More Bloggy Meetings With Food

hi. I’m back. You thought I’d jumped ship, huh? No? Well, I was starting to think so.

Our trip to DC was great, but I missed you. It was strange not being here much last week, and each time I felt a moment to come here, it disappeared. Strange. And there came a time when it became a little overwhelming to read some of my favorite blogs due to being out of the loop for so many days, and this weekend I did some procrastinating on that too. But I’m back now and getting back in the groove. Slowly.

I had every intention of uploading photos and blogging at least once more from the road, but it just didn’t happen. You know how that is. And now I’m a little spacey and having some trouble formulating my thoughts into words. But photos will be processed and will appear on flickr, and maybe here, in the coming days. And I do have a few more thoughts on the rest of the trip that I’d like to share with you.

Last week I got the opportunity to make a drive to Baltimore to visit Emily. It was my second bloggy meetup in the space of a week, and I feel so lucky for both of them, I’ll tell you what. We had a very leisurely (and relaxing) 3 hour lunch cracking crab at a little place on the water, taking pictures and talking, and laughing, and then we split and while she went to fetch her little ones, The Husband, my friend Mel and I grabbed some cupcakes at Cake Love, and checked out the USS Constellation, and then we reconvened at Emily’s place for a relaxed dinner. It was lovely. Her kids are just darling, B showed us some macrame he learned at camp and they both did some camp songs for us. So seriously cute. Emily’s mom stopped by for a little bit, too. And Emily showed me some of her paintings, which was fantastic, because there are just some things about paintings that don’t translate in a digital image.

I absolutely loved seeing where she lives and hanging out with her family, I feel like the snippets of her life in photographs that I have seen all make sense now. It’s a bit of a feeling of completeness between us, and I love it. Thank you for bringing us in, Em. And thanks for the almost completely local meal, it was delicious, and the crazy fun experience of cracking crab! And all of the laughs. Of course.