After travelling for fourteen hours yesterday we made it back to DC after 10:00 PM and back to the apartment before midnight. We checked four bags and carried four. We don't have this much stuff with us when we travel in Europe! I have no idea what all we are dragging back to the 'nest'. And that's without thinking about the 41 boxes of STUFF that we shipped that will be arriving next week.
I honored my second day of retirement by sleeping until 10:00 AM and essentially doing nothing substantive all day. K and I had a celebratory lunch at the Westend Bistro at 22nd and M St NW, another of those restaurants noted mostly because the chef is seen on TV. This is Restaurant Week in DC when eating establishments offer a special rate on lunch and dinner meals to lure in those who may have avoided them because of the cost. Four star chef Eric Ripert has great appetizers and desserts going for him. Main course? Not so much.
After lunch it was grocery shopping at Harris Teeter (K is boycotting Whole Foods because of their CEO's stance on health care). Tonight is all about unpacking and trying to find some place to put everything. This will be tough. But then, it will be a LOT easier than working on the 8.3b Data Conversion Specifications deliverable. Now if I could just stop thinking about that stuff my retirement could really commence.
Here in DC all flags are at half mast in honor of Ted Kennedy's passing. It really is the end of an age. I was a senior in High School when his brother Jack was elected President and in graduate school when Bobby Kennedy was assassinated.
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