I like to sleep in on Sundays. Hell, I’d like to sleep in every day, but necessities like shelter, food and that unlucky lottery ticket prevent that from happening.

My alarm was set for 8:00 this morning and after two snooze hits I finally got into gear. I’m out on the bike at 8:50, on time to meet my brother and his family for a DC Ducks tourist tour. While the DC Ducks is the quirkiest of all the traditional DC tourist tours, I was still excited about doing it, and especially with my niece and nephew. While Will is too young to remember our excursion (he’s only 18 mos) Sarah Jane probably will keep this in memory, especially when we bus dipped into the river for the boat part of the trip. She even got to steer the boat for a while! Apparently, she likes going in circles, but I think that’s because she wasn’t big enough to see over the bus/boat’s dashboard.

After a quick lunch at Union Station, I left to get some things done before the evening and took an extended bike tour throughout Capitol Hill, just because the weather was so pleasant.

Tonight I met up with EFP and his new beau, and friend Justin whom I hadn’t seen in about six years. It’s EFPs 40th birthday which we all know is the new 30th. We met up for some meet-n-greet cocktails and then headed over to Rice for dinner. Our evening was filled with wine, plenty of food for the four of us and lots and lots of loud laughter. All in all it was a pretty fun evening, EFP had a great b-day, and I was able to catch a not too late bus back across town.

I don’t have any pix of the evening since the restaurant was so dark and the iPhone doens’t have a flash. That’s one thing that I’m regretting about not lugging around my actual camera anymore, is that there aren’t a lot of nighttime pix anymore. We’ll have to look into that. The old camera I have is pretty bulky, maybe it’s time to get a new, slimmer one?