Rainy Saturday

I realize these posts are a little disjointed, but I'm all over the map tonight as I try to update how this month has gone. Yesterday, Saturday, we ended up visiting Aunt Beryle and Uncle Dan. It was a good day to visit -- cloudy and rainy, a lot like Oregon, which probably explains why I was slightly depressed. Seeing them both cheered me up a lot. (Could have been crabby because of the zillions of errands I had to run, I only got to accomplish two of them because everything in Arlington is top #@$%! far away and I still haven't figured out all the established places close to home, plus I am trying to accomplish stuff that has needed doing for, oh, years now.)

Anyway...

We had a lovely visit, and ended up driving back through Alexandria because I had to drop off a watch for the second time at a watchmaker's. We got to walk around Old Town a bit, which I LOVE -- so many good places to eat; so many cute shops; I could spend an entire weekend just wandering there. (Lucky Drew, he got to live there before Rachel and I arrived!) We ducked into a French bakery and bought a baguette and some leek and goat cheese tarts; picked up cupcakes for dessert from Alexandria cupcakes; then went home. I helped Rachel with her American Girl doll crafts while Drew picked up Chicago-style pizza from Pizzeria Uno, which we are happy to have found in Falls Church; and then we all watched a pretty good American Girl movie. Altogether, a really relaxing day!