the nite my sister carly came to town we wanted to sit somewhere outside and eat good food. andrew and i have about two steps out our front door that we call our front porch, and two steps in the back that we call our backyard. so we decided to try out the chesapeake room that opened on 8th street on the Hill. we knew they have a big open patio and a local farm menu.

the exciting parts we didnt know were that they play REALLY good music. i think 7 bob dylan songs came on while we sat there which is the key to my musical heart. also tom petty, fleet foxes, david bowie... it was a wonderful dinner soundtrack. also, i really admire a photograph in the womens bathroom. i sort of love visiting bathrooms at new restaurants. oh. and. the food was really good. overall it just made for a lovely mealtime atmosphere... especially for these autumn nites that are soon approaching.

(i promise there will be un-food-related posts again on this blog... and for those that dont live here, come visit! there's good food!)

there is a little place on 7th st in DC called Pitango. they serve gelato. we like to make our way over there after dinner on these summer evenings- try some fresh flavor(s), sit in Penn Quarter and enjoy. the dairy and fruit to make the gelato all comes from the farm in PA that andrew and i stayed at last spring.

when we went a few evenings ago, it was a particularly exciting trip for a few reasons:

1) these end of summer evenings are delightful! we cant keep inside. the memories of summer mixed with the anticipation for autumn lingers heavily in the air.

2) my sister Carly is visiting all the way from uganda. she was with us. 

3) when we walked into pitango, they had added some photos of the farm and cows and fruit and etc to the walls. andrew and i were a little excited to see our friends from the farm on a wall in dc. (we mightve shocked the employees a bit with our enthusiasm.)

this past trip we shared a chocolate orange sorbet and raspberry sorbet. and carly got cantaloupe and lemon sorbet. they were all wonderful.

(this is where we always sit to enjoy our gelato via the pano app.)

on our way back home from a wonderful week with family on paradise island in charleston, sc. what a lovely and refreshing time it was. filled with games, home cooking, river swimming, fishing, and all the stories, laughing, and talking that family is so good at.

now Andrew and I are making the journey home. listening to music, and npr, and talking, and sleeping (me). we live in such a world of diversity. 8hrs in a car can take you from one place to another place equally wonderful, yet so very different. I find it amazing.