The disgusting, sweltering heat of summer has finally left DC. Thank God! After a week or two of 100 degree, 100% humidity-filled days, we are finally getting some beautiful weather. The temperature has dropped a good 20 degrees, to a balmy 80. The humidity seems to have left us for now (you guys think Brisbane is bad, try putting up with days that are so humid that the air is hazy), and we've been blessed with some absolutely gorgeous weather. I can finally walk from the house to the car without becoming drenched in sweat. Yay!! Hopefully the summer days are over, and fall is on its way in. Autumn over here is so beautiful - days are filled with the oranges and reds of leaves preparing to fall, and rainy days are few and far between. It is truly wonderful how the seasons change over here. It's as though you can almost tell exactly to the day when one season ends and the next begins. It's much more drastic and exciting than than the seasons back in Australia. I don't think that "hot" and "not as hot" really qualify as being seasons!
Anyway, Jeremy and I took full advantage of a beautiful day on Saturday by spending our afternoon at a local winery. We decided to pack a picnic lunch and head on out to Chrysalis Vineyards for a tasting. Being that we'd never picnicked (hmmm...that word doesn't look quite right...) before, we first had to find ourselves a fancy picnic basket. Well, apparently people don't believe in picnic baskets anymore. We searched online and then at two stores without any luck. Finally we settled on a picnic bag from our favorite outdoors store, REI. Although I had my heart set on getting a basket, the bag is pretty damn cool. It's all decked out with plates, cutlery, and wine goblets for two, as well as a cheese board/knife, a wine cork, and an insulated bottle holder. Woo! I guess we did pay a small fortune for it, so if it didn't have all those extras I'd have been disappointed. After picking up some food we were on our way. The winery about 30 or so minutes from Jeremy's, at the base of the Blue Ridge "mountains" (I'm not convinced they really are mountains). It was so nice, picnicking with our fancy backpack and our bottle of wine. We left with our stomachs full, and with 3 bottles of wine. What a great day!!
Then, on Sunday Jeremy and I both woke up feeling less than perfect. I'm not sure if it's just because of the sudden change in the weather, but we both have pretty minor headcolds. So we spent the morning sniffling and feeling sorry for ourselves, and then decided to head out to brunch. We decided on Harry's Tap Room in Clarendon, which is about 30 minutes drive from Jeremy's place. We had been there before for brunch, and the food is so delicious! I had the Crab cake Benedict, and Jeremy had an omelette (with a Bloody Mary, of course). Mmmmmm...What a good way to spend Sunday morning.
And that brings me up to now. It's Monday morning, and for some unknown reason the kids woke me up at 6:15 with lots of yelling. Apparently they had thought it was ok to go downstairs and turn on the tv/computer, which had inevitably led to a fight. God knows why they would do that, seeing as they both know that they are supposed to stay in their beds until 8am. Boy was I mad. Especially because they aren't even allowed to watch tv because they slept in their parents bed instead of their own (which is something else that makes me incredibly mad, but oh well), and to top it all off I had barely any sleep because of my stuffy head. So now I'm tired and a little cranky, and the girls are both tired as well. I'm thinking that they might be taking a nap after lunch today, whether they like it or not. Oh boy, I'm so mean!
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