Pat's 70th birthday was yesterday. We celebrated it a little early with a surprise trip to DC. Pat was already out there visiting her daughter Amy who lives in Virginia but very close to DC.
I left on Friday afternoon, the 19th, picked up Karen in Russellville, and we went on to Huntsville to pick up Carolyn. We then drove to Nashville, spent the night, and got an early flight out of Nashville the next morning.
We had a very smooth flight, arrived on time and all luggage arrived! Yay!!
We sent Amy a text when we were ready to be picked up. She told Pat they were going to a soccer game for Ethan. She's a very good liar because she told Pat they missed their turn and she was going to have to swing through the airport to turn around. Pat, of course, was very unsuspecting! I was standing just off the curb at the airport in the pick-up lane. From a distance Pat noticed my gold sweater. I had worn it when I was at her house in September for my class reunion. She liked it so much she went out and bought one just like it, as sisters often do! She mentioned to Amy that "that lady" has a sweater like Judy's. Then she said to Amy, "She kind of looks like Judy." As they got closer she realized it was me!! Look at her face when she realized it!
She was especially surprised to see Carolyn since it's so hard for Carolyn to get away. We could see the relief on Amy's face that she pulled off the surprise!
Here we are...ready to get this party started!
I hope this video works because it perfectly captures Pat's face and the surprise!
We drove to the country club in Amy's neighborhood for lunch.
Lunch was delicious and the country club is beautiful. Unfortunately there was a fire a few days after we had lunch there that did a lot of damage.
Amy lives in a beautiful gated neighborhood. They had a couple of model homes open for touring so we stopped to check them out.
This one is over 9,000 square feet.
We tried to talk Amy into buying this one. There's a bedroom, full bath, and small living room off to the left which would be perfect for Pat and Dave when they visit!
Posting just a few pictures of this magnificent house!
Dream kitchen!
Even the dog has a bedroom!
There were five bedrooms but the master suite is huge with a beautiful living area.
There were even Halloween treats for us to sample!
We toured another home but it paled in comparison to this one!
We then went to Amy's house...which is equally beautiful!
After a short visit, giving Pat time to pack her bag, we headed back to the airport to pick up Lisa and then head to D.C.
We checked into the Washington Court Hotel, just a few blocks from the Capitol. It is a beautiful hotel and very convenient. We dumped our stuff and headed to Matchbox for dinner. Karen had reservations for us at most dinner restaurants which was so convenient.
Toasting our sister! Happy birthday, Pat!
Karen and Amy planned our trip perfectly! Karen even had an itinerary for each day. This helped so much as our time in D.C. was short and no time was wasted.
Lots of fun planned for us!
Halloween was last night. I made the traditional dinner of lasagna though this year only Ben and Cameron had dinner with us. The other kids were busy and too old for trick-or-treating. Sad!
Cameron wasn't going to trick-or-treat but I think he just couldn't give up getting all the free candy so he put on his baseball uniform and called it a costume!
One of my neighbors asked if Cameron wanted to trick or treat with her kids along with others. They had a trailer with hay bales on it, pulled with a 4-wheeler. Cameron was all about that!
He had a ball!
I guess a baseball uniform was the costume of the night! The other two, Luke and Tyler, live on our street and are Cameron's age. He plays with them when he comes over.
He got lots of loot!
I always make a treat bag for the kids. I asked them if they thought they were too old for treat bags but they said they would NEVER get too old for candy!
We didn't even carve pumpkins this year...no interest by the kids. I guess that's another thing of the past.
Emma Taylor did dress up to hand out candy at her house.
Crazy costume!
This precious Cabbage Patch Kid was my first trick-or-treater! Her grandmother lives down the street and strolled her to our house so we could see how cute she was!
She was just adorable! I wanted to play with her!
Cameron is with us for a couple of days while Ben is in Memphis for training. He started a new job on Monday as a Sysco salesman and will be doing some training for a few weeks.
This post is sort of all over the place but there's much I need to catch up on before I head on another trip!
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