St. Mary's City, and a little more

Here is Historic St. Mary's City, there's Tia. This is the original Capitol of Maryland and it was this way for about 80 years or so. Here I am making sure a witch gets her comeuppance. Actually, I don't know if they had witch trials in MD, but it's a good action shot.

Here's Tia in front of one of the historic houses. Inside you will find all sorts of antiques, replicas, and souveniers. Here also we learned that back then, the people didn't bathe because it was considered unsanitary. So, they masked their yuchh with perfumes and herbs and stuff.

Also, by show of hands, who here knows that aluminum foil can catch on fire? Well, here we are, broiling our delicious Omaha Steaks that we so graciously received from one of our dear friends (Thank you so very much!) and all of the sudden there's smoke coming out of the stove top. Hm. (I thought to myself) That can't be good. I open the oven door -TIA TIA FIRE FIRE FIRE!!! And now begins the race to get the dish out of the oven put it on top of the stove top get a towel beatthefiredownbeatitdownhurryhurry, aaahhhh, the fire alarm! Run to the smoke censor and use the towel to blow air on it and finally, crisis averted. Those steaks were DELICIOUS! and obviously impervious to disaster.

Williamsburg, Virginia

This past weekend we went to Williamsburg, Virginia. It was suppose to be a rainy weekend, but we lucked out with good weather. We walked about Colonial Williamsburg and saw all the old buildings and fashion of life "way back when". Then, we went shopping. It was fun being with my family! Thank God they aren't too far away; otherwise, I'd be SO homesick.

The Smithsonian

Smithsonian Air and Space Museum... Nice! This is what we did in DC on our first visit. Awesome place! We got a free tour and have learned, and by now forgotten, a whole lot about air... and space... not so much about museums... there's an idea, a museum about museums. How very Jerry Seinfeld. Anyway, the tour was free, but the guide was aging and could barely talk above the background noise, so we were often forced to get uncomfortably close to him to find out all the good info. So, what DID we remember? That's right, it's all about poop. Apparently they put it all in receptacles and brought it back to earth. I thought they could probably leave it up there, but can you imagine being another space shuttle looking for the space station and you get human poop on the windshield? They don't have windshield washer fluid, you know. And can you imagine all that astronaut training and then be labeled "first astronaut to wipe human poop from the space shuttle windshield"; I guess there's a first for everything. I think it may be worse for the second guy that has to clean poop. At least the first guy is in the history books, the second guy...? all the shame, none of the glory.

This here's Neil Armstrong and... the other guy, apparently his name is John Glenn. As you can see, they wanted to emphasize that he was NOT the first one on the moon by making him stand on the ladder. I mean, he was on the moon like one minute later than Neil and no one remembers who he is. Poor Jeff Green.

So, anyway, we had a wonderful day. If you go to DC, go to the Air and Space Museum and take the free tour. If you can tell your guide's wearing Aqua Velva, you're close enough to learn.

Halloween

In effort to find a Halloween Costume for the Halloween Party we were invited to, we went to every department store in the area. After 5 stores, we were at a loss for costumes that we needed that night. Putting our heads together our conversation went like this:

Tia: What do we have at home that we can use?
Robert: I don't know.
Tia: What can we do with aluminum foil?
Robert: We can be leftovers.
Tia: Ha Ha Hee Hee! I love it! We can wrap ourselves in aluminum foil.

So off we went back to Target to get more aluminum foil and double stick tape. Robert was the experiment. After wrapping, taping, and seeing his ridiculous yet hysterical costume, I said, "You know I'm not doing all that right?!" I got off the hook and my husband won the "Halloween Good Sport Award!"