On Sunday we visited our old friends Alicia and George and their kids Tony and Marco. We had not seen this crew since we moved to Athens, so it was fantastic to have a chance to relax in the backyard and enjoy their company. The last time we saw them, they were living in the Lincoln Square neighborhood in Chicago, not far from The Old Town School of Folk Music. They live in Naperville now, a booming suburb of over 140,000 people which is maybe 35 miles west of downtown Chicago. For the moment, it's one of the edges of development in this area, mixing cornfields with new homes, stores, etc, but Alicia and George said that cornfields are getting plowed over for new buildings on an almost daily basis.
It was great to see Tony and Marco, who were both tiny when we last saw them. Tony is a big reader whose interests include animals and politics. He handily beat Kate in several games of "Democracy", thereby single-handedly emancipating Quebec, Puerto Rico and Cuba. Marco likes to draw around people's hands, enjoys The Wiggles (especially Blue Anthony) and is prone to enigmatic statements like "White rice is blue." Sadly, we left our camera at home, so we can't share a picture, but we'll be sure to get one soon.
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I LOVED it when they visited us. It was so fun playing Democracy with Kate. I like to free places like Tibet and Scotland that were once (or want to be) nations of their own, or are nations but do not have a democracy. I also liked a game called Capitalism, where you sell toys and encounter obstacles. Go Kate and Sue!
Tony,
We LOVED visiting you too! Hope to see you soon buddy!
Kate and Susan
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