St. Michaels Trip, a Rough Week, and House Progress

We had a great time in St. Michaels! That town is seriously the cutest, and we had so much fun wandering around. It's only about a 2.5 hour drive from where we live, so that wasn't bad at all. We left Saturday morning and started out our roadtrip in the best way: by stopping at Dunkin Donuts for some much needed coffee and bagels. Our 2.5 hour drive was quite lovely thanks to our coffees, and we stopped at the house where we met first, because it was right before you get into the town of St. Michaels. The drive down the small street that the house was on was kinda creepy, because there were definitely lots of signs saying "Private Road", etc.... but I was too excited to see the house to care too much. When we arrived at the house, we were sad to see that they've painted it!  It was a nice happy yellow color before, but now it's a dreary grey. I'm sure on any other house I would like the grey color, but it just doesn't fit for this house (It's right on the water! So beautiful). They were also doing a ton of construction on the house, and it looked like they were gutting it. Such a bummer...

There's the house... They also had a ton of construction going on, and a trailer out front. 

There's a better view of the house! It's a nice grey, really... But to me that house should always be yellow :)  And Kevin did NOT want his picture in front of the house because he was quite ready to leave! It did feel kinda shady to be on that quiet dirt "Private Road"... 

After briefly stopping by the house (we were there maybe 2 minutes), we continued on our way to St. Michaels and got to our beautiful hotel. We got all checked in there and then walked around town! We started off at the Eastern Shore Brewery for a few beers, and then we wandered over to the Sea Glass Festival, because apparently that's a thing! We had no idea that was going on while we would be there, but there were signs everywhere for it so we figured it was worth a visit. It was an adorable little festival, and it was fun to wander around. The whole day was spent wandering around the cute little town, with stops to eat or drink at various restaurants whenever we were thirsty or hungry. We had fresh oysters at two different places (I looooove fresh oysters, but I don't like other seafood... I'm sure it does NOT make sense, but it is what it is...), and we had lots of beer from Eastern Shore Brewery because that's the beer they had in every restaurant! Our night actually ended back at the brewery playing some games, because that place was DESERTED! The town shuts down at about 8pm I think. We played foosball and shuffleboard until 9pm when it closed! :)

Here's me in front of the Maryland flag!  Maryland LOOOOOVES their flag and it is always everywhere. It is a super cool flag... I loved my years of living in Maryland! 

Here's Kevin in front of The Crab Claw Restaurant! We had oysters and beer here :) 

Here were some ducks that joined us for lunch. I took this while we were sitting at our table. 

There were pretty flowers everywhere around town! Yay Spring! 

The next day we got up fairly early and went outside of our hotel to sit by the water. It was SO peaceful and relaxing and quiet! We were in heaven. After enjoying the peace and the view, we went to get some breakfast, and then we went for a bike ride! The hotel had a ton of bikes that you could just ride around whenever you wanted (for free), so that was cool. I am not confident in my biking skills, so we rode our bikes AWAY from town and went to check out some neighborhoods and a yacht club that was down the street from the hotel. It was a lovely ride, and Kevin was SO encouraging about my bike riding abilities (I was super wobbly! But I didn't fall or anything).

My handsome husband hanging out by the water in the morning! 

Quite a view! 

The chairs that the hotel had set up. 

So, it was an AMAZING weekend. But it wasn't a great week... Our friend Juliff's father passed away, so that has been awful. Poor Juliff... We went to the viewing service on Tuesday and the funeral service on Wednesday. Kevin and I also both had really rough work weeks with some craaaaazzy long hours (I worked til 11pm one night...), so this week just sucked. It was just all-around not good. 

Our weekend has been off to a good start though... This morning we woke up SUPER early (so that part wasn't great), because I had a 7:45am appointment to donate platelets, and Kevin drove me there and then picked me up a few hours later. We also got some house stuff done today, including re-painting the office, because my first try at that was a bit of a disaster! It looked horrible... It was so streaky and I have NO idea what could have happened. So today we re-painted, and I'm hoping tomorrow it will look a LOT better (fingers crossed!!). We also went to Home Depot and bought some plants for our garden! We worked on our yard a bit when we got back from Home Depot, and planted some of the plants. I'll do another post this week where I show you that (and hopefully pictures of a well-painted office?!). Oh, and I saw a (sort of) celebrity at our Home Depot! It was the host of Stone House Revival, if you've ever seen that show. I didn't say hi because he looked busy (and I couldn't place what show he was from at first...), but it was definitely him (and he does definitely live around here, so I now know he goes to my Home Depot!).  So, it's been a busy and productive day, but also really good.  Now we're relaxing and watching a movie. 

There he is! He's even more handsome in person.... Haha :) 

I hope you've all had a great week! Love you all! Happy Easter!!!