Originally I started writing this post a few weeks ago but got too busy and had to rename it from weekend recap to end of summer recap..OOPS
I'll start off with the last weekend in Aug. What an awesome weekend! The weather in DC was perfect! What was even better was that my sister Ruth came into town on thursday night for a long weekend visit. We woke up friday morning, relished in the fact that neither of us had to go to work and took off for a walk with Bailey on a glorious, sunny, cloudless and most importantly workfree day. It was awesome. We came back from our walk and decided to do our normal Ruthie comes to town routine and hit all her favorite fairfax shopping spots. Our first stop was the brand spanking new Nordstrom Rack that opened the day before within walking distance to my house (yes, be jealous)! The new store is great, super clean, organized and loaded with lots of cheap, but formerly expensive items. The shoe section, especially for men is great. They had loads of cole haan men shoes for $60. The shoe section overall is also great because you no longer have all these left shoes where you have to go ask them for the right one to try on the pair. The lingerie section is also fabulous. I scored some great calvin klein bras for $10 (normally $50).
Saturday rolled around and my neighborhood had a community yardsale. My sister in law Anita lucked out because 99% of the sales were baby things which her Mom, twin sister Christine and I proudly scooped up for the 2nd newest baby to be in our family. For about $200, she got an almost new chicco travel system (next door neighbors, car seat = no accidents), an awesome electric swing and few bouncers and an activity mat. Paul and I bought some books and a couple cute items to decorate with over the upcoming fall and winter holidays. All in all, it was a success! My sister and I did show up about 5 minutes too late for a beautiful $2 grey cashmere sweater. Probably for the best though; how would we have decided who got to keep it.
I had planned for us to go to Eastern Market, a local DC landmark that we'd all never been to. Apparently, I was the only one who wanted to go :( Instead they wanted to go outlet shopping. Still cool by me, but hopefully one of these days this born and raised DC girl can make it to Eastern Market! After the outlets, our neighbors told us to hang out with them that night at the nearby Tarara winery. They were having an 80's band at their outdoor pavilion. I love Tarara and I love summer picnic concerts, so this was an awesome saturday night. Sadly though, Tarara no longer carries their most popular and my personal favorite: red table wine in a pretty blue bottle.
Sunday was my Uncle's wedding. It was held at the cabin john park in Bethesda under this HUGE sycamore tree. What a beautiful and simple wedding. I'm so happy for him that he was finally found such a great woman. Perfect weather for a perfect couple on their perfect wedding day.
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