Three weeks ago today was the first day of our summer break. Cas had to go in for one more half-day after I was done, so he says it’s now been three weeks and three hours since school ended. That makes today the one-week-out mark for this summer’s adventure. We leave in a week. Hooray!
This time, we’re off to see our Nation’s Capital. Or is it Capitol. Actually, (Thank you, Google) I believe it’s both- we will go to the Capitol building in the Capital city of Washington, D.C.
Nevertheless, it may be of note to share what we’ve been up to while kicking around in Dallas for these three weeks. Just because we haven’t yet traveled out of the immediate area, that doesn’t necessarily mean we’ve just been staring at our four walls, playing Mario Party and waiting to head off the the airport. In the past three weeks, we have:
- Driven GoKarts
- Been to two movies
- Seen a minor league baseball game
- Taken a sunset cruise on Lake Ray Hubbard
- Taught our niece how to make gnocchi noodles
- Booked an impromptu room in Grapevine and enjoyed the wineries
- Been to a distillery and a brewery
- Been out on three double dates with three different couples
- Bowled with and without bumper lanes
- Celebrated my older brother’s birthday with a sufficiently fancy dinner
- Been out for a fancy dinner of our own with smoked old fashioneds and elk steak
- Played a round of indoor miniature golf
- Attended a comedic play called How the Other Half Loves
- Played a game of pub trivia
- Seen a Shakespeare in the Park production of Much Ado about Nothing
If that list is three weeks in Dallas, I am very excited to see what happens when our flight lands in DC. Oh, and we have an idea about a short trip to Chicago working, as well as the possibility of a quick jog down to in New Braunfels so we can float around on a pair of inner tubes. This summer, we’re not doing a grand European tour, so we can really make some cool stuff happen stateside. Turns out, this is the summer that the rest of the US is actually booking European and other international travel, though, so everything related to visiting someplace foreign is much pricier. I guess we accidentally picked the exact right moment to skip international travel.
We’re seizing the days- all of them- until they make us go back to work. Stay tuned- we’ll share the Capitol in the Capital amongst other sites and scenes. In the meantime, here we are, at the Pocket Sandwich Theatre:
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