Just an 80 -plus -year- old grandmother who is keeping her mind active by posting some simple blogs from time to time. This gives me something to do that is somewhat creative each day. I have to remember how to take a few photos and once taken how to add them to my blog. Feedback is welcome. Photos by me unless otherwise noted.
Showing posts with label Columbia Maryland. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Columbia Maryland. Show all posts
Over the weekend I visited cousins and friends in Columbia Maryland. On the way back from dinner Rick, Joan and I drove through the Symphony of Lights Display in downtown Columbia. This really put me in the Christmas spirit. We tuned the radio to the designated station and there was Christmas music playing as we drove through.
I had a great time visiting everyone and this spectacular display was just the icing on the cake for me.
A favorite restaurant of ours in Columbia,Maryland, is the Tomato Palace in the
Town Center by Lake Kittamaqundi. We ate dinner there on Monday night with my cousins.
The view of the Lake Kittamaqundi from the restaurant.
I had a most delicious meal of broiled scallops with a green salad. Cindy had a crab cake dinner, but Dan and the rest had Italian dishes. Dan said his meal was the best Italian food he's had since returning from Italy.
Broiled scallops still sizzling in the pan.
Joan and I shared a chocolate bread pudding with ice cream for dessert and even then the half serving was too much for one person.
Having dinner at the Tomato Palace has turned into a kind of ritual whenever we visit Columbia, and I can't wait to get back there on our trip home.
With the temperatures soaring into the 90s, it's good to be heading north to cooler climes. We usually depart on a Sunday and make our way up I85 to Richmond, and then over to Hwy 301 via Bowling Green, VA and on to Columbia, MD. This way we skirt around Washington, DC and avoid the traffic of the Beltway. Sure there are numerous traffic lights this way, but it's a much less stressful drive.
We cross over the Potomac on the Governor Harry Nice Memorial Bridge from Virginia into Maryland. The Bridge is a 1.7-mile, two-lane truss bridge.
The Harry Nice Memorial Bridge.
Check out this video so you can ride with "us" across the Bridge.
I have cousins in Columbia, and we usually stop for a visit with them, and one of Dan's former graduate students and his wife live in Columbia, and we connect with them. So this is a good stop on the first leg of our journey north.
