The Ciccottos Visit

Our friends, the Ciccottos, moved back to New York pretty early into the pandemic.  It was an understandable choice once Pete's job at Google went fully remote and the importance of being near family was brought into sharp focus because of the circumstances of an uncertain world.  But we missed them.  A lot.  Leo and Serafina kept in touch with the kids via social media and I text Mary regularly.  

Their visit to California wasn't only to see friends and family.  Their older two daughters were signed up for several college tours.  This brought them to town during a particularly busy weekend for Serafina since she had both boot camp for her dance team as well as choreography sessions.  But we did our best to facilitate as much visiting as possible.  

This meant on Saturday night, this gaggle of girls went with me to pick her up from the dance studio.  They were excited to surprise her.  

From the studio, we made a quick trip  to Target right before closing.  They declared they needed to get the ingredients for their s'mores lasagna, which was a recipe they made up at a sleepover many years ago.  Oh and they needed matching shirts too.  

Gotta document their creation. 

The matching shirts were Lizzy's idea so she could have them recreate this photo from March of 2019. 

Serafina spent the night, even though she had a long day of dance on Sunday. 

On Sunday, most of the Ciccottos came over to hang a little bit and hear Leo play guitar.  

It was wonderful to spend time with the Ciccottos. We hope to make it to New York at some point to visit family and to spend more time with them.  Like most visits, it went by way too fast.