Day 6: A Taste of “Home”
by Andrew JohnsonBonnie and Jim’s place is great. They also just moved from their home of many years this summer to a brand new “retirement” community. We spent the morning running errands, the most important of which was to get RainX – but the cruel irony is that you can’t apply it in the rain (it is raining now), so we have it, but can’t use it yet! Hopefully it’ll dry up before we have to leave here. We went to the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum at Dulles, which we highly, highly recommend. They have the original on the Mall in DC, the storage unit out on the Beltway and this new one. It’s a huge double hanger with actual complete aircraft parked there. They have a Space Shuttle, a Concord, a Boeing 707, war birds, the Enola Gay, and many many other craft and exhibits. It was the second most exciting part of the day.
The most exciting (for Spike anyway) was the discovery of a new Wegmans very close to Bonnie’s. Those who know Spike know that she’d live in a Wegmans if we didn’t have a home. We felt like we were back in Syracuse – a taste of home before leaving the East Coast. We all have our places of worship, and aisles and aisles of new and interesting food and wine and entertaining concepts just happens to be what warms the cockles of Spike’s heart….She winced a few tears as she used her coffee card and swiped her Shoppers Club Card….I’m verklempt….Talk amongst yourselves…mmmm…
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