Last weekend we rented a car and a big house in the Poconos Mountains and spent three days and nights in Pennsylvania with Aunt Jeni & cousin Lily from Illinois and special friends Shannon & Greg from Texas.  Other close friends joined us for a break from the city that included cozy fires, amazing cooking, walks and runs near the lake, a hike near some waterfalls, hot tubbing, hammocking, spiral staircase injuries, games of pool and foosball and the usual amount of singalongs.  It was a sort of Goodbye to All That celebration for we 3 Schremmers and the 2 Sharmans (moving to California in a few weeks), and also for our oft travelers to NYC who no longer have such a good excuse to come visit.

And it was a great reminder to us all that as long as you put a little effort into it, dear friends & family will stay in your life no matter where you each live.  (Please come visit us!)