The Wives hit the shops...

Well Hilary and I hit the shops yesterday. I think our respective husbands were waiting on the smell of burning plastic to come wafting over the greater Washington area, but we were actually terribly restrained! We did the tour of useful places - the local post office, the laundry, the wine shop and then headed over to Kingstowne Mall to find the big Safeway. This was the big Safeway which Stephen and I failed to find the other week - we found Giant instead. It turns out the Safeway is just behind Giant (we were rushing - and you would never know it was there!), and as well as Safeway there are some great homeware stores. There is TJMaxx, World Market and another one whose name escapes me now! Anyway after a reviving skinny latte we went for a wander. I was in Kerry heaven!! World Market had loads of decorative pieces from all over the world (obviously!) at really reasonable prices....AND they have a few food aisles too. I can now get Cadbury's chocolate, maltesers, Hob Nobs, McVities Digestives and salad cream....yippeee!!!! TJ Maxx was also great (just like the ones back home), they had Ralph Lauren bath sheets for a whole $8 each!! I will be dragging Stephen back here at the weekend for a good shop!

There is also a Crate & Barrell outlet just off King Street, so we had a look in there too. They had some really nice glasses and bowls and other kitcheny stuff. I think Stephen is going to be soooooo bored of shopping this weekend! Oh, and did I mention Whole Foods? Its a supermarket that I hadn't yet been in, and is really nice. Like an upmarket Waitrose. Every type of vegetable you could imagine (so this is where they hide them!) and quite a few I'd never seen before! For example did you know that carrots are not always orange? And Beetroot are not always purple? Well, there you go! You do now!!

After all that we were fairly exhausted, so we decided that a nice glass of wine might hit the spot so we popped into Chadwicks for a bit of salad and a pinot grigio. It was about 4:30 before I got home! Then after checking my e-mails and writing a post for the blog, Stephen came home and said he fancied eating out, so we wandered back along to King Street. It turns out Monday night is Steak Night at the restaurant we fancied. $10 for a HUGE steak, a mountain of fries and a small decorative salad...

Our walk into town!

Our street, looking from the top end
The park a couple of blocks from us. You can see the Potomac in the background.

A little bit further along the street. It's very pretty!

The enormous steak dinner!

Down on the Waterfront by the Torpedo Factory Arts Centre.
This is where we come to eat ice cream and drink coffee!