Cambridge, MD

Since Wednesday I have been in Cambridge, MD. I had a lot of fun! Even though I love traveling to the other locations, it was nice tobe close to home, so that Will and Colin could come up for the weekend. So much to talk about...where to start??? Well, the hotel was BEAUTIFUL!! There was so much to do. Plenty of pools, sand volleyball, a huge gym, golf, beautiful trails and of course the bay. A great place to relax and was just wonderful. Most of Thursday consisted of meetings. One of which we were split into teams and had to build a boat out of cardboard and one member of each team had to paddle the boat through a coarse in the bay. The guest speaker this year was the founder of Cakelove. A bakery in DC, which has now grown into 7 stores over the northern VA and MD area. Even though I am not much of a dessert person (and actually did not try any of his cupcakes - I gave mine to Will - which he loved), I found him to be a very interesting speaker. He was a lawyer for the Federal Government but decided he wanted to follow his passion for baking. He is very into natural ingredients and baking everything from scratch. . So, for my dessert loving family members maybe we will venture to his store when you visit!
The food was wonderful! Maryland is known for their crabs (blue crab mostly), so of course, we had a few opportunities to have steamed crab and crab cakes. So, for the first time in my life I actually picked the meat from my crab. I had to break its legs off and everything (gross) I made myself try it and I only did one. The meat was really good, but I had issues with seeing it in its normal form (shell).I luckily was next to someone who has been eating crab like this since she was a kid, so she gave me a lesson.
So, this year Will and Colin came up for part of the week. It was great! I am usually not away from my two guys very often so I was really missing them. Colin loved the hotel, he was running around every where. On Friday night, Will got to play in his new band. They were fantastic! Will, John and Lloyd got to play about 6 songs during the middle set. They played "No Matter What" (Badfinger), The Joker (Steve Miller Band), "I'm Bad, I'm Nationwide" (ZZ Top), "Handle with Care" (The Traveling Wilburys), "Redemption Song" (Bob Marley) and "Brian Wilson" (Barenaked Ladies). They did great!!!!! I was so proud of Will! Everybody loved it!
The other star of the night was Colin! With the exception of when Will played, Colin was dancing on the dance floor all night (and I was afraid he was going to be shy)! He entertained everyone...they thought he was so cute! He even was chasing a friend's girl who is about the same age (I am probably getting a glimpse of the future, haha). I will post pics on myspace/facebook but not here since another person's child is in most of them.
 

We also got to visit with Will's aunt Mary Anne, uncle Jerre, cousin Kristin and her husband Terrick and son Garrett on our way home today. Will and Colin also visited all of them yesterday as well (his cousin Kevin was there then). We had a very nice visit.

It was such a wonderful week but I am so glad to be home!!!!