Leaving DC

Tomorrow we, Angie and me, are leaving DC for home. It will have been a week since I arrived in DC and it been a good week. I've spent the week doing almost nothing except visiting with family and friends. I tried to sit down an write a recap of my journey eastward but just couldn't get very far before I was off doing something else.

The weather here has be absolutely exceptional, moderate humidity and  the temperature has been in the high 80's, low 90's. Very pleasant walking around weather for DC.
It was great to have some time with Jennifer(daughter) and her significant other Per. They came in to have dinner with me the first night (last Tuesday) which I really enjoyed and appreciated,. not having anyone to really talk to for more than a week.
Angie, came in on Wednesday night. We spent some time catching up and relaxing. I found it hard adjusting at first, wanting to go to bed when the sunset and get up with the sunrise, typical road behavior.
Some how Angie wasn't into it.

On Friday night Jennifer and Per took us to the Nationals  Park to watch the Nationals beat the Phillies.
Its a great stadium and we had great seats thanks to Per.

I got the windshield fixed on Thursday, now I can once again see the world without a crack the shape of a long horn steers horns.

Chris (son) and his family arrived on Saturday morning. Oh what a joy seeing them; especially the baby, Annabel.
The baby turned 1 on July 31 and she is just a jewel, but then I'm only slightly prejudice.

We, as a family, along with our good friend Vivian Lock, went to dinner at a local French restaurant which was very enjoyable; great food great family, just lovely. It was nice to have the whole family together again, its been awhile.

Unfortunately, Annabel, the poor dear, was under the influence of a viral infection acquired at her day care, and as the evening progressed became feverish and couldn't sleep. So, in the early morning we go the tour of upper northwest DC looking for the DC Children's Hospital. What an adventure.

The doctor said it just the virus and to give her infant Motrin and Tylenol. This proved easier said than done. It seem that Motrin has had this massive recall on the infant formula and even the generic was hard to come by. I shopped at least three CVS drugstores with no luck. Her parents eventually found some up by DuPont Circle.
This weekend was in part suppose to give Chris and Kathleen a chance to spend some quality time together while the grandparents enjoyed the baby. They had arranged to spend a night in a local hotel while we watched the baby. I was with a great deal of trepidation that we had to call them, at 2:00 am concerned with the persistent temperature Annabel seem to be running. Not the time off they had hoped. I feel a bit inadequate, not being able to handle this for them. I was one of those up and down nights. We did get some good grandparent time with her though and that was what was really nice. Chris, Kathleen and Annabel left for home this afternoon. I hope she gets better soon.
So now we're, actually Angie, is cleaning up the condo and getting ready to start off tomorrow.

We're heading off to Lexington tomorrow.

Oh! If I hadn't mentioned it Angie is not a camper. Her idea of camping is the Best Western motel chain, sorry Best Western. So probably  no more sunrise/sunsets over the camp site. As  you can see by the map we're heading west then turning north. We're visiting my aunt  in Iowa and going to visit Mount Rushmore and Yellowstone before getting home. Of course there will be a lot of highway in between; since we have only 7 days to get across the US I don't see to many side roads. Bummer.
I'll be back in touch.