Japanese steakhouse

This place is so yummy and fun! We went for the first time and went back not even a week later it was so good. Oh and it's top on our list of places to take Mom & Dad D when they're down next week.

Home Improvement

Back in June, when Henry had the month off from work, we had planned to rip out our living room carpet and install hardwood. Here are photos.First Henry decided to tear up a small area to see what was underneath. But it meant he had to move a lot of the furniture and it wouldn't be very livable.

So just about everything got moved into the spare bedroom.

Then we decided doing it ourselves with the shape of the room and never having done it before probably would be risky, so we would pay to have it done. So this was my living space for the day while the new floor was installed.

And the poor babies spent almost every minute here:

They would come out if the noise stopped long enough but then it would start again and they were back under in a flash.



And finally......THE FINISHED PRODUCT:


WE LOVE IT!!!!!

DC trip Day 3 pics

DC trip Day 2 pics

To explain the order a little bit: we got to the Natural History Museum sometime around 2pm or so and it was PACKED! I got shoved repeatedly and got really claustrophobic trying to see the Hope Diamond. We had tickets for the International Spy Museum at 4pm so we saw just about everything and headed to the Spy Museum (which by the way, was the only one we had to pay to go through--$35 total--and was NOT worth it at all!). The Natural History Museum happened to be open until 730pm that day instead of the usual 5pm. So we hurried back about 6pm. Found a couple new areas we hadn't seen and went back to the Hope Diamond with only about 10 other people there! The entire museum had really emptied out and was much more enjoyable.

DC pics

Got the slideshow fixed, so enjoy!

DC trip Day 1

What a day! Got in about 3pm and after checking in to our hotel, headed downtown. I really did not want to have the stress of driving but Henry wanted to. So we made it down there in one piece and since we hadn't eaten since 9am, went to eat at Hard Rock Cafe. Very yummy and filling! Didn't completely finish mine and still did not eat any "supper". Then had our first incident.....a parking ticket, darn it. So we moved to a different place and headed to the International Spy Museum that was going to be closing soon so could only purchase tickets for tomorrow. This is where the second incident occurs. Both needed to use the restroom so we went in, and I had my sunglasses hanging on my shirt, bent over to flush and there goes the glasses. I thought there is no way they are going to be able to fit and reach to grab them out and touch them and they're gone! Thank goodness even though they were Fossil glasses, I only paid $10 for them and needed new ones (which I purchased in the Spy Museum gift shop for $12). So it's a great story to laugh about. Third incident came when driving home and Henry thought he could make it through a yellow light and turns out they do the red light photos. So we have a $25 parking ticket, flushed sunglasses and probably a $75 red light ticket all in just 5 hrs! We still have 2 1/2 days left here! Was trying to post a slideshow of most of the pics taken today but having problems so the one above is my favorite. Did I mention the weather was perfect?

Capitol, here we come!

I am so behind on blogging. At this point I doubt I'll post everything that I would have from the past couple months if I had stayed on top of it. But anyway.......tomorrow morning we are heading to Washington DC for a long weekend of sightseeing!! I'm SO excited!!!!!! And I figured out this afternoon it's because it is the first time in quite a while that it is a real vacation without some big stressful event (wedding/funeral/etc) and a large distance to travel and it's not a major holiday. So it should be really enjoyable. Just trying to remember not to be too crazy and get stressed out if we don't get to see/do everything! Happy weekend to all!