This past week seemed to be long, busy, and basically just got away from me! I'd like to take this opportunity to wish my BFF Kell a very happy birthday (on the 21st) and my bro a very happy birthday as well! (on the 22nd) Hope you all had wonderful days and that you got to spend it doing anything you wanted! Although, since your bdays were on Thursday and Friday respectively, I doubt you did ;) hehe so I hope you both had a great weekend!
This weekend we went CAMPING!!!! Yes, camping on October 23rd :) Luckily we did not go on Friday night as we experienced the first frost of the year and it got into the 30s!! Saturday was in the low 70's, and dipped into the 50s at night, but was definitely comfortable.
We went with friends and went for a moonlight kayak tour in Pohick Bay!! And since the full moon was on Friday, it was alllllllmost full so it was pretty easy to see out there on the water. It was a guided tour with about 15 people. It went along at a leisurely pace, stopping every now and then to point out different things (certain trees and plant life, beavers and their dams, osprey and bald eagle nests, great blue herons, and an actual osprey. Unfortunately the bald eagle wasn't in the tree that night, boo!) It was so much fun! It was about 2 hr 15-30 mins on the water and we went about 6 miles. The water was so calm, not even a ripple. At times it made it hard to get your bearings! I had to keep looking over towards shore to make sure I was moving some of the time! The moon in the sky looked exactly the same as the moon in the reflection in the water since there were no waves or ripples or anything up against my kayak. Very strange! It was so clear out too that when we were paddling towards the moon, it was almost like going into the sun; it was a little bit blinding! I really wish I had some pics of it (they probably wouldn't have even come out though) btu I'm glad I didn't bring my camera since I did get pretty wet out there! Luckily I wore lots of layers so I wasn't cold at all.
Then we made a fire, ate s'mores, and did the standard camping things :) It was great to get out again since we only went one other time this summer! And it was great that it was nice and cool and we got to bundle up to sleep! I even slept in until 8:30!!! Amazing! I slept soooo good. I love camping sleep!
Today has been spent cleaning up from camping (washing all of our smoke-infested clothes, giving all our dishes/pots/pans a thorough scrubbing so they're ready to be put away for the year, etc.) and I took a trip to the mall with Erin. I got a couple of pants at LOFT for 50% off which I'm pretty pumped about! Even more exciting than the sale (if that's even possible) is that their petite size fits me so well! Usually I'm about 1" too tall for petite length, but 3" too short for regular sizes, which can be sooo frustrating!! (Although Insull changed my life by introducing me to Heat 'N Bond - you iron this glue/tape stuff in to hem pants, which is great since I can't sew! I actually tried it for the first time on Friday...I think it went well, but I haven't worn the pants yet so we'll see. :) The true test will be how it holds up to washing I think.
So now here I am, doing anything to avoid the realization of tomorrow being MONDAY. But I"m very excited for Friday: it's Momma's birthday (YAY!) and we're going on a Haunted Tour in Old Town Alexandria (we're doing the Special Halloween Tour, if you click the link and are interested) that takes us through some haunted buildings as well as some graveyards!! Spooky! :) We've never been on a tour like this so we're pretty excited! Hopefully we'll see a ghost or 2! Even if we don't, I'm sure it will be a fun experience with friends!
Here's some pics from the weekend:
Our campsite
Pohick Bay - where we went kayaking. This place we huge; it goes much farther in both directions
the canoes and kayaks for later!
the beach where we take off from for the tour
finally - looks like fall!
So as usual, I hate to say goodbye to the weekend. It was a great one! Halloween fun next weekend then off to NY for Kristi's wedding, which brings us to November!!! Soooo, where is 2010 going?!
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