Wednesday, June 29, 2005

A(nother) Lovely Little Day

S.M. consented to be hauled off to Curves yesterday morning for a workout, where we ran into our friend Lenore, who was excited to see her and Vanessa, who still works there, as well as one of the new staff members who quickly surmised that we were sisters. So, of course, it was all a bit of a chatterfest as well as a workout. After a rinse off and a change of clothes at home, we headed to Bethesda for lunch and shoe shopping at One Step Up, as well as the reconnoitering of a couple of local smaller art galleries, one of which turned out to be closed. But I did order a new pair of sandals, Mephistos, and we learned what we needed to from the gallery that was open, and lunch at Bacchus was delicious. So it was worth the field trip even though the weather was still tres miserable. We let ourselves recover a little from the exertion of the outing and then tidied up and got tea ready for when Cindy and Kathleen arrived, both with interesting, though very different news. Cindy's involved one daughter getting married and another having a baby and Kathleen's, a truly horrible divorce story. Cindy also brought cannolis, which were insanely delicious. We were hardly hungry enough to eat dinner by the time Jim bicycled home, even though it was a little late and even later by the time we got to Arucola. Turns out to have been fortunate, though, because we had to wait for more than half an hour for a table. So by the time we were seated, we had regained our appetites. As today is Carey's last day here, she got up this morning to say good bye to the Goofy One before he left for work. I'll take her to Union Station by subway later today to catch her 4:00 train back West. I'm already sad. I hate it when she leaves! Boo hoo!

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