Weekend Snapshots: Ghosts, Pumpkins & Food

October 30, 2005 at 9:44 pm · Filed under Uncategorized

I think I’m suffering withdrawal symptoms from a lack of peanut butter this weekend. It’s a jittery feeling I get in my stomach when I’m not hungry but I feel like I need nutrients. I think my whole system is out of whack from eating real food this weekend!

We arrived Saturday afternoon and went for a bike ride through the paths and the neighborhood. We had reservations at 6:45 for a Ghost Tour of Alexandria and then dinner at Bilbo Baggins. (Yes, I am totally serious. That was the name of the restaurant. No, they did not serve hobbit food.) So we needed a lite snack after our bike ride, since dinner was going to be so late.

Shopping Girl had made these ‘tea’ sandwiches she had seen on a tv-food show. They were cream cheese, cantelope and prosciutto on rye bread. They were so delicious that we devoured them, and she had to make more. It was a unique, sophisticated taste; I would definitely recommend it for your next tea party.

The Ghost Tour was awesome!! We walked around and listened to an exceptional tour guide tell ghost stories about different buildings being haunted. Probably the best one was the story of Herbert and Henry and what happened when they both fell in love with the same woman. I’ll make you wait with anticipation until tomorrow, though, since it will be Halloween and the perfect time to post a good ghost story. So you’ll have to come back after the witching hour of 7 pm, when I’ll post it. (You might find it a good bedtime story for your little tots… if you don’t mind being awakened all night by their nightmares.)

After the Ghost Tour we went to Bilbo Baggins. (That still sounds funny to me. Even though I’m a huge Tolkien fan, I would never name my restaurant Bilbo Baggins.) Anyway, it turns out that Bilbo has quite a sophisticated palate, and the entries all sounded like contest results on the Iron Chef show. Don’t get me wrong - the food was delicious. I ordered a Beef Filet with some fancy potatoes, which was as close as I could get to plain, boring food. For dessert, we had white chocolate bread pudding, which was to die for!

After dinner, we walked up to watch John Carlisle’s funeral. People in period dress carried the casket out of his home, put it on the horse-drawn carriage. The mourners (also in period dress) followed. The bagpipe players brought up the rear. Then all the sightseers who wanted to followed the procession through the middle of the street as it made its way to the cemetary.

That was pretty cool, but not as cool as the rubber-necking I was doing all night. OMG, those houses are breathtakingly beautiful, with elaborate architectural details and stately home furnishings. I love old homes like that, built like they can’t be built anymore.

This morning, Babybull cooked bacon and scrambled eggs with cheese for us. A big ‘real’ breakfast. Then we carved pumpkins while steaks and chicken cooked in a smoker outside. We had grilled onions, squash & zucchini with the meat. Unless I’m in a restaurant, I don’t eat that, because I don’t even know what it is, let alone how to cook it. Once, a friend of mine gave me a zucchini from her garden. I had to ask her what it was. Then I had to ask Jagman how to cook it. Neither one of us knew.

So we had a great, fun-filled, food-filled weekend. Babybull has a scale at his house; we don’t. The only time we check our weight is when we go to his house. I was 113 when I got there and 113 when I left, but only because we rode our bikes for 20 km and went for a run this morning.

I went to the grocery store when we got home. I bought peanut butter, bananas and bagels.

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