First things first: HAPPY HALLOWEEN! I started mine with a handful of candy corn and I hope you did the same.
The weekend feels like a loooong time ago because, well, it
was. But thanks to Sandy (oh Sandy), today is a work Wednesday that feels like
a Monday, so I have a semi-delayed Weekend(/Hurricane) Report to post!
Way back on Friday night, after working late (what the WHAT?
I know, that never happens to me!), my co-worker/officemate/climbing friend,
her husband, and I drove out to Shenandoah. We had originally planned to go
backpacking in West Virginia last weekend, but after hearing predictions of
storm and rain and wind and snow (all of which came true), we canceled (major
bummer). We settled for one night of car camping over no camping, which wasn’t
quite the same as backpacking through the wilderness, but still fun!
We sat around a campfire (go Mike and his ax!), slept in a
tent, and went for a glorious tail-end-of-fall-foliage hike the next day.
It was a 7-ish mile loop called “Little Devil’s Staircase.”
We ended up walking down the stairs, which is apparently (as observed from
everyone else coming up the stairs), the backwards way to go. Oh well. It looked like fall and felt like Thanksgiving – I love it!
We saw
some local flora (mushrooms and trees for the most part) but no major fauna (except
for the deer we almost hit driving out).
By 7 pm Saturday we were back in DC and ready for the storm.
Sunday, however, was quite pleasant. I went for a long run and
watched the tail end of the Marine Corps Marathon. I’m not going to lie guys…I’m
having thoughts of doing a marathon myself…please feel free to talk me out of
this insanity…
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Sunday night the oh so glorious Office of Personnel
Management (OPM) made the call – no work on Monday! And then again on Monday –
no work on Tuesday! Luckily I live in a
place where the power stays on, so my major hurricane accomplishments included 4
movies (Winter’s Bone, Kissing Jessica Stein, Vanity Fair, and Love Actually),
a run and a hill workout, reading on my front stoop mid-hurricane, a multi-CVS
expedition to secure us some candy corn, pumpkin oatmeal, pumpkin pancakes, and
once the Metro re-started, a trip to the rock gym.
I hope everyone weathered the storm ok and is staying safe and dry!
