more adventures

After the wedding, and a brunch at Tim & Ellen's house on Sunday (where I at entirely too many pieces of the best.bacon.EVER), Dexter and I got together with a roommate of mine from college.  Amanda and her husband live in DC, so drove the hour to see us.  The goal was to get some dinner, but this proved to be a challenging excursion because everything was closed. The greatest city in America is deader than dead.  It was nice to see them and catch up a little bit. I'm loving reconnecting with people I haven't seen in years.  This is definitely one big bonus to being on the east coast again.

On Monday Dexter left in the wee hours to catch a 5 AM train back to Newark (ugh) and at a more reasonable time, my parents and I drove down to Williamsburg, VA, to see my mom's half sister, Dorothy, who is 93.  They have the same father. Dorothy was his first born, and my mom, his last born.  Dorothy and my mom's mom were especially close and so a relationship eventually blossomed between her and my mom, too.  Dorothy is amazing, I think. Her memory is still sharp, she lives alone (!!) and is witty as ever. I'm so glad that I got to see her again, and that she got to meet Kyalo. We were only there a couple of days (and did no site seeing, unfortunately) but it was a sweet reunion.

 doesn't she look amazing? I hope to look this good at 93!

It had been a LONG week for Kyalo, and he was pretty much at the end of his rope.  We wanted to get some charming photos of him with Dorothy & my mom, but that just wasn't to be...

On the way back to Newark, we made a bit of a detour to go to Ocean City, MD, to see Dorothy's son, Robert, and The Alaska Stand, a burger joint on the boardwalk that has been in their family for almost 80 years.  If you're ever in Ocean City, I highly recommend you swing by. The burger was very good!  And chances are pretty good that Robert will be there taking your order, answering the phone, or just saying hello.

 yum

 kites!

Kyalo really needed to get down and dirty. . .

Robert, my mom, Kyalo

It was a wonderful trip, but it was also very wonderful to get back home and to get back into a bit of a routine.