The end of September was the National Book Festival in DC. I went to see Laura Bush (and had a pretty good seat, too!)
And stood in an incredibly long line for two hours to get
Hunger Games stamped by Suzanne Collins. She was by far the most popular author at the festival.
The night before the book festival I partied with some of the ladies from my book group at Georgetown Cupcake. There was a TLC show last summer called DC Cupcakes, that was about this cupcake shop. Amazingly, the line wasn't too long for a Friday night and we only had to wait about ten minutes to get our cupcakes. Verdict: the frosting was yummy, but the cake was only okay.
The first weekend in October we had a neighborhood luau. It was very fun with lots of good food.
Another day in October I drove to Amish country in Lancaster, Pennsylvania to do some shopping. It was a gorgeous day and we had fun.
On the internet I found out about a volksmarch that started near Arlington Cemetery, called the USA Freedom Walk. I met Kent during his lunch hour and we went on the 6km volksmarch. We walked past the Marine Corps Memorial and around the edge of Arlington Cemetery. That was our very first volksmarch in the US! We went on three volksmarches in the three weeks we were in Germany in September.
At the end of October we drove to Shenandoah National Park to see the fall colors. The leaves were past their peak, and not nearly as pretty as when we went last year. You can see from the picture below that lots of other people were out looking at the colors, too.
The park was much more crowded than it was last year, but I think that's because it was a lovely day, and last year it was rainy and misty when we spent the day at the park.
These last pictures are of local attractions. Only a few miles down the road from our house is the sandstone quarry on an island in the Potomac (see last entry
) that was used to get the stone for the White House and the capitol building. It was just opened as a National Park, with a mile and a half path through the island.
The historic church below is about two miles from our house. It was built in the 1750's, and the sandstone on the corners is from the same quarry on Government Island.
The end of September was the National Book Festival in DC. I went to see Laura Bush (and had a pretty good seat, too!)
And stood in an incredibly long line for two hours to get Hunger Games stamped by Suzanne Collins. She was by far the most popular author at the festival.
The night before the book festival I partied with some of the ladies from my book group at Georgetown Cupcake. There was a TLC show last summer called DC Cupcakes, that was about this cupcake shop. Amazingly, the line wasn't too long for a Friday night and we only had to wait about ten minutes to get our cupcakes. Verdict: the frosting was yummy, but the cake was only okay. 
The first weekend in October we had a neighborhood luau. It was very fun with lots of good food.
Another day in October I drove to Amish country in Lancaster, Pennsylvania to do some shopping. It was a gorgeous day and we had fun.
These last pictures are of local attractions. Only a few miles down the road from our house is the sandstone quarry on an island in the Potomac (see last entry) that was used to get the stone for the White House and the capitol building. It was just opened as a National Park, with a mile and a half path through the island.
The historic church below is about two miles from our house. It was built in the 1750's, and the sandstone on the corners is from the same quarry on Government Island.
3 comments:
You sure keep busy! There are a lot of exciting things to do in your area. It makes Texas feel that much more boring. :)
Ditto what Lissa said! I was looking at all the pictures thinking "wow, they are taking advantage of all the awesome sites in their area!" You are busy, busy. It's fun to keep up with your travels :)
You all have lots of fun adventures! :) That was a good seat at the Book Festival.
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