Home Again, Home Again

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The summer bookend of Labor Day '09 has come and gone, and with it a trip to Washington, DC (well, technically, Arlington, Virginia) for our nephew, Jackson's, baptism. The ceremony was made even more special because Jackson's mom, our sister-in-law Amanda, was baptised along with her son, and the ceremony was performed by our Former Pastor, Bill Flamman.

We headed down to Dave & Amanda's early Friday morning, and I was reminded how much fun the area is and how much I miss it now that my BFF Sue no longer lives there. There was a time when the kids and I would take off for the weekend on Friday morning (direct, cheap flights), and come home on Sunday night. I always feel extremely awed and humbled to be in DC, and also extremely lucky to have had the opportunity to visit many times in the past, and the prospect of visiting a lot in the future now that our family lives there.

We did some of our usual favorite things: an afternoon browsing the stores and Torpedo Factory in Alexandria, lunch at the Austin Grill, a trip to the Eastern Market and a walk from Capitol Hill to the middle of the Mall. The heat! The crowds! It was craziness!

The entire weekend was one big food fest (I'm not complaining). On Saturday night we went to the famous Peking Duck, and also to an awesome (and very authentic) dim sum (Mark's Duck House) on Sunday morning after the baptism. I'm still stuffed. Of course, on the way down, and the way back, we had to stop at the Country Cupboard for a homestyle lunch and to restock on sticky buns. Ugh!

Mark had hoped that we could bring our Turkish rug back from DC, but it has not yet arrived with Dave & Amanda's household goods from Ankara. Oh darn! Looks like we'll need to take another trip down when it gets here!

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