Happy Easter!

I spent the weekend in Maryland, having Easter at my sister’s place. That’s Chloe, her new dog, in the photo up above. My parents and I drove there Saturday morning, after we left our dog at the vet, and we met up for dinner at a restaurant in Bethesda with a group of extended family — namely, my sister and her husband, his sister and her husband, their mother and an uncle, and one of my and my sister’s aunts and uncles. It was a big group, but it was a good meal, and the weather was just wonderful all weekend long.

This morning, we checked out of the hotel — yeah, this was my second weekend in a row living out of a hotel — and had brunch at my sister’s house. It was a lot of fun, even if Chloe decided to act a lot more skittish than yesterday and actually growl at me for most of the morning. My sister seemed to think maybe it was my beard, but it’s not like I didn’t have it on Saturday. (Then again, it is getting a little bushy, and even I’m a little scared of it sometimes.)

We left a little around noon, and I did a lot of reading in the car. We had dinner at a local diner on the way home — shrimp scampi over rice for me — and came home. We’ll pick the dog up from the kennel tomorrow, after his (gulp) bath.