The rest of our trip was as hectic as I thought it would be. All Jbird wanted when we arrived around 9am was Cracker Barrel for breakfast. By the time I decided I wouldn't mind it either, we seemed to have passed the last one. We had settled on Waffle House, even pulling into the driveway for it, when I realised that that driveway was shared with a Cracker Barrel. He was a happy man. I was happy when we found a $4 skirt for me to wear at the wedding at the local outlet mall. We spread the happiness a little further by also buying some jeans and a new top.
We met Jeff (the groom) just as he was starting a tour of the Battle at Antietem. Jeff is a guide tour for a living so it was neat to see him at work. It was the bloodiest battle on American soil. 23,000 men died and neither side won the battle. I believe they took some photos there with the wedding party.
Saturday morning, we made a mad dash to DC to visit Alana. She fed us and we talked our heads off. Alana was one of my bridesmaids. We met in Bangladesh and she made the trip from the States to NZ to be there for us on our wedding day. We were excited when she got a job in DC and we found out we were moving to Baltimore; we lived out of each others' pockets while we were there. This trip was a bit hairy because getting in and out of DC is a nightmare, roads were closed on both journeys. We left at 5am and got back to the wedding shortly after 12, just on time to start serenading guests as they arrived.
That night we slept a full eight hours and felt much better for it. We left for Baltimore before anyone else was awake and made it into town in time for a birthday party of the little boy I used to babysit. His parents had become our gaming couple as they also love settlers and introduced us to a number of games we'd never heard of. Our day started with the party and was full of appointments for brunch/coffee/tea/lunch/coffee/dinner. By house number three, I requested no food and no drink: let's just talk. It was a really special day for us as we revisited this city we had grown to love and saw some people who are very dear to us, having shared those two years with us.
While the day time driving was glorious with the colours of fall everywhere we looked, we were handicapped by only having printed google directions for all of our destinations. For the most part they were fine but there were plenty of times when we had to call people and ask them to help guide us somewhere. Next time we'll definitely hire a GPS.
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