To avoid typical Friday bumper to bumper traffic, we started our adventure by shopping around in the Fairfax area. I had completely forgotten that Nordstrom Rack had come to Fairfax and was very excited to spend some time in their. Now, for large stores such as Nordstrom Rack, Ross and Forever 21, I just don't have the patience to dig around racks of clothes; however, my bestest, Adriana has the patience and eye for this atmosphere of shopping which I can only do with her by my side. We were successful with our shopping time slate and headed back to her house to pick up Sophie (her friends dog) to bring with us to Baltimore.
Now, Sophie is no ordinary dog... she is less than a year old and is twice as big as I am and slobbers and drools allll over you. She's even too big to big in the back seat comfortably. Sophie is sweet but is udderly attached to Adriana like a mama's girl and I had to fight her for the passenger seat.
With avoiding Friday night traffic, we were aware that we'd be eating a late dinner once we arrived in Baltimore, BUT I was so excited for our feast that was waiting for us! Adriana's dad is an amazing cook and the last time I was around for his cooking was about 4 years ago. He had made the most wonderful and delicious turkey burgers I have ever had in my entire life and was making them as a special treat for my arrival :) I could not wait!
Once we arrived and said our hellos we went straight to eating the delicious meal that was prepared. I kid you not - I ate like 4 turkey burgers. BUT, before you judge me on my eating consumption, they were the size of sliders so I technically ate what would add up to about 2 regular size burgers :)
We called it an early night with just relaxing and watching movies to fall asleep to. We woke up early to go to the gym and take a Body Pump class with Adriana's step mom, Margie. Adriana and I go to the gym all the time and have taken Body Pump numerous times; however, by the end of this particular class I was about to keel over. I was in so much pain and had worked muscles I didn't know could hurt! I ended up being sore for 4 days after the weekend was over and could hardly sit down.
After Body Pump, we went back to the house and got ready for an afternoon of apple picking! We researched an assortment of places to go to and settled on Larriland Farm. It's a beautiful place especially this time of year with pumpkin picking, picnic area, local folk band, kettle corn and funnel cake vendors, hay rides and a country store with vegetables, apple butter, apple cider and other amazing things! It was such a neat place to spend our afternoon. Families swarmed the fun-filled farm with acres of apple trees in sight for our apple picking needs.
Adriana found it unacceptable to be at an apple farm with rows and rows of multiple kinds of apples and not climb a tree.. she just had to!
We climbed this tree even though it looks like a bush
Mmmm.. apples!
We left Larriland Farms with bags full of apples and headed back to the house. We took the dogs for a looong walk around the quarry and visited Adriana's sister to see her baby, Mia then went to pick up a pumpkin to make a pie that evening. I've never made pumpkin pie from scratch and was actually pretty excited to learn how.
That evening we had delicious Thai food for dinner (love) and ventured back to the house for the pumpkin pie extravaganza!
It was a very eventful weekend with one exciting activity after another. I'm so happy that my best friend is in the area now and that we get to take on these adventures with each other. More to come! :)
