Teaholic not quite anonymous

Well, Matt and I had a great time in Annapolis this weekend. The drive up was pretty pleasant. We stopped for breakfast (my favorite crab cake benedict) and a quick Walmart stop before heading onto the hotel. We stayed at the Double Tree which tend to be hit or miss. This one was decent, although not as nice as some I've stayed at. We were able to check in early (although was first checked into a room that was stripped but not clean, so we needed to go get a different room).

Friday was pretty uneventful. We went over to the not-so-small strip mall near the hotel to have icecream at Maggie Moos, but detoured to the liquor store (which has quite a selection compared to Virginia's state run ABC stores), then a vitamin store to get liquid vitamins for Maddy and then to Five Below. I bought some cute stuff there including a board game, a purse and fuzzy pillow for Maddy, and two hurricane glasses for Matt and I. Then off to the ice cream store. For dinner we ordered in pizza and breadsticks.

We noticed workmen working on the sprinkler system on our floor while we checked in and Matt said, "Wouldn't it suck to have a fire now?!", joking of course. Well, at 6 pm the fire alarm for the building went off. So, since we weren't unpacked yet, I grabbed the suitcase and we headed out the stairs. Turns out that the kitchen burned something and there really WAS smoke in the lobby. Fortunately, the sprinkler system seemed to be fixed by that point.

Friday night we decided to go out for dessert, but the WATER didn't agree with me so I actually wound up getting sick. Don't ask me how water-WATER of all things can get me ill, but it did. YUCK. I didn't know at that time it was the water, I thought I had ate too much that evening, but I did find that out the next night. That put a damper on the evening.

Saturday morning we went to Panara for breakfast and then straight out to Historical/downtown Annapolis to do some shopping/touristy-sight seeing. We stopped at Lilac Bijoux and I was so impressed with their jewelry, selection, customer service (I was served by Beth, the owner) and also price! One of the items is at the right. If you click on it, you'll see the others I purchased as well. Beth recommended some more shops around downtown and a place for lunch. So we enjoyed our leisurely stroll around town and did a few more purchases. We ate lunch at Federal House which was WONDERFUL. However, there was this one little old lady who kept calling the server so RUDELY every three minutes, I kid you not. What on earth do you need every three minutes? Seriously! I guess the older people get the more 'entitled' they feel they are of people's attention and time. But I had a salad for lunch and it was quite pleasant.

After lunch we decided to drive around town a bit and reconnoiter our highly recommended dinner spot. Well, we went back to the hotel, got ready and went. The place couldn't decide if they were upscale or casual. I don't mind either and wasn't really hoping for either. But don't try to charge me $30 a plate when I have a two year old next to me and people in shorts being quite loud all around me. But it had the snobbiest wait staff on the face of the planet. So, after being seated and receiving water (just tap, please, thanks) we left! It wasn't a place I wanted to spend +$100 on. We wound up going back to the hotel because the restaurant on sight actually intrigued me every time I walked by and it smelled GREAT. We went and it wasn't at all crowded and the food (crab/mango appetizer, coconut shrimp appetizer, steak with a potato side and drink) was great. After dinner we headed back to the room to change and went back down for dessert later.

Again with the water thing! I had a full glass of water before dessert and I was again nauseous. I did make it through this time, but again, I wound up wanting to lay around all evening just because I felt so horrible.

The next morning we actually slept in until 9:30 and went to brunch at a great local place and it was just fabulous. I was itching to see Maddy, so we headed home not long after.

Grandma and Grandpa had a great time with Maddy this weekend, but they did WAY too much. Not only did they watch Maddy, Matt's mom also washed all the sheets (since they slept in our bed and my parents were coming for the guest room bed), wiped down the bathrooms, cleaned up the house and shopped/prepped for dinner for the six of us!!! We had the best steaks, potatoes and mushrooms. All delicious. We had so much left over we had steak and eggs for dinner tonight.

My parents got here almost the same time we did. Maddy warmed up to them pretty quickly which I was hoping for but wasn't really sure what would happen. We all hung out, had a delicious dinner and Matt's parents went home. Crazy, but I was actually pretty tired from the weekend so we went to bed kind of early.

Not a whole lot happened here today. Maddy, grandma and grandpa and I went to the park, played a lot and played on the deck by the pool. During her nap I ran up to JC Penny to pick up her pictures. Here's on to the left. If you click on it, it will take you to the other three.

But it's late and I need to get to sleep! Have a great night!

Tea of the day: Coffee, since that's what everyone else was having.
WO: Sorry to say, I never did get around to it today.