Stay-cation

Well, we're still waiting for the CD of our wedding pics to arrive in the mail, so no wedding pics to post yet! Thanks to everyone who made the trip out to DC, we hope you all had a wonderful time (despite the massive rain storm!) So instead, we thought we'd share a bit of our 'staycation'. After the wedding we took a week off and stayed somewhat local to enjoy some time with friends and family that were still in town. Thanks to those who visited with us after the wedding - it was fun sneaking in some extra time for catching up and hanging out!

Sunday night post-wedding we had a great visit with our friends Dev and Beth from Phoenix. Dev and Beth are the first friends that we made together as a couple, and we miss hanging out with them now that we've moved across the country. Dev completely surprised us by unveiling his present Sunday night.


I think we were both speechless for a few seconds. Dev and Beth - thanks so much, this is the most thoughtful gift we've ever received. We love that we now have a wonderful painting of Billingsley to constantly remind us of our wedding day!

Marty, one of the groomsmen, also stuck around for an extra few days and Jeremy and Maria took the whole week off to hang with us. We forced them to eat ALOT of left over BBQ:


We drove out to the Udvar-Hazy Air and Space Museum - much cooler than the one in downtown DC. This one is a HUGE hanger dedicated to displaying full size planes - including my favorite the Concord and even the actual Enola Gay:




Next came lawn seats at a Depeche Mode concert! They sounded great, and their LED full animation display that filled the entire stage was bizarrely amazing to watch. It felt for a few hours like we were back in the 80s!


On Wednesday we went to Annapolis for the evening - Jeremy's cousin is a captain on the Woodwind, a tourist sailboat, and was generous enough to get us all a free ride!


We got a little wet...


and afterwards had some amazing seafood at a dive restaurant near the water. They even had a viewing area for the live crabs:


Lastly, it was off to the beach for a few days. We went to Ocean City, MD and then drove to a few of the smaller beach towns in Delaware. Surprisingly enough, a short drive over the Bay Bridge out of Annapolis on our way to the beach - it almost feels like you're on vacation already.


On the following Sunday we went downtown to see the rest of our family off. They had a great time seeing the sites!


Now that everyone has gone home, we're back to work and life as an old married couple! Yesterday we finally remembered our camera when we went out on our bike trail. As usual we encounted deer within the first few minutes:


We biked to the botanical gardens a few miles away which has a paved bike loop through the woods:


Biking back on the trail in our neighborhood:


Friday night we went to a historic theater in downtown Silver Spring to see the new flick, Julie and Julia. The movie (about Julia Child's life and a modern foodie who decides to cook her way through Julia's recipe book) put smiles on our faces for the entire 2 hours. We left the movie inspired to cook new recipes more often. Last night we celebrated 2 weeks of married life by cooking Pasta Primavera from our favorite recipe book, The New Best Recipe. Tasty!!!


Stay tuned, wedding pics should be here shortly!!