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Things to Do - Best of 2014

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I couldn't let a year go by without a "best of" list. If you need more inspiration, click here and scroll down for 2013 and 2014's lists. And then click over to Not-So-SAHM and Where the Watermelons Grow to see all the things that made their 2014 fantastic.

BOOKS (all fiction this year):
* Revenge: Eleven Dark Tales
* The Lowland
* I Am an Executioner: Love Stories
* The Interestings
* The Optimist's Daughter
* The Museum of Innocence
* The Progress of Love
* The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P.
* What Ends
* Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
* Euphoria

TV:
* The Up Series
* Broad City, Season 1
* Transparent, Season 1
* Puberty Blues, Season 2
* The Americans, Season 1
* Girls, Season 3
* True Detective, Season 1

MOVIES:
* Boyhood
* Searching for Vivian Maier
* Blended (Adam Sandler at his best)
* Gone Girl
* The One I Love
* Sons of Perdition
* Who is Dayani Cristal?
* Searching for Sugarman

FAMILY MOVIES:
* Blackfish
* The Fantastic Mr. Fox
* Big Hero 6
* The Lego Movie
* Adventures in Babysitting
* Pretty In Pink

MUSIC:
* Bleacher's Strange Desire
* Lorde's Pure Heroine
* Josh Ritter and Gregory Alan Isakov at the Lincoln Theater
* Bombay Bicycle Club's So Long, See You Tomorrow
* Band of Horses at Wolftrap
* my Margaritas at the Playground mix
* Streets of Laredo, Volume I and II
* Secret Nation's self-titled album
* The 1975's self-titled album

LOCAL (new places):
* Sledding at TJ
* The Mansion on O Street scavenger hunt
* The Adventure Park at Sandy Spring (P's old enough to do the greens now!!)
* Tuckahoe and Rocky Run playgrounds
* Hiking at Potomac Overlook Park
* Hiking from Riverbend Park to Great Falls
* Fishing and floating on the Shenandoah River
* Swimming at Flag Ponds Nature Park
* Trapeze class at TSNY
* Mudderella with my mom friends
* Days of Endless Time at the Hirshhorn
* Watching World Cup games at the Arlington Cinema Drafthouse
* Christmas Tree shopping at Ticonderoga Farms
* Elsabe Dixon at the Artisphere
* Second City at the Drafthouse (date night)

VACATION PLACES:
* Great Wolf Lodge's Howlin' Tornado (Williamsburg, VA)
* Moms' weekend of karaoke and Cards Against Humanity (Rehoboth Beach, DE)
* Barrier EcoTours and Charlestowne Landing (Charleston, SC)
* Coronas on the beach (Corolla, NC)
* The North Carolina Aquarium (Manteo, NC)
* Camping on the beach at Assateague Island (Berlin, MD)
* Cabin camping at Cunningham Falls (Thurmont, MD)
* Kayaks and Fiesta Island on Lake Champlain (South Hero, VT)
* Hiking Torrey Pines State Park (Sand Diego, CA)
* The beach in October (Cape Charles, VA)
* Margaritas and Bourbon Street (New Orleans, LA)

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