Some crab, some wine...and a broken computer.

4 Day Weekend

Will, Colin and I had an eventful 4 day weekend! Makes it hard to go back to work tomorrow...

On Saturday, we had Uncle Eric & family over to celebrate Aunt Wendy's birthday! We had a lot of fun eating dinner, visiting and playing Guitar Hero. One thing that was not overly great about the evening, was that our air conditioner was not working. The thermostat had the temperature as 90 degrees, which was as high as the thermostat would read. It was pretty miserable. To add to that, not knowing that the air would not be doing its part in keeping us cool, I chose to make a crab bisque to go along with a chicken and veggie dish that was prepared in the crock pot. So, a hot meal in a very hot home! At least the food turned out really well...I was excited to try the crab bisque recipe I had. Even with the heat, we managed to have a good time and enjoyed spending time with our adorable nephews and Colin's Aunt and Uncle.

On Sunday, Will took Colin to Dale City to spend some time with his mom and dad. I got to spend time with a girlfriend from work and her friend. We went to some wineries close by. It was a great day...nice weather, great wine and a delicious lunch! I was good and only bought one wine, a really good dessert wine from the first winery. For lunch we went to this place called Magnolia's. It is an old mill turned into a restaurant. I had a portobello sandwich. Delicious!

While trying to find the last winery we ended up driving too far. We discovered this by the "Welcome to West Virginia" sign! This was my first time in the state, but it was getting late so we did not get to spend too much time there. Oh well, I will make Will take me back, I have heard the area is beautiful! I want to head that way for an outdoorsy vacations. At our last wine tasting stop, we were given our money's worth (tasting fee). I think I counted 13 or 14 wines that we tasted. I had been to this winery before and it is one of my favorites. They have a Zeus wine (red) that is really good (if you like dry wine) and they end with their raspberry dessert wine that you drink with piece of chocolate...VERY delicious!

Monday was not our favorite day of the weekend. Our home computer got a virus, which messed with the operating system. We tried to fix it ourselves, but gave up and had to have the Geek Squad at Best Buy do the job for us. Since my class is online, this made doing homework a bit difficult. Bright side! I think I have convinced Will to get wireless...now I can use my laptop to do homework. Yay!

Tuesday was wondeful! Colin let us sleep until 8 AM! That has not happened in a very long time. We had breakfast and got Colin to daycare around 10 AM. Will and I went to the mall, got some fancy coffee and walked around until it was time for our movie to start. We saw Star Trek. Very good movie! I do not remember much about the series but the parts I did were referenced in the movie. Afterwards, we had a nice lunch at an Italian restaurant. It was so nice to spend time with Will, just the two of us. But it is hard to go stay away from Colin, so we picked him up early and went home for some familly time.

Oh...Colin is saying banana...or at least he is trying to say it. It comes out more like..."nanana". So cute! The poor guy has been teething, so he had trouble falling to sleep last night. He ended up sitting on the couch with us until about 9 or 9:30...late night for the little guy.

What a wonderful weekend!