After both of us working over night last Thursday and into Friday, Ari and I went straight to the airport to fly out east to visit my sorority sisters Lynne and Jenn. Despite our lack of sleep, we were anxious to go because Lynne, her husband Matt, and their son Joseph are finally living back in the states. None of them have met Ari since they couldn't come back for our wedding and I hadn't met Joseph. On the plane, Ari slept, but I just couldn't get comfortable. We then hopped a train to meet Lynne and Jenn in Bethesda. After socializing for a bit, I took a nap when Joseph laid down. When I woke up 3 hours later, I felt much more like myself! We were all starving so we headed to downtown Bethesda for dinner. We ate delicious Mexican food and had to hide the margaritas since they looked so good to Joe. Afterward we crossed the street for some ice cream... perfect on such a hot day. Lynne and Matt then took Joe home for bed while Jenn, Ari, and I explored the downtown area. We had some fun shopping and then went back to Lynne's to sleep.
They let Ari and I sleep in and we finally woke up at 11am!! Matt is very busy with his dental fellowship so he took Joe to Annapolis to be watched by Lynne's mom and he could study. Jenn, Lynne, Ari, and I then headed into Baltimore. We wanted to go to the National Aquarium but the next available tickets were for 5pm so we headed to Obrycki's for a late lunch first. The girls all got cream of crab and asparagus soup which was amazing and I had a crab cake melt which was delicious! Ari was a good sport and found a veggie wrap on the menu. We then walked through a very shady neighborhood and over to Fell's point for some more browsing in some very fun shops. Finally, it was time to get out of the heat and hit the aquarium. The dolphin show was fun but I think my favorite part was the frogs... I love that blue poison dart frog! He is so cute!! The sharks were really creepy. Hours later when we emerged from the aquarium, Jenn and Lynne took us to Vicaro's in little Italy for gelato... and that is an understatement. They have these giant gelato sundaes that are enormous. Since we had only really eaten lunch, we all got our own and we looked like such piggies!! Hyped up by all the sugar and caffeine from my coffee I started telling my stories faster and faster... it was a riot! We then took a quick peek at Jenn's apartment and headed back to Bethesda.
Sunday Matt went and got lox and bagels for breakfast...mmm... and we sat around in our PJ's playing with Joseph. If you ask him to show you his eyes, he squints them and it is so funny! Soon it was time to go and Jenn drove us down to the airport. I got back in plenty of time for my over night shift.
