Fun at The Flying Monkey~~Tremont Art Walk, July 9th, 2010

Beau, Tracy, Ali and Meg on the back patio at The Flying Monkey.

Friday night a bunch of us got together at the Flying Monkey in Tremont for the Tremont Art Walk.  I (Mary Ann) have a solo exhibit hanging at The Flying Monkey.  So what better reason to get together and have some fun?

I thought Jim looked somewhat like Grandpa Scott in these shades.  By Grandpa Scott I mean Harold Scott.

You can never have enough sunglasses. (The sunglasses were freebies.  Promotional giveaways for a pale ale.)

Me with some of the art.  The show is up for the rest of July and through August 10th.  I'm hoping to make it down to the Taste of Tremont this Sunday (the 18th).  Good food, Good art!

Caitrin going to Australia!

Big news!!!  Caitrin received her overseas student teaching assignment!!  She has been placed at Springfield Primary School in Perth, Australia, this fall.  She will be there from mid August to December!!!  Congratulations Caitrin - very exciting!!!!!

Meet Larry!

Hi Everyone! I just wanted to introduce you to Larry - the new Sedivy family pup! He's about 11 weeks old and just "too stinkin' cute!" (Direct quote from Meg, Caitrin, and Justin!)

Here comes a Scott Family Wedding!!!

To those of you that don't already know...Eric and I got engaged today!!! :) Just wanted to share the good news with all of you! I will keep you posted on the date/plans once we start deciding those kind of things!

~Ellen

Happy 4th!

Hello!!!  It's July 2nd already...I don't want to rush the summer along, but it seems to be flying by!  Went to the Indians game tonight with the Sedivy's and Brant!  Fireworks after were fantastic...Indians lost...Ali introduced us to Slider!

I've been back from Turkey for a few weeks now...what an amazing trip we had!!  Thank you John & Rose for being such wonderful tour guides and showing us so much!  Turkey is beautiful and the people are so friendly!  And the food was excellent!  Two weeks wasn't quite enough...I'd love to go back!  It's hard to pick pictures out of the 1800 that I took!  But here are just a few!

Istanbul - top picture. Taken from the rooftop terrace at the Hanedan Hotel, with Hagia Sophia in the background. 
Selcuk - bottom picture.  Taken from the rooftop terrace at the Homeros Pension...with the Artemis Temple in the background - one of the 7 Wonders of the Ancient World!!  You can barely see it back there, but it's there!  The rooftop terraces were wonderful - one of my favorite things about Turkey!  In Istanbul we had happy hour every day on our terrace overlooking the Bosphorous!!

Bodrum - top picture. Our hotel is the tallest building - the Otel Gulet! Bodrum looked very Greek to me - very, very close to the Greek Islands!!

Cappadocia -bottom picture. These are some of the amazing Fairy Chimneys!!

The Library at Ephesus...it was incredible here!!

I got home from Turkey on Thursday, June 10 (Mom & Dad's anniversary!) and went to Chautauqua on Saturday for a night.  Then last weekend to New York City for the weekend with Bill.  We went to visit Carola from Germany - she is living in the Bronx for a year, maybe two and her parents were visiting from Germany!  So, now I am staying home - no traveling for awhile!!!  Except to Vermilion for the 4th!!

Lakewood is becoming the place to be!!!  We have 3 new residents!  Justin moved to an apartment on Clifton near Gladys and Beau & Tracy moved to the downstairs of a house on Westlake!  And Ali moved to a new house on Lakeland!  Who's next???!!!

That's it for now...I am considering going back to the actual newsletters!  Seems that may be the way to go...I'm not sure if the blog is working!!  Let me know!

Just a few thoughts...

Hello!
It is a gorgeous May evening...and I am taking a break from packing for Turkey!  Hard to believe I leave with Peg & Dave and Charley & Dee Dee on Thursday to visit John & Rose!  It's been a busy week and it's only Monday!!  Last night of course was the Lost finale...would have loved it soooo much more if ABC would not have had technical difficulties!  What a night for that to happen!  There is much to say on the series finale and I'm sure next time we're all together, we will discuss and discuss and discuss!!!  A few word summary:  life, death, love, redemption!

Tomorrow we honor mom one year later...it's going to be a mixed feeling kind of day.  melancholy, sad, happy to be thinking of her too.  I'll miss the anniversary of dad's death on June 9 - but am grateful that I'll be with Peg, Dave & John.  We'll actually be leaving John that day to go back to Istanbul to fly home the next day.

I wanted to post now and update the birthdays, anniversaries...since I'll be gone til June 10!  Til then...adios!

May Update!!

Well...it is Monday, May 10 - Happy Birthday Brad!!!  I have been saying over the last week to different individuals "Oh, that would be a good post for the blog!"  And then I forget to post.  So, I will attempt to share some of the news that has been happening!

Clare - Congratulations to Clare on her new job!!!!  Today was her first day at Westlake Montessori!  She will be working with the babies, toddlers, pre-schoolers...she'll start off as a floater (is this correct Clare?), then will help run their summer camp program (welcome to the world of camp!)!!  Very exciting!

Justin - Sticking with the theme of moving to Lakewood, Justin will be moving to Lakewood on June 1!!  He's moving to an apartment on Clifton at Gladys...close to Lakewood Park!  Welcome to Lakewood Justin!!!

Ali - Also moving on June 1!!  Ali is moving to the downstairs of a double on Lakeland!  It just happens to be the same address as her old place on Bonnieview - 1278!  Play the lottery Ali!!

Happy (belated) Mother's Day to all mothers!  I met Kathy, Peg & Jim at the cemetery yesterday...we put the vase in so if you visit the cemetery you can now bring flowers!  It was so beautiful to see how many people go to the cemetery on Mother's Day!  And it was a bit sad and melancholy too...

And last but not least - I thought I'd share a photo.  I was at Mary Ann & Bob's Saturday night...and Ali took this pic of us!

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