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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

Fun

I started to write a blog, but I just realized it was ridiculously out of whack due to lack of sleep. I've been up nearly 21 hours now. Way too long. So, here's a run down of what's going on in my world.

Had a tour yesterday. I held a big-ass gun.
My friends came into town.
We ate at Five Guys Burgers and Fries. Best hamburger ever. Grandma would LOVE it.
Hung out at my apartment.
Played insomniac.
Woke up at 5:30 after 3 hours of sleep.
Worked.
Set up my first real interview for a post-grad job.
Accidental three-minute power nap at my desk.
Attempted real nap after work. Failed.
Went to dinner at Piola. Had the best gnocchi ever. That was one of the foods Joe introduced me to in San Francisco at this little restaurant near his apartment. It is amazing.
Saw Harry Potter. I'd write more about that but I don't think anyone who reads this actually cares about the movie. It was funny but also strayed considerable from the book. Okay, that's all I'm really writing.
Now I'm back and it's 2:30 in the morning. I really need to go to bed so on that note. GOOD NIGHT.

Hrm

Not really anything to blog about since I just saw most of you a few days ago. Miss you already! My friends are coming this week - Gail and Mollie. We're going to do a nighttime tour of the monuments for photos, tour the Capitol building, go to the Air and Space Museum because Buzz Aldrin will be there, and have drinks at an Irish Pub. I'll take pics and post them after the weekend is up.

July 4, 2009

Productivity

I had a fairly productive day yesterday. I helped Jess move her stuff into her new apartment in the morning. We came back to my apartment and hung out. We wandered around Alexandria and found some restaurants within walking distance of me. It's actually really pretty around here. We went to the movies and saw The Proposal. That movie is one of the funniest I've seen in a while. I laughed a lot. Betty White is hilarious (so were Ryan Reynolds and Sandra Bullock). We walked over to this place called Potbelly's for dinner. It was kind of like a Quizno's/Penn Station type deal. We walked to King Street which is the historic district. Lots of restaurants and shops and whatnot. On our way back we passed a Whole Foods grocery store so we picked up some food. Which was probably a good idea considering my only food options prior to the trip were fruit snacks and ravioli. Went to the gym after the store and then came back, read for a bit, and went to bed. I know most of you know this already, but I'm flying home on Wednesday night and staying through Sunday evening. CANNOT wait to see you all!