It has been a very relaxing day today, up here in western MD.
We decided last week, that will all the home improvements we have been doing lately, the only way to have a relaxing weekend would be to leave town altogether. So we packed everybody up, filled up Bosco's food and water(cats are so easy! Why on earth do I want a dog?), cleaned his box and headed upstate. The Fall weather is definitely here. The leaves are just beginning to turn and it is just gorgeous !
We came up for the Autumn Glory Festival, which is held out in Oakland, MD. Oakland is over in the neck of MD kind of sandwiched in between Pennsylvania and West Va. It is really a pretty upscale area. The is a ski resort and a huge lake that draws all the rich folk from B'more and DC up here on the weekends. The hills are so pretty all decked out in red, yellow and gold.
The Festival is quite an event. It involves pretty much the whole town. There is a parade, an Autumn Glory Queen, a concert and a Banjo competition. They also have things going on at all the schools. Arts and Crafts vendors. Antiques and a Quilt show as well.
The traffic was horrendous, because we got there just before the parade started. There are people in every front yard hawking parking spots for 5 or 10 $. Hilarious. People were very nice though.
We got lunch for the boys and then went out to watch a bit of the parade. Brendan and Paul were so amazing today! They had a LONG ride in the car to get there. Had to put up with waiting for lunch and standing around waiting for the parade to start.
I was so proud of them.
Then we went to the Arts and craft areas and shopped for awhile. Paul got some finger puppets and Brendan got a wooden Cobra. John had stayed with Tim to work on Andrew's truck. He doesn't do very well on long car rides.
We did some more exploring and then headed home. Tim and Andrew were elbow deep in truck parts and grease, so we had to wait quite a while until they were ready to go to the pizza place. We had pizza for dinner and then I treated the boys to some games in the arcade, which was a first! They had earned it!
We will head home tomorrow after Mass and get back to all the details of life.
