Monday - July 31

Cannot believe it's the last day of July...........we were up and packing and organizing our stuff to take with us in the truck.    Good-byes and hugs to all and away we went with Mark driving Miss Daisy pulling Toad and me in the truck.   Stopped at Allison's in Morganton for breakfast and then put Daisy and Toad in storage.

 

Trucking along on another spectacular day (after all the heat and humidity, we've been having much cooler less humid sunny days).    I helped with the driving for 2 hours.

 

What a busy, crazy, fun 2 weeks.......Maeve is really going to town with her walking starting Saturday....she just took off!

 

We'll be back in 6 weeks for more visiting and pick up Daisy and Toad and return to IL for 2 weeks.

Here's some more memories

 Cousin hug

 Davis and Maeve playing with
the magnetic tiles

Going to miss these 3

A bunch of boys on the trampoline
 

 We arrived in DC at The Yards at 6:30.    It was 93 but with the lower humidity (43%) did not seem so bad!     We unloaded all our stuff on Catrina, parked the truck and left for a celebratory drink and dinner at "Due South", a southern comfort food restaurant that is just a short jaunt.    Excellent (Mark had Carolina trout with spinach/cream cheese stuffing) and I had a watermelon, tomato, mozzarella salad - yummy.   Then we splurged and shared bread pudding with warm caramel, bourbon sauce and ice cream!!!    Oink, oink!

Tomorrow we'll get back to exercising/walking/biking and watching the calorie count as these past 2 weeks have been vacation time....so much good cooking by Annette and Brooke!

After dinner we went for a nice walk past the Nationals ballpark along the Anacostia River - it is a beautiful evening!     The unpacking will have to wait till tomorrow.    We are tired!