Two weeks down, 1 to go

Today was a very hard day to stay on the cleanse. We went to Grace and Melinda's engagement party. We thought the party was supposed to start at 2, but it started at 3, which really affected our meal plan for the day. We had smoothies for breakfast and brought smoothies for dinner, and Melinda said her brother would grill us chicken, which we'd have for lunch. Well, it's one thing to delay our only meal of the day from noon to 2, delaying it to 3 was really challenging. On top of that, when we got to the party, the chicken and salad hadn't arrived, so we were surrounded by people acting chips and salsa and couldn't eat. Liz couldn't stand it and ate one chip. I was impressed--if I'd eaten one chip, many more would have followed.

We allowed about 3 seconds to pass from the time the chicken and salad arrived until we filled our plates. I have to say, that chicken was really delicious!

It was fun to meet Melinda's family--her mother is one of 11 kids, so there were tons of aunts and uncles there. Her aunts and uncles have small families, though, so there werent many cousins. Our family, by contrast, is a giant pyramid. There are seven in my generation, 14 in the next, and 12 so far in the next--and that generation is only going to grow.

Here's a picture of my nephew Jay with his wife Liz, Liz, Grace, Melinda's mom Peggy, me, Melinda, and Melinda's brother Chris.


Before we went to the party, we went to Storm King, a sculpture garden nearby on 500 acres. We love Andy Goldsberry and new he had a stone wall there, but had no idea of all the cool sculptures that were there--and most of them are huge. Here's a section of the stone wall:




And here's a sculpture called the Three Legged Budha:



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