Tired. A good tired. Full weekend. I only have the energy for pictures. Lots of them.
Two sisters, Dottie and Christine, drove in for the weekend. We also saw friends: Eddie, Jay, and Paula (and Rob vicariously). Having not planned much for the weekend we suddenly had a huge party! Friday night Dottie, Christine, Eddie, and Jay came to our house arriving at different times. We stayed up talking until well past midnight. The boys decided they wanted to go out. Us girls stayed up a little longer then hit the sack so we could start early on Saturday.
Day two started at Pamela's on the strip. We all ordered the famous hotcake crepes with fruit. These are amazing.... however, if I were to do it again, I'd have one of us order the crepes and the other two a savory dish and split everything. I couldn't finish mine due to the sugar content (I will say I've been eating little to no processed sugar lately so this was overload.) We walked the strip looking in all the little shops... I showed the girls Penn Mac (Pennsylvania Macaroni Company) and Wholey's - two local staples.
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| Amazing hotcake crepes at Pamela's |
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| Christine and I at Wholey's |
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| Popeye the Sailor Woman (Wholey's) |
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| Maryland Crabs at Wholey's. A favorite food of mine as it holds many, many family memories from growing up. |
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| Some of the olives at Penn Mac |
In the afternoon, we took the kids to the pool where Ryan preferred swinging (our neighborhood pool has a play structure right next to the baby pool. Natalie and Ainsley were little fish.
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| Ryan saying "Mom!" with his Auntourage.... |
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| Aunt Chrissy swimming with all my kids while I sit on the side of the pool. Not kidding! |
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| After warming up to the idea of not being held by someone, Ainsley bounced around the shallow end on her own or held onto the sides to keep up with her sister. (We tried teaching her to swim to no avail) |
Henry spent most of the weekend right here, grilling up wonderful dinners.
One of the girls made this card for "Aunt Dottie"
We finished the weekend (Monday) at Liz and Kenny Smith's house hanging out by the pool, swings (with Ryan of course) and checking out their bees. They have honeybees!! Of course, I took no pictures.
Hoping to be very focused this week on getting the house organized and weeds pulled. Probably won't get both in.... what's in store for you this week?
So glad you could have fun and unwind from your busy month with Ryan being in the hospital and being away from home. How did you get out of the sugar pit? Thinking it would help even out my blood sugars.
ReplyDeleteIs it weird that as soon as I saw the pic of the olives my mouth started to water LOL! Loved the pic's
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ReplyDeleteSounds like you had a great weekend with your family. I can't believe I never visited the Strip District when we lived in Pittsburgh (drove through, but never stopped). I have to laugh - they sell steamed crabs by the pound! That is just wrong, but I wonder if it works out cheaper than buying by the dozen?!
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Annapolis, MD
Auntourage Haha! Love it
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Sound like a great weekend! Love Ryan's cute face, as well as his sisters'. :) We went fishing and kayaking with our friends & their kids. My 5 monkeys absolutely loved those stuffs. Now they beg us to go river tubing. :)
ReplyDelete@ Katie - Dottie thought of the word Auntourage... :)
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