アウトレットでクリスマスのお買い物.../Xmas Shopping at the outlet...

土曜日の朝週末にしては早起きしてリバーヘッドアウトレットにクリスマスのお買い物をしに行って来ました。週末だしクリスマス近いしとても混んでるだろーなーと思っていたら全然ガラガラでびっくり！結果的に家族の何人かの買い物を終える事が出来ました。一つ勘違いしていた事はここにクレイト＆ベレルって言う台所用の雑貨屋みたいのがあると思っていたから、今日結婚する予定のデイブのいとこへギフトカードを買って行こうと思っていたら違うお店だった事...ケータイで近くにお店があるか調べたけどな〜い！！結局、写真立てを買ってその中にお札を折り紙みたいに折って挟みました。本当はハートの形に折りたかったんだけど思い出せなかったから変な三角形とロケットみたいな形...　2人の想像力に任せます：）
Saturday morning we got up early(for our regular weekend wake up time...) and headed to Riverhead Outlet for some Xmas shopping. We were expecting a crowded parking lot but were very surprised to not have to fight with crowds so bad for the outlet, but good for us:-) We did good, we can't give you the details but we got to finish getting gifts for some of the family members. One mistake was that I thought this outlet was the one with Crate & Barrel so we were planning on buying a gift card for Michael(Dave's cousin who got married today), but it turned out to be William Sonoma and we couldn't find a store near by enough on my Iphone, not cool! We ended up buying a picture frame and writing a message on the back of the fake picture that always comes with a frame and I tried to make Origami hearts to include as a gift, but I couldn't remember how to make them so in the end one looked like some kind of a triangle and the other was a rocket like object... well we will let the bride and the groom figure them out.

アウトレットの後にデイブの親戚の人達のいるホテルへ顔を出しがてら行って披露宴の時間までのんびりしている伯父さん、伯母さん達に会ってきました。６時半頃に家に向かってホテルから出発したんだけど、本当は３０分で着くはずが事故でもあった訳じゃないのに超渋滞で１時間半かかってしまい大変でした。
After the outlets (yes plural...two different parts of Long Island) we met up with Dave's extended family at the hotel before they went to the reception part of the wedding so we could drop off our gift and they could play with Madison a bit...we left the hotel at about 6:30pm and were looking forward to our 30 minute drive home, but the Long Island Expressway (expressway...don't make me laugh) had some other ideas...we actually hit the worst non-accident traffic we have ever hit in our six years of city living...it took us an hour and a half to get home and for the life of us we couldn't figure out why everyone was going towards the city at that hour on a Saturday.

今日、デイブの両親と教会で待ち合わせをしてブルックリンにあるファダっていうフランス料理のレストラントでお昼を一緒に食べました。リンダお婆ちゃんの鞄で遊んでいるマディソンとスティーブお爺ちゃん。
Today Dave's parents came to worship with us and then we went into Williamsburg, Brooklyn for a late lunch at Fada, a French Restaurant with a very yummy menu. Here grandpa is holding Madison while she plays with Grandma's purse.