This is reading material. There’s a lot of it. So, if you’re looking to kill some time on a lunch break, this is your chance. So…the long awaited OBX blog. Yeah, I know our vacation was like…a month ago. So what? Quick preface: this was our first “real” vacation in 3 years. Since the honeymoon….
Last D.C. Blog: Birthday Dinner & Arlington
Finally getting this up. Sorry for taking so long. My Birthday dinner was at this Italian restaurant, Tosca, near the White House. Expensive yes, but totally worth every penny. Delicious going down. Not so much coming back up when I got sick that night because I had some sort of bug, but still worth it….
>Capitol City Birthday Weekend Extravaganza: Day 2 Part 2
> On to the memorial place of our 16th President. Ol Honest Abe. I love the ceiling in the Lincoln Memorial. Pretty. No Sliding Down Banisters… On our way to the Korean War Memorial. Part of the FDR Memorial. Jefferson Memorial…yes we walked all the way over there. All flippin way. And then we took a…
>Capitol City Birthday Weekend Extravaganza: Day 2 Part 1
>On Friday, we did the touristy thing and took the Metro into the Smithsonian station. Cindy – being very Asian. Love her. Onto our first stop – the National Museum of Natural History. Everybody loves a little nature. Now for a respite from all the kiddos and because the rain had “let up,” we decided…
A Capitol City Birthday Weekend: Day 1
So if you haven’t figured it out yet, Rem took me to DC for my 25th birthday. My best friend, Cindy, lives there and I hadn’t seen her since our wedding – the visit was long overdue. We took a lot of pictures though and it was difficult to pare them down into a reasonable…
Melton Hill
Earlier this week, we went to Melton Hill so that Rem could get some photos for his friend James. James is writing some sort of comic novel based on a biblical story, but he lives in Texas and doesn’t have the right landscapes for his drawings. We had awesome light and Drew tagged along too!…
Cades Cove
We made a little Sunday trip to Cades Cove a few weeks ago to have a picnic. We took some cheese, crackers, apples and grapes to enjoy. Our picnic was nice aside from the bugs and heat bearing down on us. Then it got cut short by a big ol black bear walking across the…