ICE!

I hope everyone is off to a great 2011!  As most of you rang in the new year on December 31st, we did things a bit differently this year.   My husband had to be up for work at 4am New Year's Day so we decided to celebrate ours on December 30th.  We headed down to the Gaylord National Hotel at the National Harbor to see ICE!  If you live in the DC Metro area and can make it over to the Harbor prior to January 9th,  I highly recommend you do.  The Dr. Suess, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, themed ice sculptures are unlike anything I've ever seen before.  

As we walked around the Harbor, I made sure we visited the Peeps & Company store.  That's right... a Peeps Store.  It's a retail store with every kind of Peep imaginable.  Aaaannd....they have a full on Mike and Ike candy bar on one side of the store and a Hot Tamale candy bar on the opposite side.  Totally awesome!

The show not only included fabulous and super ginormous ice sculptures, it also included a history lesson on Dr. Suess himself and featured some of his original artwork.  Above are a few of my favorites displayed. 

(P.S. - I got in trouble for picking up that little corn on the cob and pretending to eat it.  Ha!)

And, if you are familiar with my new Sweet On Facebook page, you may have seen the mystery picture I posted.  Well, the answer to the puzzle is a giant Peeps Christmas tree!  It stood probably 15 feet tall and made of Peep Christmas trees.  Delish!

And finally, I spotted the Grinch behind the scenes and requested to have my picture taken with him.  Denied!

He said he wouldn't take personal pictures.  How very grinchy of him.

Be Sweet.

-Kristy

DC Cupcakes!!

The Patterson's weekend was filled with family, fun, new beginnings and CUPCAKES!  I saw the commercial for TLC's new show, DC Cupcakes, that features the hottest new bakery in Washington, D.C., Georgetown Cupcake.  So my one request was to go to the hip new bakery and taste some cupcakes!!  They are located in downtown Georgetown and recently opened a secondary shop in Bethesda, MD.

We arrived in Georgetown at 11am on Saturday morning and saw this:

As much as I love cupcakes and baked goods, I was not about to wait (or make my husband wait...you gotta pick and choose your battles ladies!) in that line so I took my picture in front of the store and we headed out to Potomac, MD to visit my side of the family.  Oh, and make a quick stop in Bethesda before heading home, for another shot at some Georgetown Cupcakes!!

Me in front of Georgetown Cupcake at the Georgetown location:

In line again at the Bethesda location.  As you can see, I'm only the 10th person in line!  I just love the colors, design, packaging and of course display of the delectables!

We decided to go with the half dozen.  How can you choose just one flavor??  

Our selection consisted of (From top left): Red Velvet, Key Lime, Coconut, Chocolate & Vanilla, Milk Chocolate Birthday, and Strawberry.

So far, Strawberry and Coconut are our favorite flavors.  I'm saving the Red Velvet for tonight's tasting!!  The red coloring would be PERFECT for our Redskin's Football party we'll be throwing soon!!  More details to come on that later, gators.

Be Sweet.

Kristy