Cardon Stories: Fall is Here!

It is now Fall which is probably my favorite season. We have a lot of fun things planned for the next couple months including a Thanksgiving trip with friends to a cabin in the Shenandoahs and a trip back to Utah to be with family for Christmas. Also, Aimee is finishing her Master’s degree in December! It will be great when she is done because it has been a lot of work to do the degree while also working full-time.

Life for us lately is pretty much like normal and consists mostly of going to work (which doesn’t make for interesting blog content). I am glad the elections are over. The only major change in our “lifestyle” is we are trying to eat healthier by cutting out as much processed food as possible. We have started making green smoothies everyday which are really good probably because ours are mostly fruit with a little spinach or other green mixed in. We have also tried to eat less pasta. That has been a hard one because we usually use some form of pasta as a base for many of our meal ideas.

In our spare time we have found some interesting things to do. Last weekend was beautiful 70 degree weather and we had to be outside so we decided to go to the zoo. We hadn’t been there for a long time so we enjoyed seeing some of the changes they have made in the last few years. We decided to go via metro which turned out to be a bad decision but we still had fun. Afterwards we went to a birthday dinner for one of Aimee’s school friends at a really nice Thai place in Shirlington.

The male lions put on quite a show with their roaring and pacing but the females were content with just relaxing.

The Metro has some pretty long escalators. Every time we take Metro Aimee is amazed that I can handle riding it every day.

We have really been enjoying our new apartment which, while it is only a one bedroom, is significantly larger than our last place. It is so much quieter here that I don’t know how we handled our last apartment for so long. It also gets darker at night because we don’t have a Mercedes dealership across the street. To make it even darker at night we bought some blackout curtains but after using them for two nights we quit using them because we found it a lot harder to wake up in the morning without natural sunlight. Oh well. At least they weren’t too expensive! We have done a little exploring in our new neighborhood. Here are a few pictures we took.

Notice how long Aimee’s hair is getting!

Colorful flowers.

For Christmas last year Aimee got me a certificate for a Composition in the Field photography class. The classes filled up pretty fast for the session I wanted so I ended up using it just a few weeks ago. The class took us around Georgetown neighborhoods to help us get some nice pictures. The normal instructor had to cancel and we got a substitute that wasn’t very good but I still had fun. It turned out to be a really good night to go because Aimee went with some friends to the ballet at the Kennedy Center the same night. Here are a few of the places we went.

They have tracks in the road for where they used to have a railcar system.

We passed a storefront selling these delicious look macaroons. Luckily one girl in the class slipped inside and got a few to share with the class. They taste even better than they look!

We also made it up to Annapolis for a fun little daytrip. For dinner we went to an Asian restaurant that had odd seating. The table was sunk into the floor and you sit on the floor with your feet hanging into the pit with the table. It was interesting but I think I prefer a normal table.