Coming at you live today from Nana and Pop-pop's in Reston, VA!
I was actually supposed to be in New York City right now. Chase and I were going to head up today to see a performance tonight and then head back tomorrow, but thanks to the crazy snowfall in NY/NJ, all reasonable transportation options were cancelled. It's really a bummer since the show is going to be spectacular (Merde to everyone dancing in "Prelude" tonight at The Joyce!), but getting to hang at my grandparents' house with the fam is a perfect alternative!
No matter how old I get, coming to Nana and Pop-pop's house is one of my favorite visits to make while I'm home. I love the people, I love the area, I love the house...I was thinking as I turned into their street last week how much I'd love to live in this house someday (if only I could somehow get it to New York or find jobs dancing in Northern Virginia, neither of which are seeming like doable options for the time being! Haha!). It's a fabulous house and a lot of time has been spent in it since the time I was born. It sits in some of Reston's beautiful woods. The front/side is spacious and has a great hill perfect for sledding. The backyard has a big deck that feeds into the patio where us kids used to ride our plastic big wheels around and draw with chalk. There's a woodshed where we used to play "Train" and pretend we were travelers going across the country on, you guessed it, a train, using rocks for fuel, sticks for steering mechanisms, upside down buckets for stools and seats, and we even had a map of the U.S. up so that we knew where we were heading. Beyond that is the bike path...I used to go for walks back there all the time. There was a swing set down the path in either direction that I liked to visit often. There are tall, tall trees all over the place. There's No Place Like Home! (a quote from Pop-pop's favorite movie) is painted over the window in the kitchen. The SuperNintendo in the basement is still hooked up and still works. (Morgan and I just came up from playing Mario World 3, actually!) Holidays are held here. "Spa time" happens frequently while I'm home (which is just me coming to visit to eat a lot of chocolate, watch some old movies and hang out and do nothing :)) This house is filled with a lot of memories and is one of the places that I look forward to coming back to the most when I'm home from school :)
I'll never get tired of this place :)
Today, Sourwood Lane and the home in the trees make me happy :)
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