We are tired, we are fully satiated, and we have run out of things we want to see. Therefore, we are enjoying an early evening in our hotel. Dad's going to head toward the pool with his bathing suit soon, and I'm going to meander there with my book since my bathing suit seems to have been lost somewhere in all of my moving and reorganizing over the past year. I had it last summer--this summer it has become a mystery. Weird.
We left this morning at a reasonable hour for a day at Monticello, stopping for breakfast at a place called Aunt Sarah's Pancake House where the pancakes were great but the coffee not so much (but that's ok because we'd already indulged in starbucks on our way out of town....)
We made it to
Monticello and took in all there is to see there. Thomas Jefferson was an interesting fellow, and his house is very cool. Maybe someday I'll build myself an octagonal room with a bed stuck in the wall...The grounds were nice to roam as well, and since my mother behaved herself today I allowed a picture to be taken of us outside the house. We will keep it for posterity.
We saw our fill, and then drove back to Richmond. We did a bit of browsing in the few shops that were open in Carytown and then got some dinner at Nacho Mama's, where I had been hinting all weekend we should go.
(I really just wanted a margarita, and was not disappointed...)Tomorrow we might go to church at St. John's Episcopal, which has some historic meaning, and then we head for home.
I have had a great time away, but I am ready to get back. The details of life are calling me, and sometimes it's fun to deal with them when you've had time to forget about them, drenching yourself in irresponsibility (or, in the words of Paul Simon, dwelling in the reality that you've got "no deeds to do, no promises to keep"....)
I am indeed "dappled and drowsy and ready to sleep" at the moment, but tomorrow I'll be ready to go ;-)
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