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The other day Nina was angry with me for something...I can't remember what. She was really upset, though, because this is what she said:
I will not love you again...EVER!
I had to smile, I'm sure she felt it deeply. I just told her that I always love her, even when I'm angry and that nothing she does can change that. I hope she will always know it.
Our neighbors have their own ocean; here is a view of it from our balcony:
Can you tell who our neighbor is? Well, the next building over is also theirs and they have a really cool statue (It's supposed to be a fountain but it hasn't had water in it yet).
Here's the giveaway pic:
We decided to be tourists and took the Metro into DC (not very far). Once we got there we saw that there is a double decker bus tour like we took in Bristol and London (I want to do the one in San Diego some time too, who's in?). The one we did in Paris was terrible, but I am pretty sure it was a different company.
It was fun but HOT. We were tired and sweaty once it was done.
We had a small tragedy on the bus, though...a gust of wind took Nina's lovely red hat right off of her head. The first time, she caught it and I should have taken it or helped her hold it on because the second gust blew it right into the street. She was heartbroken and kept wanting to go get it out of the street. It was super sad, she had that hat at least two, if not three, years.
We used the day to shop...'til we dropped. By the end of the day we were exhausted (all except for Nina, again). We hit Costco, Target, and Whole foods. Fridge is now full, we have some necessities. If you are looking for a nice, inexpensive ipod dock, I am VERY happy with the one we got (though we didn't pay the amount it's listed for over at Amazon). I love that I can unplug it and listen anywhere in the house--for up to 8 hours! My only complaint is that it doesn't have radio. But really that's more a complaint about the ipod than the dock. The dock shouldn't have to have a radio because it should come standard with the ipod. So I'm getting my NPR dose via the web or in the morning on the clock radio that is all the audio equipment the apartment came with.
So, we made it. We actually got to Maryland on Saturday afternoon. By the time we got our luggage, rented a car, ate dinner (Thai takeout), and unpacked, we were all exhausted. Well, if you don't count Nina. She was ready to go and talked in bed for about an hour after we put her down at 9 pm Eastern time.
We had gotten up at 4 am California time, and gotten her up at about 5:30. She was an angel for the flight; I sat next to and entertained her for half of the flight and then we switched places and Larry sat next to her. I actually was able to sleep for a half hour or so, which was nice (and rare, I am not usually able to sleep on planes). She didn't fuss about keeping her seatbelt on for most of the ride (there was a lot of turbulence). We had given her the choice of whether to take her carseat on the plane or not; up until we were in line to board, she wanted to take it and then changed her mind at the last minute. The guy scanning boarding passes didn't seem to mind and just let us gate check it.
I had also been buying presents for the plane trip for a couple of weeks; I had a lot of fun picking out and wrapping them. I bought some crayons, a preschool workbook, a dvd, a drawing pad, a magnetic toy with fairies to dress up and put in different scenes.
So here's a slide show of our very nice apartment
It has more closet space than we can use, which is super cool. It means that we can store the stroller open and not have to collapse it and open it every time we go out. My one complaint is that the desk was in a complete other room than the ethernet connection. That's ok, I just moved the desk and it's fine. I knew the knives would be crappy, and they were, but it's ok, I used the opportunity to buy a santoku knife (I had been coveting one, hee hee). And the one I found just happened to come in a package with a paring knife. Hmm, I had been wanting another paring knife...
