Jam Packed Weekend

 Kicked off the weekend with a great Friday with Jessie and Boston.  They're our friends we were with in Florida for the Triathlon.  We had a terrific lunch at Murphy's, wandered up and down King Street in Old Town Alexandria, cuddled baby Boston and wrapped up our afternoon at Starbucks.

 Friday night Tom and I went to The Kennedy Center to have dinner and see SHEAR MADNESS.  Celebrating our 33rd wedding anniversary!  I had never been to TKC before so it was great.  Gorgeous view from the building.

 Saturday we got up bright and early to hop on the Metro and head to Columbia Heights.  We were volunteering with Convoy of Hope to serve the neighborhood.  Tom and I were on the grocery team so we unloaded the pre-bagged groceries from the truck and set them up on a long table.

Tom and Richard

 Met lots of new people who were also there volunteering.

Helene' our team leader

There was entertainment

There were a lot of older women from the area who are apparently mostly shut-ins so it was great to have them out.

Face painting and craft for the kids

More entertainment

Served food to everyone and then gave them several bags of groceries on their way out.

 We left Columbia Heights and headed to the Armory for some Roller Derby.  We've always wanted to check it out and somehow felt compelled to add it to this already busy day.

Our friend Jan met us there

 Sunday after church we did some more furniture shopping and stumbled upon a wonderful French bakery.  Had a yummy brunch there.  Both Saturday and Sunday we were gone for about 12 solid hours. By Sunday night we were beat!