This past weekend (yes, I know it’s Thursday. Am very busy and important.) PB and I went to see Carbon Leaf Great Big Sea at Wolftrap (www.Wolftrap.org). Apple and EvilWatergirl* (EW from now on) joined us. The concert was fantastic. It did pour, and PB wanted to upgrade to covered seating (we were on the lawn) but was overruled. Or told he could upgrade his ticket but we were staying. The worst rain was after the show when everyone was walking to their cars, so he’d have gotten soaked anyway.

The next day we (PB and I. Apple and EW did not join us.) went and visited the Udvar-Hazy Center (real name much longer). It was fascinating. Really good displays and lots of crazy flying contraptions. Seriously, there was a lawn chair attached to a rotor. I prefer my helicopters to have, oh, sides, a front, a floor, you know…

When we were walking downstairs to the main floor, I almost opened the fire exit. You know, rather than turn right and keep walking towards the staircase exit that lead to the museum. My excuse is that I was talking and not reading. But still, had the potential to be the most embarrassing thing ever. PB might have left me there.

In other news that was not at all this weekend, I have a new bookclub. It’s like my old bookclub, but with fewer married moms. Which means we won’t have long discussions about kids**. Also, they had had issues with how My Sister’s Keeper*** ended, so bonus.

*Not actually Evil. She had moved to Chicago right about the time that I moved to Richmond, so the joke was that I joined the group as her replacement. She is back, but it has been determined that a.) I can stay in the group and b.) we are not arch enemies.

**I like kids. I just don’t want to spend my bookclub time talking about them. Or hearing your stories of when you were in labor with them (actually happened.) Also, so not a discussion I can participate in.

***I hate the ending of that book.