We arrived in Richmond on Saturday evening, checked into our motel and crashed. On Sunday morning we visited the contemporary service at Third Presbyterian Church, where one of Emrys’ colleagues was preaching and then it was off for Mexican for lunch and it was fabulous. When in a city, one must take advantage of all dining options! The rest of Sunday was relatively restful as I was still recovering from over-doing it in DC.
Monday we checked out of our motel and headed out to take in some of the sights in Richmond. We started in Carytown – a cool little section of town full of gift shops and kitschy shopping options. We had lunch at Carytown Burger (see Emrys' post) which had come recommended by our friends Sophie & Jen who spent their undergrad years in Richmond and it was a wonderful meal!
After that we strolled down Cary St. and visited some of the many shops that specialized in everything from all Christmas stuff to all handmade crafts to books, games, spices, kitchen gadgets. You get the idea. In this area of specialty shops, I spotted For the Love of Chocolate. You got it – all chocolate! I’m not even blaming the need to stop in there, or my subsequent purchase on The Kid, it was all me! This little store had candy from around the world including the Cadbury Crunchy Bar that we’d only seen in New Zealand and Australia, Ritter Sport from Germany, Lindt extra dark yumminess and truffles and any other kind of chocolate you could imagine. It was awesome!
Sweet tooth sated we headed for Maymont Park. Since it was off-season and a Monday, there wasn’t a whole lot to see but we did enjoy wandering around the gardens after a brief rest in the visitor’s center.
From there we headed off to Richmond Hill where we spent the rest of our getaway in their community. Emrys was in meetings and discussion with his Company of Pastor’s group
and I spent the time mostly relaxing with knitting projects and my mp3 player. It was wonderful retreat and time of rest. Thursday I wasn’t quite ready to head home but was glad that I didn’t need another two days to recover from our vacation.
~sjt
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