Thanksgiving!

I love Thanksgiving! Sohail and I went to Charleston for the long weekend and spent some great family time. It was great to see Derek again and meet my niece Addy. Plus it was really fun seeing Charleston from a tourist's perspective. It was Sohail's first visit.

One of the most relaxing of places in my life - in front of the fireplace having aperitif with family and puppies.

Welcome to the family pretty Addy!

Serious Max...

Thanksgiving at my Dad & Joanne's

With my love

Joanne - not the most flattering picture ever but I must not have taken enough of the hostess.

Hors d'oeuvres on Thanksgiving

Cleo. We're getting closer as the years go on...

My Dad & Derek having fun with a camera. Clearly, I didn't take enough pictures of the host either!

Thanksgiving at Mom's

A French kids reunion. We accidentally let a Persian in the picture...

Thanksgiving dinner

Middleton Plantation

The Middleton house with Maman & Derek

Mr. Ed

Maman

A goat...

Spanish Moss

The marsh & a live oak

Sohail downtown

Sailing

During our walking tour of the city

St. Michael's

Charleston's always in bloom

A mandatory stop at South of the Border

the National Cathedral

And here are a few more photos I'd forgotten about from a few weekend's ago when Sohail and I walked to the National Cathedral.

Flowers from my Mom for passing the bar

A bus on my street....
I think they were from California (they must have been - what else could explain this double hippie-mobile?)

The National Cathedral

Garden at the Cathedral

Harper's Ferry hike

I just found these photos from a hike I did a few weeks ago with some friends in Harper's Ferry. The leaves were still beautiful when we did it.

The tracks in Harper's Ferry

Beautiful trees in town

A view of the town from the mountain.

Alicia & Sabrina

Eric Lewis jazz

Eric Lewis is one of the most amazing musicians I've ever heard and I'm happy to have heard him again last night with good friends. There were several other friends there including Alicia & Rebecca (picture below) but I didn't have my camera so I'm stealing these photos from a friend.

Check him Eric Lewis out here: http://www.ericlewisgroove.com/

Sohail with Kim and Kwame

Jordan and Allison

The stage at HR 57

At Rice (my favorite DC restaurant) before the show

Hike!

My apologies for the hiatus from blogging. Being out of law school has made me much less likely to turn my computer on at home... but I'm back!

Last weekend I went on a wonderful hike in Virginia only about 45 minutes from DC with a few friends. The weather was absolutely beautiful. At the start of the hike, we saw an old water mill. Then we hiked about 2 hours to a spot with a wonderful view where we had a picnic. Oddly, everyone had a peanut butter sandwich of some kind (pb & j, pb & bananna for me, pb and pickle, and plain pb). Then we hiked around for the rest of the day until we got back to the car.

This weekend Sohail surprised me with tickets to a latino dance festival. There were troupes from Cuba, Mexico, Argentina, Spain, and Bolivia. The dancing was beautiful but it was especailly fun because I felt like I was reliving my trips to some of those places. And today I had two soccer games. Now I'm exhausted!

Happy Halloween everyone! This is the trunk of tree we saw...

Some great stone benches...

These trees were still really green but beautiful.

Rebecca & Alicia hiking

Alicia after lunch

Our view during lunch

Lunch time

Part of the mill

More of the mill

The water mill