Sweet dreams are made of this
Spent the past weekend in Highland County at the annual Maple Festival. Friends from our DC days met us there and we shared a cabin in the George Washington National Forest for the weekend.
We were the first to arrive Friday night and faced the often awkward task of figuring out sleeping arrangements. There was a lower level with a large bedroom, king-sized bed, private bath, and a sitting area with a tv. The other bed was a double bed in a loft area above the main gathering/kitchen area. My nature is to always defer to others to have the nicer accomadations - I hate conflict and don't want to be viewed as taking advantage. Karyn had a very good argument for us sleeping in the lower level - she and the girls tend to sleep later than other people and their kids. I thought the other couple would be pissed, but finally chose to let the girls decide. They wanted the loft, so that's where Karyn and the girls ended up - I ended up on the couch...
We settled in, then headed back out to find someplace for dinner. We came across a "pizza joint" (Haley's words) named Jason's and stopped there. There were spinning stools along a counter and the girls wanted to sit there so we did. The pizza was good and the people that ran the place were very friendly. They suggested we have some dessert, so I decided to share a piece of apple pie with the girls. I rarely am in the mood for apple pie, but figured we were out in the country so it might actually be good. It was fantastic. The crust was made with maple sugar in it which gave the pie a hint of maple taste. mmm.
We returned to the cabin, played a game of Scrabble (I won!), got the girls to bed and opened our St. Patrick's Day beverages. The other couple and their two kids arrived later in the evening. They got their kids settled in and then we stayed up until 3am catching up.
Saturday we headed to a maple sugar farm then to the town of Monterey to enjoy some pancakes with local maple syrup. I tried the buckwheat cakes and really enjoyed them. We did some shopping around town before heading back to the cabin and just relaxing for the evening.
Sunday we packed up the cars and headed to Warm Springs to check out the The Inn at Gristmill for a possible future trip. We also checked out Hot Springs and had lunch together before heading our seperate ways.
It was a nice trip - beautiful countryside, good friends, family, yummy food, etc. A few things to remember for future trips:
We were the first to arrive Friday night and faced the often awkward task of figuring out sleeping arrangements. There was a lower level with a large bedroom, king-sized bed, private bath, and a sitting area with a tv. The other bed was a double bed in a loft area above the main gathering/kitchen area. My nature is to always defer to others to have the nicer accomadations - I hate conflict and don't want to be viewed as taking advantage. Karyn had a very good argument for us sleeping in the lower level - she and the girls tend to sleep later than other people and their kids. I thought the other couple would be pissed, but finally chose to let the girls decide. They wanted the loft, so that's where Karyn and the girls ended up - I ended up on the couch...
We settled in, then headed back out to find someplace for dinner. We came across a "pizza joint" (Haley's words) named Jason's and stopped there. There were spinning stools along a counter and the girls wanted to sit there so we did. The pizza was good and the people that ran the place were very friendly. They suggested we have some dessert, so I decided to share a piece of apple pie with the girls. I rarely am in the mood for apple pie, but figured we were out in the country so it might actually be good. It was fantastic. The crust was made with maple sugar in it which gave the pie a hint of maple taste. mmm.
We returned to the cabin, played a game of Scrabble (I won!), got the girls to bed and opened our St. Patrick's Day beverages. The other couple and their two kids arrived later in the evening. They got their kids settled in and then we stayed up until 3am catching up.
Saturday we headed to a maple sugar farm then to the town of Monterey to enjoy some pancakes with local maple syrup. I tried the buckwheat cakes and really enjoyed them. We did some shopping around town before heading back to the cabin and just relaxing for the evening.
Sunday we packed up the cars and headed to Warm Springs to check out the The Inn at Gristmill for a possible future trip. We also checked out Hot Springs and had lunch together before heading our seperate ways.
It was a nice trip - beautiful countryside, good friends, family, yummy food, etc. A few things to remember for future trips:
- make sure the accomodations will work for everyone involved
- you can never have too much toilet paper, but you can have too little
- don't try to get much accomplished with 5 kids
Eurythmics / Sweet Dreams
posted by r.m at 8:59 AM
1 Comments:
Good to see you Karyn and the girls last night. I enjoyed the dinning out as much as I did the show.
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