Up early again, and met Susan (our realtor) at our new house in Old Town. The house is fantastic! It’s really big, and has an absolutely fantastic outlook over woods. It’s really quiet, but only a 10 minute walk to King Street with all the bars and restaurants. After a quick look round, we headed off to open a bank account (at Chevy Chase Bank – no really!! Didn’t realise he’d gone into banking did you?? Kidding – its an area round about here which he took his name from.), then we headed off to Target to start the mammoth round of buying things for the house. Target is great – it sells everything from clothes to garden furniture! The store is huge, and I think I schlepped about 5 miles round and round the aisles! My feet certainly thought that anyway!!
We dumped that load off at the house, then went to find Safeway to stock up on the essentials – beer, wine, water and soft drinks. The nice lady on the check out gave us a Safeway members card (despite the fact that she didn’t have any application forms) which saved us around $20!
Then, we headed back to Target for round 2 of the mammoth purchasing spree…and covered another 5 miles up and down the aisles!!
As it was Stephen’s birthday I let him choose the dinner venue – so we went to the Union Street bar for drinkies, then Chadwick’s for ribs. Delicious!!! After dinner I insisted on having some say on the evening, so we went to Ben & Jerry’s for a tub of ice cream and walked along to the waterfront and sat on a bench to scoff – just like a local!!
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