As I mentioned in the last post, JJ and I had a road trip over the weekend to Northern Virginia to my parents' house. We left on Saturday morning a little after 8:00 and headed out for our 10 hour trip. We drove because I had some stuff that I had left in storage at their house when I moved down from NYC. JJ has the stamina of steel as he worked an overnight shift and drove the entire way without having to stop for a nap! He so graciously took over the drive knowing how I don't like highway driving. I return the favor by staying up the entire time to keep him company, a very small price to pay I must say! :-) I packed us lunch so that we wouldn't have to stop since there are few choices along the roads that would accommodate our vegan requirements. I made some veggie and hummus wraps and brought some Garden of Eatin' chips and apples to snack on as well.
STAMINA OF STEEL IN ACTION!
IT'S A WRAP!
I did nod off a few times UNITENTIONALLY on the way up there in the time span of about an hour or so, but I pulled it together and fought my way through it. JJ didn't even call me out on this until we got back from the entire trip jokingly. He's such a good sport. Like I said though, I made it through awake the rest of the time. We ended up taking a more scenic route on the way up there (thanks to Mapquest) that took us through the Shenendoah Valley and even though it was raining it was so beautiful! Check it out!
The weather up in VA wasn't the best. It was chilly and rainy, but as always it was great to see the fam! We spent some time with my sister, brother-in-law and my nephews on Sunday evening over dinner. JJ and I took the easy route this weekend and just got take out the entire time. Saturday night we got Mexican from Baja Fresh and on Sunday we got some Veggie Burgers, rice and broccoli from Uno's. There was no need for a picture of either of these meals. The veggie burger was quite good though! We caught a rented flick with my parents on Sunday night and then on Monday it was on the road again!
On the way back we decided to take our time with the drive since neither of us had to work on Tuesday morning. We ended up stopping at Subway along the way for veggie sandwiches for lunch. We also stopped in Gaffney, South Carolina at an outlet mall and loaded up on some great deals!! We decided on the way back, that we would make a trip up to South Carolina again on the weekend to get out of the city and spend more time at the outlets and see what else is going on since we were only 3 hours away from Atlanta at that point. I'm just glad that summer is approaching and can't wait for our weekend excursions to pick up!
It looks as though the warm weather may finally be here to stay and I LOVE it! We went out and played another round of tennis yesterday in the beautiful sunshine. What really topped off the trip was that JJ surpised me yesterday evening with a muffin baking tin for the baked goods I'm going to start making from Sur la table and the wrappers to put inside for baking. It was SO sweet and SO unexpected!!
Well, that about sums up the weekend. I know there aren't a lot of culinary courses to gawk at this week, but we'll be back to our regularly scheduled program soon enough!
I'll leave you with a one more shot that I took on the way back down to the A-T-L; the sunset peaking through the trees! GORGEOUS!
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