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The Friday night knitting session was a big success. Lots of good conversation, lots of good food, lots of good knitting going on. In fact, I managed to finish my toilet paper sushi cover. Here's a before:

"Good grief, what an unattractive roll of toilet paper. Somebody should do something about that."

and here's the after:

"Big improvement. I wish I had one!"

It's good to finish a project, even a small one, and this one was a lot of fun, so that's a plus. I'd like to find one more color to fill in a little more of the top. I'll have to continue digging through my scrap yarn pile.

On Saturday we headed out to the mall in search of some new pants for Henry. He's outgrowing all of his current ones at an alarming rate. We went to Old Navy where Dave picked a few pairs out. He got a few in large-looking 2T's and a few in 3T. When we got them home it turned out that although there's lots of length for him to grow into with the 3T's, the waists are already a little tight. I put him into the 2T's yesterday and they fit perfectly. It's very odd. Anyway, one of the big attractions at the mall we went to is the indoor carousel. My dad and I took Henry on one when we went to Edaville last year and he seemed to enjoy it. This time around though, it was bad news. He was fine until Dave put him on one of the horses, at which point he started to sob. He had calmed down ever so slightly by the end of the ride, but he was still pretty unhappy. Poor kid.

Sunday morning Dave took Henry out to lunch. I loved it because not only did I get a few hours to myself, but I think it's great that they got to spend some time alone together without me breathing down their necks. When they got home, Dave said they had a great time, then he mentioned something about making it a regular thing, after which I started doing a happy dance then plotted out all the things *I* could then make a regular occurrence. Here's what I've got so far: nap, take a long bubble bath, nap some more.

Next week is Dave's spring break. We both want to get out of town but can't think of anywhere to go. We have so much we should be doing around the house that we should probably stay here, but we're both pretty burned out so a change of scenery would be great. Plus, if we stay around here, Dave'll just go into work, whereas if we physically remove him from temptation, Henry and I get him all to ourselves. Also we're broke. Anyone have any suggestions for interesting places to visit that are inexpensive and sort of close to Central PA?