Introducing our new patio...

After ground-level deck removed:

Getting ready to lay the paver stones:
The finished product!

Another view:

Weekend Getaway

Hello!

After spending the past few weekends waiting and paying for our new patio to be put down and painting the dining room (the first room of our house to see another color beside stark white), it was time to take a weekend just for ourselves. October is truly the best month of the year, so anytime we can spend enjoying it outdoors is a great day in my book.

I decided to take Friday off so Sean and I headed down to Williamsburg, VA around 1:00pm. Traffic was quite heavy so it took us over 3 hours to get there. We stayed at a very basic Country Inn Suites. After a short nap we went to a nice dinner. I had researched a few places to eat and just wrote down the addresses. It was so nice to just type the address into our navigation system and voila, we were there without any fuss.

Saturday we spent the day at Williamsburg touring around. I do not know if I had every walked through colonial Williamsburg in the past or not, but it was a neat (and possibly new) experience. The weather was absolutely perfect. About 70 or so degrees, just right for jeans, a t-shirt and removing the sweatshirt every hour and then putting it back on. There was not a cloud in the sky. It was a little early for changing foliage but we could tell it won't be long.

Sunday we woke up later than planned and opted to avoid the complimentary breakfast at the hotel. It was a complete mad house the day before... teenagers arrived in their pjs without shoes, long lines, watered down juice, frozen cream cheese, and you had to microwave the bacon, sausage and eggs if you wanted it. But, the lesson here is for $89/night, you get what you pay for. I learn this lesson every time I cheap-out, but always forget it in time for the next trip. The hotel however was fairly clean (we assume the big stain on the carpet was coffee) and the bed was comfortable. And the train across the street never woke us up as long as we had the fan running.

We spent a few hours on Sunday touring Yorktown Battle field. This was pretty cool, which means a lot coming from someone who got a C in history most years. The driving tour was awesome. It was a one way road, just wide enough for a car and maybe a horse. There were beautiful tall trees just along the edge of the road and we were lucky to pass several beautiful horses and dogs. One guy was on a horse, holding a leash with his dog at the end. Would he be horsing his dog? (you know, versus walking his dog?)

After a quick stop at the Williamsburg Pottery Factory (which was the largest flea market I've ever seen), we headed home to take care of our very angry cats. They hate to be left alone!

Here we are posing for a quick shot by a cannon.

Don't try this at home.