Busy weekend

Our weekend has been something of a social whirl!

We hooked up with Andy and Marie (recent British imports to the office) and their neighbours in Chadwicks on Friday night. We were obviously the lightweights as they'd all been there since 5pm. We didn't roll up until nearly 8pm and wandered off to have some dinner before joining back up with the party (who were still going strong) around 11pm. I don't know how they do it!

Saturday morning didn't quite go according to plan! I had wanted to go down to Potomac Mills for some retail therapy but we got about 10 minutes down the I-95 when we saw the traffic warning that said that there was an accident in 3 junctions which blocked all lanes. Thankfully there was an exit we could get to as the traffic was rapidly backing up, and neither of us fancied spending 5 hours sitting in traffic. The upside was that we went to Kingstowne Mall and after wandering around World Market (and buying Maltesers) we went to Safeway and I (finally) bought my pumpkins. My front steps are now suitably decorated for Fall. We've failed again on the Halloween decorations front (for the second year) as we've left it far too late to actually buy anything! (One of the reasons I wanted to go to Potomac Mills was because they have a huge Halloween store...). As we live on "THE" Halloween Street in Old Town we'll be drummed out the neighbourhood soon!

We went to see Morag and Simon's new house in the afternoon. It is really gorgeous! It looks like a really great neighbourhood too. Apparently there are a lot of little girls round about for Alison to play with, so everyone seems very happy. Morag and I sipped (slugged) a couple of glasses of wine whilst Stephen and Simon amused Alison and admired the giant telly. When Lizzie woke up and got over her shy phase she was showing us her Halloween costume. She is going to be Pooh Bear. She was utterly adorable in her costume, complete with padded tummy, and really got into character when she had it on! She just "became" Pooh - it was hysterical!

We rushed from there to the weekend office (219 King St) to meet POQI for some dinner and listen to the band. The band were good, the drinks flowed, we didn't get home until sometime just after 1am!! Needless to say we were NOT up at 6:30 this morning!! I've spent most of the day cooking. The freezer was bare, so it was time to stock up. I've made Jamaican pork casserole and a goulash as well as completing stage 1 of the 3 stages of making the curry base sauce. It takes hours to make this (and my house stinks of onions and garlic!) but it is SO worth it! It really does taste like restaurant curry when you're done cooking!