Earlier this month, my (Ariel's) parents (Nonna and Babba), and my
sister, Laurel (Yaya), came to visit! We had a smashing good time.
I'll let the pictures do the talking.
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| No Nonna breakfast is complete without "green drink" (and "green goatee") |
Nonna came ahead of the others to help with the house. We started right off visiting places we used to go when my family lived here.
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| A little break for some pogoing in the back |
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| We were all pretty impressed. |
Next trip down memory lane: Cabin John Park for their Halloween train ride
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| Sometimes I just can't help myself. |
Then Babba and Yaya joined Nonna!
First item of business: the park.
Next up: Butler Farm for playgrounds and pumpkin-picking!
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| Me with my pumpkins |
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| My pretty Momma smiling at her grand-boys |
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| Too cool for school |
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| Photo Contest Winner, Fall 2011 |
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| Abe's favorite part. |
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| Last day of being 16 |
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| (The slide wasn't as long as it looks.) |
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| I have a pic of myself in this witch's mouth when I was little! |
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| Making nice with the locals |
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| Perfect Maryland pre-birthday dinner |
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| When Abe was full, he hopped off his seat and we found him at the bar. He wanted to get a better view of the hockey game. |
The next day we went into DC for some of the attractions.
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| Merzi . . . yum. Fast Indian. |
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| We hit up the art galleries before checking out some monuments. |
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| The new MLK memorial is quite impressive. |
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| Mandalay Restaurant. Another satisfying win. |
Birthday Breakfast, followed by another delightful day in DC
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| Tour of the Capitol |
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| Library of Congress |
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| Supreme Court |
Sunday we enjoyed a walk to Abe's future school.
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| Pretty cool path to school, eh? |
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| 10207 Oldfield Dr., the house where I grew up! *sniff* |
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| Kensington Parkwood Elementary, my old school never looked better. |
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| A nice walk in Rock Creek Park |
What better way to end than good food, a book and a hot shath?
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| I DO NOT like them, Sam I am! |
That actually was not the end. Babba left early Monday and Nonna, Laurel, the little boys and I went to the Baltimore Aquarium.
Stay tuned . . . sometime in the next few days we'll post about how we transformed this room (formerly known as The Ugly Room):
Now you have a little idea of why we haven't been blogging--we've been busy!
