked the Army mascot mules. Don’t know who the little girl is.
Despite her youthful appearance, June is married (Andrew) and has two teenage children (Prudence and Mark). They are all back in Australia, although the three of them had a skiing holiday in New Zealand while June was in England. Neville and Geri have another daughter, Samantha, who is also married and has two children.
Last on the Saturday agenda, was dinner at the Lexington Square Cafe in Mt. Kisco. After an aperitif at our house, we headed over. Besides Brigid and I, and the three Aussies, my brother Jim, Mike and Karen Riner, and our friend Judy Anderson (husband Bob out of town on business) joined us.
Some Lexington Cafe shots:
Neville and Karen.
Neville and Judy – note Judy’s martini. None of that white wine nonsense.
Mike and Judy
June and Jim.
Brigid and Geri.
Tom and Karen, as we complete the dinner circle.
As you can tell from the pictures, the cocktails were working their magic.
Here are a couple of cute pictures from our kitchen Monday, as we awaited the car service to pick up the intrepid travelers –
Lastly, Brigid waves goodbye. And shortly thereafter I was faced (as I always am when Brigid’s family members are leaving, or if she is leaving them) with Weeping Wife Syndrome. Australia is the other side of the world and we don’t know when we’ll meet up again.
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