A Tale of Two Birds

The past few days have been really wonderful.  Me and Nate rented a cottage in Luray, VA for two nights.   Some peaceful landscape and fresh air is exactly what we needed.  We didn't have any definitive plans except to hike Old Rag Mtn.  We dragged ourselves out of bed at 5:30 AM on Wednesday morning, guzzled some coffee and headed out.  It was misty as anything that morning and didn't seem to settle but rather got increasingly dreary as the day went on.  It made for a beautiful hike.  We hiked the 8 mile trail and I'm feeling the aches in my muscles two days later.  They're good aches.  Feated aches.

We left Thursday at around 11:00 AM and headed to North Mountain Vineyard about an hour North of where we were.  We wanted to pick up a couple bottles of wine and really just check the place out.  They're website was quaint including pictures of adorable dogs in scarfs.  Could we pass that up? Nay.  We ended up in Front Royal, VA and on a SERIOUS whim decided to head to Woodbridge, VA to ....dun dun dun...IKEA.  Ikea gets me pretty excited.  I'm sorry but you tell me where you can go spend $65.00 and drive home with a car FULL of useful stuff.  AND 75cent coffee. TELL ME. Can't, can ya?

We got home at 10:00 PM and met some friends for drinks downtown.  I had 3 whisky sours too many and surprisingly didn't feel like crap this morning. Nate is another story. To reward myself for not being hungover I bought a little rose bush and a shamrock plant today.  Pictures to come.