living and growing together

What a happy and community-filled weekend it’s been!

Friday night we hung out in the basement with the hookah and had some good conversations. On Saturday morning, I decided I didn’t really want any of the breakfast options that were available and neither did I want to get stuck in the house all day like I did last week. So, decision: take the PATCO to Philly, walk to Reading Terminal Market, and get a hot apple dumpling from the Amish. So I did – yum! I also got a latté, and sat at a little table near the 12th Street windows and read the City Pages. Ahhh.

Then I wandered around the market some more and bought some cheap pure maple syrup at another Amish stand – it was from Pennsylvania and half the price of what that amount of syrup usually costs. Hooray! On my way out, I couldn’t resist the 99 cent/lb fuji apples and local cameos, so I bought 4. My bag was rather heavy on the way home, but it was worth it.

I walked through the underground Market East Station mall on my way back to the PATCO. I got to the stop just as a train was arriving, so I checked the direction sign and hopped on it, forgetting that West was not the direction I wanted to go until we came to the next stop…oops! So I got off and waited 20 more minutes for the next train East. I decided to be interesting and get off at the Broadway station in Camden instead of at City Hall – it made the walk home 4 blocks longer, but I got to walk through a different part of town, which I enjoyed.

I made turkey and dumpling soup for dinner on Saturday just cuz I felt like cookin’, which we all ate in the living room together while the football game was on. Later, there was more hookah-ing and conversation.

Today was really cool. 4 of us went to mass across the street at Holy Name this morning at 9. When we got back, we all jumped on Dan’s bed to wake him up so that we could go out to breakfast at Honey’s Sit & Eat in Philadelphia. It’s a really popular breakfast place, so we had to wait 45 minutes after putting our name on the list before we could be seated. Conveniently, the Random Tea Room is just down the block, so we waited there and enjoyed some chai until they radioed down for us. Honey’s is rustic and cozy and delicious: I had the French toast with nutella, strawberries and pears.

We left at 12:30 and drove to the art museum, which is pay-what-you-can on Sundays, and spent about an hour there, then came home just in time to watch the Eagles vs. Giants football game. That's the 4th football game I've watched in the last 8 days. Never in my life did expect to watch so much football... At least the Eagles won.