A Long Weekend...

Well, we were up bright and early on Saturday morning for our walking tour of Washington D.C. We started by walking over the Key Bridge to Rosslyn and jumping the Metro there. It was like Kindergarden all over again- we all had to have a "buddy" so we didn't have to do a head count when we left different places. We got off at the Faragut West Metro stop and explaored the area surrounding the front side of the White House, met some protestors who have been sitting in front of the White House 24/7 for over 25 years, walked through an extremely classy hotel (the Willard Hotel), saw the house where Lincoln was killed, Ford Theater, the alley John Wilkes Booth escaped from, Clara Barton's office building, condos that start at $1,700 a month, the National Building Museum, and much more. Professor Stiles is an excellent tour guide and she had a lot of great stories to tell us. We ended the day at Union Station for lunch and shopping. Check out http://www.culturaltourismdc.org/information2546/information_show.htm?doc_id=71433 for more details on where exactly we went on our tour. We didn't follow the map exactly, but we hit many of the locations on all of the loops.

After lunch at Union Station a few of us got the idea that we were hungry for some cheesecake from the Cheesecake Factory. We found out where the nearest one was, and headed to it! We took the Metro to Friendship Heights and spent some time checking things out before taking to bus home. That was one packed bus, and we had to stop about every block which made for nearly a 50 minute bus ride back to Georgetown. We got back and took a well-deserved nap before going out to dinner with Pat and John (the boys upstairs). Holly went home for the weekend so it was just Jenny and I. We ended up having a picnic on a street corner in Georgetown then decided to head up to Dupont and check out the Pride Parade and Festivities. The byos headed home then and Jenny and I went to explore some more nightlife in Washington D.C. for a few hours which included randomly meeting up with the guys from the British Military whom we had met the night before. We didn't figure we'd see them again, but all of the sudden they were sitting next to us.

Today has been a lounging day for the most part with nothing exciting happening. I could give you the play-by-play but that would basicaly entail writing a journal entry for class, and surfing the web. I did manage to do all of my laundry AND pick up the apartment though so we are all ready for the week.

We again are realizing how rough the next 7 weeks will be without a tv. We get bored, as we are right now. It's not that we HAVE to watch something, it's just that we have nothing else to do and we don't want to be going 24/7. Sometimes tv is good. I think we will be looking at Stoop Sales next weekend for a cheap one! Until then, we'll have to keep being nice to the guys upstairs so we can watch movies with them all night long.

For now, I leave you with a few photos from this weekend Saturday.



Mr. Bush with the guys and I


Holly and i with a couple of the British Boys


THE White House


Healy Hall on Georgetown Campus (right outside our front window)


rAnDoMnEsS! (Me, Jenny, and Holly)..you gotta have some crazy pictures once in a while!