Been a busy time.Last Wednesday we left the four puppies at the kennel and headed out to Washington DC for a business conference. Ah, yes and if you're going to go to a conference do so at the Mandarin Oriental because it's nice. Very nice. We had a view of the Washington Monument from our window.
Dinner Wednesday night at Ristorante i Ricchis and the food was amazing, as was the service and the company. Hello Veronica and Guillermo Villa. Thursday was a trip to the Hillwood Estate. Marjorie Merryweather Post's estate in DC. 25 amazing acres
near Rock Creek Park. No pictures of the inside 18th century porcelain collection or the Russian icon collection, but the gold fountain outside the breakfast room was a wonderful treasure.
Dinner that night was a gala affair at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum. Can't resist those pictures with statutes. Here's Tom back in the 20th century and then me!
The Gala was a fun time and oh, ask me sometime about the dessert options. Let me tell you, Towers Watson does many things right, but they go way past right into incredible for dessert!!! All good things end and we left the Mandarin Oriental for the Embassy Suites near the Convention Center and the Marine Corp Marathon. This 35 year old marathon started with just 1175 runners [four of whom have continued to run in each and EVERY marathon since] and this year there were 30K plus runners. It was amazing. Running on Sunday October 31, from Arlington Virginia into DC, past the Pentagon, Crystal City, The Mall, Lincoln Memorial to Rosslyn.
Here are our three marathoners: Lori Shannon, lovely niece and starter of the running craze in our family. Miss Meghan on the right and fiance, Greg Vogt on the left. A marathon time of 5 hours 37 minutes and 5 seconds for all three as they held hands and crossed the line. Limping and tired they were thrilled to have finished. A long walk across the bridge [because the Metro lines where HUGE] to Georgetown and a snack at Rhino Pub
on the main street with Mike Braun, Lori's boyfriend, Bayley and fiance, Dan Hockradle. All in all it was a great week. Not much writing on my part, a little revision and a need to get home and focus. But I must say the puppies were most pleased with our arrival on Monday afternoon and
were happy to be home. They each found their favorite part of the house. Missy, the coonhound on the far right, on the chaise upstairs. Marcus, middle back, on the couch in front of the TV, Sammy, the little rat terrier in front, who is afraid to venture up stairs stretched out in the middle of the bed and Grady, the Queen and old lady of the pack, just followed me around and sat where ever I was stopped.
So. home now. Emails answered and sent. Bills recorded, paid and filed. Clothes washed and ironed --well, not ironed. The wedding plans are four hundred and fifty miles to the north. Tom is at work. Just a couple of more SCBWI Carolinas stuff to finish off. But me? I can get my mind back to Aaron or Tommie or even Jerome Sue. I have three weeks, then its off to the north again. <sigh> I need a better system!
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