So, as I mentioned, my mother-in-law was recently visiting, and I was on the hunt for interesting places we could take her that would be easy, and very “DC”. It wouldn’t hurt if the thing we chose to do was cheap or free, and would take advantage of the lovely weather and the fact that […]
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Out and About – Mount Vernon
My mother-in-law was recently in town, and I was racking my brains about things we could all together so she could be with the baby, enjoy the outdoor weather, get there by car(s) (since there are enough of us in the family now where with a visitor we don’t all fit in one vehicle), and […]
Out and About – Watson Adventures Scavenger Hunt
Obviously I like a good puzzle. I’ve done a few escape rooms (including one I haven’t written about here), and the most monstrous and brain-tangling of all scavenger hunts in DC. My friends know that I’m competitive, and that I like to challenge my brain. So for Christmas, our friends A & D gave us […]
Event – The Patrons Show
More than a year ago, my coworker told me about a fundraiser she’d been to that weekend. She was pregnant at the time, and was excitedly telling me about the piece of art that they’d acquired for their little boy’s nursery. It sounded interesting, but I think I was concerned with other things and not […]
Travel – New York City
Let’s travel back in time. It’s the week before Christmas. I’m at work, when suddenly my phone rings. It’s the Boy. He is ecstatic because one of his work friends gifted him with two tickets to one of the sold-out New Years run shows by Phish at Madison Square Garden that he (the Boy) hadn’t […]
Travel – Montreal
Late in the summer/early in the fall, the Boy and I started looking around to where we might go for our “long holiday weekend travelling” in the fall. One place we’d talked about for a while was going up to Canada – so close, and still technically foreign! And with the Veteran’s Day weekend providing […]
Travel – Warner Bros. Studio Tour London: The Making of Harry Potter
I think this summer for me marks 18 years of loving Harry Potter. We have English family friends, and in late 1997 or so, one of them sent over a book that was popular and she thought we might enjoy – “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone”. My mom – hearing that there was […]
Travel – London (Activities)
Have you picked up the hints I’ve made recently about traveling? Well, the boy and I took his girls on their very first overseas adventure and to make it as easy as possible (and for a few other reasons), we decided to make London our trip. We both love the English countryside, and it would […]