Mothers & Motorcycles

Having learned our lesson from years past, we kept our plans for Mother's Day fairly simple this year: Owen and I baked some fresh blueberry muffins for breakfast, and we planned on a trip to the Arboretum before nap time. We also thought we'd swing by Frager's to pick up some pepper plants before heading up to the Arboretum, and in this small, little detail, the seeds of our plan's destruction were sewn. As we drove down towards Lincoln Park on our way to Frager's, we hit a bizarre Capitol Hill traffic jam -- we could see up ahead that the police had blocked off the road ahead for "Rolling Thunder", a parade of motorcycles. Trapped on a one way street with cars behind us, we were lucky enough to be next to an open parking space, so we parked the van and changed our plans. Owen had a lovely Mother’s Day morning watching the motorcycles roar by and there was eventually enough of a gap for us to cross the street and play in the park as the parade of motorcycles turned into a parade of Corvettes. We headed back home for lunch and a nap, but we weren’t done with the park quite yet. Our friends Andrew & Claire and their son Luke were down at Eastern Market in the afternoon, and gave us a call from Lincoln Park right as we were waking up from nap-time. So we went back to the park so Owen and Luke could play together, making salad in their hats and chasing monsters around the grass. We topped off the evening with all of us heading back to our place to grill some sausages for dinner. Nothing went according to plan, but we had a lovely Mother’s Day none the less.