This past Sunday the weather here in Maryland was simply divine so we headed down to Washington DC early to walk around a bit and enjoy the sights before heading to Siroc on 15th for dinner with friends. Okay, maybe I should not have worn my black boots for walking, but hey, I wanted to feel pretty. You know, in all the years I have lived here, I don’t think I had been down to DC on a Sunday. That place is absolutely dead, it was almost impossible to find a parking garage that was open. I was completely blown away when all the coffee shops had closed by 6. We eventually found a little hole in the wall kind of place that served instant coffee. Not my idea of a great coffee experience, but it supplied the needed caffeine.
At 7:30 we (husband and I) strolled over to Siroc and met our friend Javier who was visiting from Chicago. As a surprise he had also invited a mutual friend Coqui. My husband Phil had met Javier and Coqui when he worked on the school newspaper at SMU. Conversation topics at the table ranged from politics (of course, we are in DC), to marriage, to fabulous NYU law seminars (including dinners at fancy NY restaurants) my husband enjoyed during his year there, to Latin America and the drug problems in Mexico, to thoughts of where we would wish to retire some day, and finally to our adventures in parenting. We were the last table to leave and had spent about 4 hours talking, it was just wonderful 🙂
On Monday Javier’s flight wasn’t leaving till about 7PM so we decided to take a jaunt out to Annapolis and enjoy steamed crabs at Cantler’s. Another divine day of low humidity drew us to sitting outside by the water. After lunch we headed into downtown Annapolis walked around and enjoyed the remnants of our weekend, sans children. Before leaving town to head over to my sister’s house (she had brought our boys back from their visit with Nana and Boompah) I bought them some fake “gold teeth” that they could wear with pride. Just a little something to welcome them home. It was perfect.