The final few official days of summer were spent squeezing out what would be the last of the warm beach days at Cape Henlopen State Park. We were here earlier in the Summer and had originally planned on camping with our family until one of our nephews became sick. This was our make-up trip.
BEACHES CAMPING MID-ATLANTIC Wildlife
Assateague Island National Seashore
Posted on September 13, 2012
I don’t know why it has taken me so long to blog about our trip to Assateague. Maybe I have been overwhelmed by all the pictures of ponies munching on grass because we took a zillion of those. Or maybe it’s just because Fall whooshed in practically overnight and all those memories of sand in swimsuits, cold (public) showers, humid nights holed up in our tent playing cards and swatting mosquitoes, breaking our flimsy body boards trying to body surf crazy waves, waiting out the rain in starbucks, and waking up in the middle of the night to a pony pushing his nose into our tent have started to fade away into a not-so-distant past.
Just a few more phone snapshots from last weekend in Richmond: the VMFA, the front of our townhome-hotel, and the view from inside The Roosevelt where we watched the rain come down in sheets.
It was our third time visiting Richmond this year. This time we met up with Sly’s parents for a late birthday/mother’s/father’s day celebration. We stayed in turn-of-the-century-townhomes-now-turned-historic-hotel, drank lots of coffee, visited many parks and museums, and ate a lot. A typical family outing for us. I really enjoyed the white house of the confederacy where an extremely animated and enthusiastic tour guide had us hanging off his every word. Continue Reading
We are headed to Richmond tomorrow to meet up with my Korean parents and for once I decided to pack the night before rather than scramble the day of. I’m really OCD when it comes to packing. I like to drive myself crazy thinking of all the mathematical day/night combinations of outfits that can be created with the fewest number of items. The hardest part for me is always figuring out what shoes to bring. When I told my friend this, she laughed and said, “why don’t you just bring/wear all black?” Then I asked Sly how he packed for a trip and he said, “I just grab whatever is clean.” This bewildered me.
The difference between boys and girls, I guess. Or maybe the difference between sane and slightly crazy. Am I the only one that packs like this?
More inspiration:
This site is pretty great.
We have been planning and postponing archery lessons for over a month now. I took archery in college and it’s something we have both wanted to do together for years. The classes take place on Fort Belvoir, are really inexpensive, and as we found out, are extremely popular with kids. (Is it because of the Hunger Games?) Even though the website says registration starts at 5:30, by the time we arrived at 5:10, the class was already completely booked.
Instead of class, the hubs gave me a tour of Fort Belvoir (a lot nicer than I had envisioned) and then we ate sushi at Matsui. Back in SF, we had a Monday tradition we cleverly called, “Sushi Mondays.” The idea being that Mondays sucked so much we had to give ourselves something to look forward to at the end of the day. We usually went to our favorite neighborhood place near our house in SF, but we haven’t been able to find something similar since living out here. Matsui was the type of unpretentious yet tasty sushi that you’d hope to find in a neighborhood place. Now only if it were in our neighborhood.
The hubs and I both love “crappy” weather. People that live in places with real “crappy” weather (like the PacNorthwest) always try to convince us that if we lived in a place where the sun only came out ten times a year that we’d actually hate it.
But I lived on the foggy side of SF for years and I loved it. People that lived in sunnier parts, or in warmer parts across the bay, would always laughingly ask me, “how’s the fog over there?” Like it was some joke. Joke was on them though because those were my favorite types of days: dark, cold, foggy, rainy days.