{"id":4899,"date":"2010-10-13T10:33:22","date_gmt":"2010-10-13T15:33:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/graceuncensored.com\/WordPress\/?p=4899"},"modified":"2010-10-13T10:33:22","modified_gmt":"2010-10-13T15:33:22","slug":"va-vacation-5-bull-run-groceries-dinner-camping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/graceuncensored.com\/WordPress\/uncategorized\/va-vacation-5-bull-run-groceries-dinner-camping\/","title":{"rendered":"VA Vacation #5 – Bull Run, fancy grocery store, lebanese dinner"},"content":{"rendered":"

this was a continuation of the last two entries, written last monday when we were camping at the westmoreland state park in VA:<\/p>\n

Sunday, on to the Bull Run battlefield, where there were two different battles, one of them the very first battle of the war.\u00a0 It was a beautiful place and hard to imagine the carnage.\u00a0 Some reenactor guys were demonstrating shooting with their muskets.<\/p>\n

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it was such a beautiful day…<\/p>\n

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the guys were dressed in a variety civil war uniforms.\u00a0 whose bright idea was it to have blue against grey?\u00a0 it’s amazing that they weren’t constantly shooting their own guys, since the colors are so similar.<\/p>\n

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thad, kevin and mollie enjoyed walking around the grounds.\u00a0 mollie laid down in the shadow of the cannon because it was kind of warm in the sun for a black dog.<\/p>\n

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here’s stonewall jackson, and i wish i’d taken a closer picture of him.\u00a0 he looked like a disney cartoon character with ridiculously bulging biceps.<\/p>\n

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We drove out of the main battle area and found Bull Run creek.<\/p>\n

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thad took this picture of us and i looked at it and said I CAN’T BELIEVE MY STOMACH WAS SHOWING! and i was kind of freaking out about it, and he immediately said he could photoshop it so it didn’t look like it was exposed.\u00a0 but i guess it doesn’t look so bad; it’s ghost-white, but it’s not like it’s bulging out over my pants or anything.\u00a0 i do have to say that mollie isn’t framed so nicely here, but she does tend to move around a lot when you try to take her picture.<\/p>\n

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we took a walk down a circular path, and kevin had to stop and stick his hand in the water so he could say he was in Bull Run.\u00a0 it’s a civil war thing.\u00a0 mollie also splashed around, a dog thing.<\/p>\n

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After we\u2019d gone about halfway along the path, we came across a guy and his daughter walking in the opposite direction, and he asked us about the path, and we told him it wasn\u2019t very long, and not hard.\u00a0 He said he\u2019d left his mother a ways back, and could we tell her to come and join them?\u00a0 I asked him what her name was, and he said \u201cadrian,\u201d and he hemmed and hawed and then finally remembered what kind of blouse she was wearing, not that there would be lots of older women standing around by themselves on the trail.<\/p>\n

We started walking and his daughter yelled out \u201cshe\u2019s got an \u2018A\u2019 necklace!\u201d<\/p>\n

Pretty soon we saw an plump, nicely-dressed anxious-looking woman standing on a little hill.\u00a0 She was wearing a blouse and skirt and pearls. plus tennis shoes that looked brand-new.\u00a0 She smiled apologetically at us and we asked if she was Adrian, and she said that she\u2019d given up.\u00a0 We assured her that the going would be easy, and she kept apologizing.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t point out to her that it didn\u2019t matter to us if she sat there all day.\u00a0 She clearly wasn\u2019t a hiker.<\/p>\n

Sunday night, Kevin and I left Mollie with thad and drove to my friends Rob and Kelly\u2019s.\u00a0 we had a fantastic Lebanese meal at a place called the Lebanese Taverna, and if you\u2019re ever in the area I highly recommend it.<\/p>\n

Their daughter Katie is 10 yeasr old already, really tall, really really bright, and I\u2019m afraid she was probably bored out of her mind as we sat there talking and talking.\u00a0 I\u2019m not very good at trying to engage kids in conversation, probably because I don\u2019t have any of my own.<\/p>\n

I did think it was great that she\u2019s going to be Lady Gaga for Halloween, and she described the costume in minute detail.\u00a0 No wait, is that what she\u2019s going to be during the day?\u00a0 Because she\u2019s going to be something during the day, and something else at night.\u00a0 She\u2019s clearly very enthusiastic about Halloween.\u00a0 I should somehow try to get them to come to Spfld for our next Halloween party, not that Katie would have such a fantastic time because there wouldn\u2019t be any other kids there.\u00a0 Maybe we could rustle a few up somewhere.<\/p>\n

Katie also told me what she\u2019s planning to be NEXT Halloween.\u00a0 Wow, that\u2019s planning.\u00a0 I wonder if she\u2019ll change her mind before then.<\/p>\n

Kelly and Rob are a lot of fun, and I wish we could have spent more time with them.\u00a0 It sucks having friends far away if you don\u2019t get to see them very much.\u00a0 If only I was a flight attendant, I could go zinging all around the country all the time, unless I could only get a job on one of those horrible tiny little commuter planes and would be stuck flying between Springfield and Chicago and St. Louis all the time.<\/p>\n

here we are at the fantastic lebanese restaurant, and i wish there was also a picture of rob.\u00a0 next time.<\/p>\n

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When we got back to Thad\u2019s house, he was kind of traumatized.\u00a0 \u201cMollie was SO DEPRESSED,\u201d he kept saying.\u00a0 \u201cI kept trying to pet her but she was afraid of me, and every time a car went by she lept up on the chair to look out the window.\u201d\u00a0 He then demonstrated how Mollie would cower and look depressed.\u00a0 We should have warned him that she has lots of separation anxiety.<\/p>\n

We left Thad\u2019s house yesterday after going to the BEST GROCERY STORE EVER.\u00a0 It\u2019s called Wegman\u2019s and I think it originated in Buffalo NY.\u00a0 It\u2019s huge and fancy and they have more of everything than I\u2019ve ever seen, including a seafood bar where people would sit at the bar and order all kinds of seafood plus wine.\u00a0 Thad says he\u2019s seen people on dates there.\u00a0 i took a few pictures with my cell phone of just a tiny amount of the fancy stuff they have there.<\/p>\n

the olive bar just went on and on and on.<\/p>\n

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these two fancy things aren’t cakes, they’re cheese wheels.\u00a0 the one on the lest is blue cheese with all kinds of nuts and fruit and deliciousness on top.\u00a0 i guess you can read the signs well enough to see what they were.<\/p>\n

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more and more cheese stuff…<\/p>\n

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the only bad thing is that i wasn’t feeling particularly hungry when we went to the store, so all we bought were a few brie-stuffed dates and a whole lot of loose leaf organic lapsang souchong tea.\u00a0 i mean, do any other grocery stores anywhere carry that much tea?\u00a0 i sincerely doubt it.<\/p>\n

on the other hand, it’s probably a very good thing that i wasn’t hungry for all the fancy food because we would have spent way too much money plus i don’t really need all that fancy cheese plus all the other tons of fancy goodness they had there.<\/p>\n

ok, i have to stop here – the entry from sitting in the park goes on even more, but i took so many pictures when we were hiking around that i don’t have time to post them right now.\u00a0 there are many more virginia photos, and i’m posting them just as fast as i can, but i have to take time to clean my house which was filled with camping stuff plus we got all the halloween tubs out of the basement yesterday, plus things are just general chaos around here.<\/p>\n

more later, i promise..<\/p>\n

ok then,<\/p>\n

gh<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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