One of the neatest things about living inside of the Capital Beltway is that it doesn't feel so big city. Part of that is being near lots of un-developed farming land belonging to the USDA, but the other part for us is being right across the street from a National Park, complete with camping, picnicking, and hiking. Tom pooh-poohs the idea of camping there, mostly because of the fact that there are constantly airplanes and helicopters overhead. But it sure is great for an afternoon of hiking in the forest, or paying $13 for a campsite for date night to have a campfire picnic dinner (I made lemon-butter salmon steaks, corn-on-the-cob, and vegetable ribbons in olive oil and sea salt, tinfoil dinners, soooo yummy and non-family camping feeling.)
A strange thing about Sundays is that by about 4 or 5 in the afternoon we are all feeling the same urge to go outside for fresh air and sunshine. So these pictures are from a Sunday a few weeks ago when we loaded the kids in the car with the biking trailer and some snacks and water bottles and drove .2 miles to go hiking :)
6 comments:
What an adorable family! How fun to live so close to a national park. Thanks for sharing the beautiful pictures! Oh and forward on your tinfoil recipe. That sounds delicious!
Sounds heavenly. We should all go together sometime. And you can make those tin foils dinners for us too!
Hey!! When did yo come to Poland! That looks a lot like the forest we spend time in every week (Greg does every day). You are SOOOO gourmet about your foil dinner.
We love it there!! I remember once being awakened by a drunk who had stumbled into our campsite :)
I miss DC!!!! (and all of the Drapers too of course!)
It is nice to have your own "sacred grove" nearby.
Love, Dadt
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