A great weekend

Richard and I celebrated our 6th anniversary this weekend. Instead of going to a hotel or some other city we decided to take a little trip to the "Worth Hotel". In other words, we sent the kids to Grandma Worth's house and we stayed home. We enjoyed doing things like talking in the hall upstairs after the kids would have already been in bed, eating treats out in the open instead of covertly hiding half way in the closet, and going to bed whenever we wanted instead of waiting for one last feeding of the baby. Friday we dropped off the kids, went out to eat and watched a movie. Saturday, we slept in then drove out to a Flea Market in West Virginia.

We walked around the flea market for a while then went to the cute little historic town of Harper's Ferry.

We ate Crab Bisque for lunch outside at a cute little restaurant because the weather had just enough fall crispness in the air to enjoy that. Then we ate ice cream cones outside because the weather had just enough summer left in the air to enjoy that. After that we drove home. (It is worth mentioning that at no point during all this driving did we listen to Princess music or any other sort of kids music. Nor did we stop our conversation to answer questions about some random thing or to tell anyone to get their feet off the back of the seat.) During the drive home we discussed our plans/dreams to someday open a "Chocolate House" where people can come to do chocolate tastings - kind of like wine tastings. Or they can enjoy a cup of Hot Cocoa, or some of our hand-dipped chocolates, or chocolate-shaped-whateverholidayiscoming-thingys.

It was fun planning our future fortune-making business. (By the way - to all you Ashursts, this is how we plan on making our money while living in the Ashurst Family Compound and we think a ski-resort type town would be the perfect place for it so keep that in mind for our plans.) Anyway, that evening we got take-out at Outback and went home and watched 2 more movies while snacking on Cheese fries and candy.

We picked up the kids Sunday morning feeling refreshed and ready to face the world together. (Of course that was all promptly beaten out of us by taking 3 kids to church - but I'm sure some day we'll see the blessing of this sacrifice.)

The weekend was a success in every way. This week Richard is off to Boston for a week-long conference (which you can find out more about on his technical blog rdworth.org/blog ). So expect lots of blog posts from me as I try to feel connected to the outside world without any actual face-to-face grown-up conversation.

PS - check out Margaret's (mom-in-law) blog to see pics of the kids playing with their cousins this weekend. It looks like they had a lot of fun. Thanks Margaret and Grant!