Guns

So, I shot guns today. A glock 22, glock 27, and an mp5. I didn't do too badly for someone who has never held a gun that isn't plastic. I got to bring my target home and a couple of shells home so I will show y'all on Sunday. I suppose the real shock of the day is the fact that I didn't leave with a hole in my own body somewhere.

Flying Solo

I had a fairly productive day today. I got up at 9, showered, packed up all the stuff I won't need this week, and headed towards the zoo. The National Zoo is amazing. It's organized really well, minus the lack of maps in a few areas. Really pretty foliage and lots of animals, though they were taking refuge from the heat today. I did see quite a few though. One thing that freaked me out was the fact that the spiders were not in any sort of contained area. Wtf. I can't deal with spiders. And daddy, consider this my one week reminder to kill the damn deck spider!!

Tomorrow I think I'm going to wander around the mall. I am going to either go to the Jefferson memorial or to the Albert Einstein memorial. I kind of think the Einstein one sounds totally cool. Will probably hit the 9/11 Pentagon memorial, too.

The countdown hath begun. One week from today I will be sleeping in my own bed, though most likely not alone. I'm sure I'll have two cats who will be attached to my hip. I'm looking forward to Sunday like no other. I can't wait to see all of you guys.

More pics up on FLICKR. Good night.

Explosives

Yeah, we watched shit get blown up today. It was pretty neat. I uploaded a few pictures to FLICKR. The one of the really big explosion was an unintentional shot. It scared the CRAP out of me so much that I jumped and when I did, I hit the shutter release button.

Napping at the Smithsonian

So, when Stacey and I were sophomores in high school, we (along with 100 other students from South) came to DC for the inauguration. We had packed warm clothes, but they were in our suitcases under the bus. When we got to the city, our chaperone decided to just kick us off the bus and let us wander the city on our own. We only had windbreakers on us and it was raining. We still toured the city and saw the monuments and several museums. By the end of the day we were cold and tired and ended up falling asleep in one of the little theaters in the museum.

When she was here last weekend, we kind of made it our mission to find that theater because we had no idea where it was. After 8 years those things kind of slip, which is kind of sad. We did find it though. It was in the Air and Space museum. Little bit pathetic we couldn't remember since we had to walk past like 20 giant airplanes to get to the room, but still. Odd little reminiscence that I'm sure you really wanted to read about but we were happy. Oh, and we also saw Roseanne Barr in the Air and Space when we were here in 2001. We had to wander the cafeterias of museums to figure it out, but yeah. Good times.

Pictures

Sunday Stacey and I went to the Natural History Museum to see Night at the Museum. We also walked around Air and Space and went up to the top of the bell tower in the Old Post Office building. Yesterday we went to the National Archives to see all the totally awesome historic documents and did a night walk of the monuments last night. Pretty awesome. I think I walked more than ten miles with her this weekend.

Pictures are up on FLICKR and Facebook.

Stacey!

My best friend from high school came into town today. It was pretty awesome. We haven't seen each other since the summer after we graduated high school. We went to the American History Museum (Lincoln!), the White House, the Washington Monument, the Lincoln Monument, the World War II memorial, the Korean War Veterans Memorial, the Vietnam Veteran Memorial wall, and Arlington Cemetery. Busy day. It was great, though! Pictures are on Facebook and HERE on flickr.

Great Weekend

I had a great time this weekend with my friends. I'm pretty sure I already wrote about Piola. Great restaurant. Loved the Gnocchi. Wrote about Harry Potter, too, I believe. We toured the Capitol on Saturday. That was a really neat building. Though, that just goes without saying. Afterward, we headed over to the Library of Congress. Again, totally awesome. After that was a trek towards coffee and flip flops. Neither were much of a success but adventures are fun. We had originally planned to go out to the bars that night but after wandering over to King Street and finally partaking in sustenance we all decided we were way too tired to do anything so we packed up and headed home.

I felt a little blah on Sunday so I laid around the apartment until 2ish and I met everyone at the Holocaust museum. Very humbling experience. We weren't able to get tickets to the permanent exhibit so I will have to go back for that. Another failed coffee trek followed and then we got food at the American History Museum. Night at the Museum: Battle at the Smithsonian at the Smithsonian Natural History Museum ended the evening (for me anyway). The girls wandered around the monuments after I left to come back home. Work called.

Today I had to work. Incredibily boring day. I met the girls at the Archives station after and we headed into Georgetown for dinner. We ate at this slightly famous restaurant called Zed's which serves Ethiopian cuisine. Totally awesome foodstuffs. You eat with your fingers, too, using this bread-like stuff that they serve. Very unusual buth worth the random trek into Georgetown.

We hung out at my apartment this evening, playing Friends Scene It and Rock Band. Everyone was kind of tired so a quiet evening was best for all. We also got ice cream at Cold Stone.

I have uploaded pictures from their visit to Facebook and Flickr. View them HERE