Sunday - Flying into Boston

Hello friends & family:
Here we go again! Yesterday Lulu and I boarded Virgin America and headed back east to Boston for the beginning of her junior year at Boston College. As the plane lifted off the ground at LAX, she remarked "It's been a great summer." And indeed it has been, with travels to Maui for our annual family vacation (this time joined by her delightful BF Chris), a summer internship at a Hollywood Entourage-type firm where there was lots of yelling, phone tossing, cupcake buying, and lunches down the street at Joans on Third, and discovering the delights of bargain shopping (my daughter, the Gold Card member at Lohmans). But all good things must come to an end, well actually the good things hopefully will continue... just in a different place (the library). As the plane headed down into Logan airport, suddenly it swooped up and...the pilot announced that he was "taking another go at it" due to a smaller plane coming onto the runway "out of nowhere..."
Lucky for us the weather in Boston is cool and sunny - unlike what we heard from the Morrisseys who were here during the hot and humid hurricane-threatening days.

This year Lulu is living off campus in a big house with 7 girls. We immediately got our rental car and went directly there, as neither of us had actually seen inside of the place. Lucky for us, her roommate's parents had come many days earlier than us "last minute west-coasters" and had taken care of a lot of messy details like getting locks installed on the doors, buying a shower curtain, outfitting the kitchen, ordering a dining room table & chairs, and setting up the all important flat screen tv. Lulu's job was arranging the cable, and she did an excellent job as the tv was working as well as the internet.

We unloaded her two huge suitcases of clothes (her bedroom is on the second floor -but no worries as one of the girl's hockey player boyfriend was lounging about on the first floor and jumped up to help us). The house is a big rambling worn down 2 story wooden building with a kitchen and bathroom (the bathroom is kinda ewww...) on each floor, hardwood floors, windows that kinda open, white walls painted who knows when (except for one of the bedrooms which is bright purple - which got me thinking... if I only had a little more time, maybe a fresh coat of Martha Stewart yellow on Lulu's walls, maybe accompanied by a fresh coat of white for the trim, and some flowery fabric for curtains or draped behind the bed......) OH a BED - that's right - we gotta get one!

After hanging up everything that would fit in the teeny tiny closet, we took inventory on what we needed to buy tomorrow at the various stores such as Ikea (a bed), Bed & Bath (everything), Target (who knows?), and a furniture outlet (a cheap sofa and coffee table...Lulu's assigned area to decorate is the living room Good God how about lamps, an area rug, a coat rack for all those winter coats...my mind swirling we got into the car and drove off to Newton's newly refurbished Marriott Hotel for some rest and relaxation. The tv didn't have Mad Men, but it did have last week's Hung and Entourage so we caught up on those shows while compiling an even longer list of "need to buy"...After a phone call to Bill to check the credit limit on the AMEX, we turned out the lights and struggled to go to sleep as we would keep thinking of something else we had to have, and scrambled for the pen and paper (wastebaskets, hangers, end table...),!!!)