This was the view early this morning from our room at the Maryland Inn in Annapolis, where we spent Wednesday and Thursday nights as part of the second leg of our last trip of the year.The inn, which has a Starbucks in its erstwhile basement tavern space, dates from before the 18th century, is quite picturesque, and our room was very nice and comfortable. Our only complaint, which I imagine may be a critique as old as the inn itself, is that it straddles two thoroughfares so it didn't make for very peaceful sleeping in the wee hours of the New Year. That's because enough fire engines and ambulances and police cruisers sped by our second-floor window as to force my husband to get up bleary eyed to see if we were missing the Storm of the Century. But it wasn't the weather, probably just a usually busy night for law enforcement in a moderately large city.
We left Annapolis, where my sister lives with my three luminous god-children, around 8 a.m. and arrived, safe and sound, back in our home around 4:30 p.m., thereby avoiding the dusk and all the complications that travel on a very cold day around such time adds to any trip.
Now, warm and cozy and relatively re-settled into our home, with the furry children all in their appointed places, I can't help but hope that 2010 will be better for all of us. Here's to hope! Happy New Year everyone!
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