I'm so excited to tell you all about our weekend get away that I nearly posted on Wednesday, the day after my last post. But, posting two days in a row might be too much of a shock for my readers (are there any still out there??? I think that most have given up on me....), so I held back for a few days.
We stayed in Fredericksburg, which is just about 30 minutes from our house. Its a wonderful town with a college, lots of gee-oorr-geous stores, and restaurants. It also has an adorable downtown neighborhood that I've nudged Glenn about moving to, but its just a bit too, too far from DC for us. For the weekend, it was perfect--a great place to get away from it all, but practically no travel involved.
We stayed at a beautiful inn, the Kenmore Inn, pictured above. I selected it for not just its looks, but -- get this -- there is a pub ONSITE. Yes, indeed, we could have our drinky-poos & just stroll on upstairs. Love it. Here is a photo of our room:

This is the beautiful garden that was just under our window. This photo doesn't do it justice. Look at how beautiful the flowering trees were:
We spent Saturday strolling around town.

Yum. You should have smelled the brownies baking in there. I, of course, couldn't leave without a dish of "Death by Chocolate", which contained those same brownies. Had to check out if they tasted as good as they smelled, doncha know.

This drug store still has a soda fountain!!


This store!! Oh my gosh, I could have spent hours & hundreds of dollars in there. Vera Bradley, Crabtree & Evelyn & April Cornell heaven. In addition to so many other goodies. Here is a peak inside. If you click on the photo, you can see all of the delicious displays close up:
Glenn walked in & immediately said "Uh, honey, I'm going to wait for you outside" My response: "Too Froo-froo for you?" Him: "YES"
There was also a to. die. for. clothing store called Monkees that was more than a wee bit out of my price range. But, I had fun looking & figuring out mentally how I could copy the looks when I went to TJ Maxx :)
After shopping, we spent a few hours on the patio of a restaurant, reading. Anyone read The Glass Castle ? DO. I read the entire thing that evening. After that, browsing in a used bookstore & then dinner at the Inn's restaurant. Really, just perfect. It was so wonderful to spend time with Glenn & just be a couple.
Of course, the next day, we returned home & the sweetest thing in the world was to have Hopie shout out "Mommy! Mommy!" the moment that I walked in the door. Life is good.