In case you can’t tell from my elaborate and prolific Weekend Reports, I love weekends. Don’t get me wrong, I enjoy my weeks too, but there’s something truly wonderful about 6pm Friday through Sunday: 48 hours of 100% Mollie-time in which I have no real responsibilities or obligations and I can do whatever I want.
And this weekend was the epitome of that principle. I started Friday (which was record breaking temperature-wise) with some evening pool lounging in Foggy Bottom with LLC. I’m pretty sure that 6-8pm is the most magical time to be pool-side – it’s still hot but not brutally sunny and the pool area is almost empty except for the most dedicated loungers (i.e. my favorites to people-watch).
I was comfortably couching by the time the storm hit. At first I glanced out the window – oh it’s kinda windy out there. A few minutes later the lightning and thunder and downpour began. Unlike far too many people in the area, my power stayed on, so I had no idea how bad the storm was until I left my apartment the next morning. Trees down, cars crushed, and power-lines out…it’s pretty surreal to wake up to a beautiful summer morning and see so much destruction.
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(This is right by my apartment.) |
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First course: coffee and peaches and raspberries.
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Second course: Yotam Ottolenghi's Skillet-Baked Eggs with Arugula, Garlic Greek Yogurt, and Sage Butter, lox, and sourdough toast.
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By 3pm we rolled ourselves to the pool for an afternoon of lounging and napping and sitting in the water (the best thing ever is the every-30-minutes “kids break” because yay we’re not kids, so double-yay we get the shallow end to ourselves for 15 minutes!).
I felt like quite the sloth on Sunday – I slept in until 11 am!!! I NEVER sleep that late. It was glorious. But I redeemed myself for my laziness by heading to my local indoor pool for a 60-minute pool run (note that this was a pool workout, no lounging included).
And that, my friends, was that. Hope you all had a relaxing weekend too!