Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Weekend Visitor

After the 14+ hour drive, Mom arrived for a four and a halfish day visit in Annapolis this past Friday (Mom, sorry we didn't move to a place where the drive was any shorter than the one to TX - almost exact same distance!) I gave her a tour of the apartment building/complex and we then chatted on the sofa for a while before Matt got home from work. Dinner a few hours later was crab cakes outside by the water at Pusser's. A perfect first trip to Annapolis meal.

Saturday was furniture moving day. Matt and I had reserved a U-Haul to pick up the new table & chairs (in a really neat neighborhood on Turkey Point in Edgewater). We then used it to load the old ones & Matt drove them up to his cousins home while Mom and I had lunch at Whole Foods and played downstairs in the shopping center. For supper I made chili and we watched the Auburn game, grateful we didn't have to sit in that monsoon.

Sunday we woke up fighting little head colds so we took it easy and skipped church. Later on we drove downtown to explore by foot. We had lunch at Cafe Normandie, enjoyed the view from City Dock, walked around the Naval Academy and had a great tour of the Maryland State House from Squire Frederick. We covered a lot of ground and learned a lot about the history of our new home. That night we snacked on imported boiled peanuts from Alabama and watched The Good Shepherd on TV.

Much like the other mornings, Monday began with coffee on the roof. While Matt was at work I took advantage of having a car during the day and ran some errands. Mom and I also went back downtown to walk around more and eat a late lunch at the Market House.

On Tuesday I took care of more daytime car-worthy errands after which Mom & I drove to Ikea in DC (my first time driving on the Beltway!!!). That place is soooo neat. Later we refueled with Pumpkin Spice latte's from Starbucks and did some shopping. It's always fun to take a peek at the sale rack in Ann Taylor Loft and see what bargains may be waiting in a consignment shop. And because it was Tuesday we got the buy 1 get 1 free pizza special from Whole Foods. This time it was even yummier because we ate it up on the roof under the glow of the moon.... ahhhh... was a very pleasant way to end the visit.

2 comments:

Sarah Grace said...

Ok reading that makes me want to be your next weekend visitor!!! We are very close to buying those tickets, just need to try and figure out childcare. Yeah baby!

SPECIAL SPECK said...

Ahhh!!! Starbucks already has the Pumpkin Spice Lattes for the Fall? Arrrg...those are my FAVORITE but they don't have them here...or the Chai Latte...my two favorites...what a ripoff Starbucks : ) Do you think you could mail me a PSLatte? Ymmm. [P.S. (mosoun--the verification word I had to type to post this comment--weird because it is really close to monsoon, which you mentioned in this post about the Auburn game)]