Raleigh Suppa Club - Oct 2015

The weekend after a short trip to New Jersey, we hopped on a flight to Raleigh - being on the East coast again makes it really easy to see our friends here!  Shawna had been in Hartford so she got a connection through BWI and Keith met her for the second leg of that journey.  John picked us up at the airport and we just went back to his place for a beer since it was late.

On Saturday, Keith needed to visit a potential acquisition for his company.  He gave Jo a ride to work and then spent the morning looking at apartments while Shawna caught up on some work at the house.  We then met back at the house and walked to First Watch on Glenwood for lunch.  The evening was an Olive Garden themed Suppa Club - this one with low attendance since quite a few people were out of town.  We did get to see Phil, Kim, Brandon, Teresa, and John/Jo and had a really fun night catching up.

One Sunday, we went for a couple of walks - first around the neighborhood and then around Lake Lynn before heading to see The Martian.  We then hopped on the short flight back to Baltimore.

New Jersey - October 2015

While we were in transition between the Denver and Baltimore houses, we were living on the ground floor of the Baltimore house on a four-inch foam mattress.  We thought it would be more fun to get away for weekends so we headed up to New Jersey to see Kim and Tom and the kids.

We drove out on the Saturday morning in the Audi (sadly too cold for convertible) and made it to their place in about 2:45 - a pretty easy trip with little traffic.  When we arrived at the house, only Kaley and Kim were home - Tom was wrapping up a round of golf.  We chatted with Kaley for 15 mins while Kim was getting ready - then headed out to lunch at Food in Summit with Kim.  We then learned what suburban parenthood was all about by shuttling kids back and forth to their sports events - we were exhausted and suggested that Kim might have vodka in her Starbucks tea that is always at her side!  After that exhausting afternoon, we unwound with some beers on the patio before Danelle showed up.  We then all got ready for dinner and went to Serenade for a delicious meal.  

We all went to bed after dinner, with Danelle staying the night as well.  Breakfast was Starbucks and bagels before we drove Danelle to the station - then we drove back to Baltimore.