Visit with the Clauss-Veals

Above, Callum plays with his "finger buddy" Michael. Callum really enjoyed "Trienta Uno Minutos," a Chilean children's comedy show featuring Spanish speaking puppets who make fun of the news.....

I put this next picture on here, just so I could hear my mom comment incessantly about this looks EXACTLY like me and how Callum makes the same faces I make, etc....
Amanda and I did a lot of drugs last night....
This is Wolff House on the UNH Campus. It houses the CENTER FOR ACADEMIC RESOURCES, where we both worked in college. A romance was born here.....

This is a historic blog: It is my first entry using a Mac. I decided to bring my Macbook home (since it has sat in my desk drawer for the past three years) in order to learn a little more about how these things work. The Goldsmiths would like to be Macs....right now we are PCs. We need to get a new computer soon, so maybe a Mac of our own is in our future???

We went down to Rochester NH for Friday night to stay with Andrea and Michael. After eating a good dinner of sausages, broccoli, and bean salad, we watched Callum run around their gray granite kitchen floor, trying to chase his reflection IN the floor.

On Saturday, it rained. Like crazy. All day. We headed over to our Alma Mater, the elite University of New Hampshire. We went to the MUB (Memorial Union Building) to check out what was new, and to buy Callum his first UNH sweatshirt. In retrospect, we have NO idea why we went to the MUB bookstore versus Hayden Sports, where we would have paid half as much....but I digress. So, after dropping 40 bucks for a toddler's sweatshirt, we went home. If it were nicer, we would have walked around the beautiful campus, but it was a nasty day. UNH holds such a special place in our hearts....it is where we met, it is where we fell in love, and it is where we lived for five years. It is part of us. We love it there. But we love our home in Maine.

We came home Saturday night and totally VEGGED out. Callum DID NOT sleep very well at Andrea's, waking up all night long. Plus, our inflate-a-bed kept going flat through the night. So we were very happy to sit at home, eat Asian Cafe, drink tea, and listen to the rain. I will report, too, that Callum's chimney and freshly sheetrocked room were bone dry during the four inches of rain we got! So good news.

So that is it. I am off to Portland for a conference tomorrow. And now we are going to go watch some Netflix. After I buy the new Blackeyedpeas song on iTunes!