Just a Girl With Glue

A memorable weekend

it was this past weekend being both Mother's Day and my birthday. We decided to drive out to DC to visit Alex, after all he is the one that made me being a mother possible. On the way down we stopped at Cracker Barrel for breakfast and picked up a couple of audio books.... David Balducci's the Camel Club and the Collectors. Both are set in DC and concern government spy agencies. Nothing like driving through the streets of Georgetown and thinking.... "oooh that's where they hid the boat" or "That's Roosevelt Island where the murder was committed".
On Friday, Bob and Alex took the Metro into the city and went to the Spy Museum (how fitting) while I took the credit cards and went shopping. I can't do the kind of walking that these guys were about to do. Alex also took Bob to his office at NYRA and showed him around. Dinner was in Silver Spring at a newly opened Piratz Tavern with interesting decor, garbed staff and mugs of grog.
Saturday we decided to go to Old Town Alexandria for breakfast, but by the time we got there couldn't find a place that served breakfast, so it was lunch instead. We walked a little and shopped a little and then drove out to Mt. Vernon. I was there 40 years ago and was trying to remember how things were different. Somehow it seemed smaller.. will have to dig out those pictures from 1968. Dinner was back in Alexandria at a French restaurant where I had delighted in one of my favorite appetizers, escargot. Then back into DC to see a play, Peter and Wendy, the story told with music, puppets and a very talented main actor/storyteller who did all the characters. Sunday, church, brunch in DC and then back to Alex's house for an afternoon of cards and board games. Of all the things we did, just being with Alex and talking and laughing was the best Mother's Gift of all.