Last night was a beautiful night out. The weather was perfect. Georgetown, where we first lived together as a newly engaged couple, was action packed with all the pretty people. We managed to have a drink by the water/people watch and make it to our dinner reservation, no problem. It was 4.5 hours of bliss (although we did eat a rather large amount of food a little too late). To not have the diaper bag was a real feeling of freedom, even if we were only a 10 minute cab ride from home. We should do it more....famous last words.
Today had a wonderful second half. We drove out to the park by Reagan National Airport and watched the planes coming in to land. The little guy got the biggest kick out of it. He would point at the planes flying just overhead and start yelling and jabbering in his special language that only he understands. The babe was a big grumpy pants, but we managed to ignore it enough that it didn't ruin the experience.
We then took a chance and did something crazy. As we were already in Virginia, we decided to pop over to the Outback Steakhouse for dinner (despite the fact we went to a "real" steak house last night). We thought it would be cool to do something special with the kids as it was just Canada Day, our Anniversary, and it's Independence Day tomorrow. This restaurant welcomes families, has booths, serves your food fast, and is good at dealing with food allergies (in our rather limited experience). I have to say it was about as successful as I could expect, even though we constantly felt like we were one step away from chaos. I managed to scarf my pasta down while trying to get the kids to eat their steak and chicken. They basically ate the snacks I had in my bag already. We didn't break any dishes or glasses which felt pretty good (at one point we had 9 glasses of various liquids on the table!). A very different experience from our dinner the night before!
Anyway, it's the long weekend so the good times will continue. Hope you're all having fun out there.
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