Anna's Weekend Trip

Anna and I became friends soon after we put a project together for Personal Progress senior year (I cut it reallll close haha). Now that I think about it, we bonded over cupcakes. And this last weekend, we went on a mission to get Georgetown Cupcakes. How poetic! ...anyways...Anna and I ended up going to BYU and we both ended up living in Wyview, which I think was divine intervention in a way, because Anna and I continued to get closer. Freshman year, we freaked out her roommates with scary movie nights in her living room. We went to the Cannon Center with Annie every Monday morning for breakfast bright and early where those two would always get a scone and I would always get chocolate milk (one of the main things I miss about BYU=the Creamery chocolate milk. holy crap). Sophomore year, we accidentally lived across the street from each other, again, and so we continued scary movies and experiencing the BYU experience to experience. Junior year, we lived more than two blocks away from each other, but distance made the friendship stronger and we spent so much time together that year. Senior year, she was partially in Sandy, which meant dinner on Sunday nights at the Peterson's. I love the Petersons! Ok ok this is mushy memories, but I wanted to prove how much I have loved being Anna's friend!! We constantly are saying: "Annnd that's why we are friends." We are also constantly saying, "Why did we wait until senior year to become friends?" The world may never know. But at least we are friends, now, because we can do fun things like visit each other in our respective, cool cities (we would still visit each other even if we lived in lame cities, but living in cool cities never hurt anyone).

Anna came to visit me this last, long weekend. Friday night, we went to Nandos for dinner and drove around Old Town Alexandria. 

Saturday, we went into the District and had a museum-ing day: American History, Holocaust, and National Portrait Gallery. We had dinner in China Town at a yummy Thai place on H and 6th.

view down Pennsylvania to the Capitol

It's Abe, honest.

my dinner was in a pineapple!

Sunday, we went to the Archives, National Art Gallery, and Natural History Museum. The Archives are releasing lots of cool stuff that was confidential about the Cold War and things from the 60s on. The Art Gallery is currently borrowing Michelangelo's David-Apollo and they have a new Pre-Raphaelite section. They also have a cool exhibit right now at the Natural History about forensics. They found a burial site from early colonists in Virginia and they are using forensic science to date and even possibly name some of the people from that site. You don't get that on the west coast.

NatGal

David-Apollo

That night, we went to the Kennedy Center for the free concert at 6. The University of Michigan School of Music brought some of their talent and I loved the saxophone sextet the most. Afterwards, we ate at Circa in Foggy Bottom. We were all dressed up from it being Sunday and from going to the concert, so it was our fancy dinner night.

Monday's agenda:

• the reading room of the Library of Congress is open on President's Day, so we got to see that. That was SO COOL. I was geekin out, you guys. I was especially excited when they told me it is technically a public library, so I could get a pass to go there if I wanted to look at the books. I thought it was special people only! Uh, duh, count me in!

shhh secret passage

my favorite building

the card cataloging room was open, too!

millions of books!

some of the many stacks

• Arlington Cemetery

I wouldn't mind being a Kennedy if it meant being buried in a place with a view like this! So beautiful!

• tour of the Capitol

• walked around the White House

Eisenhower Executive Building

Smithsonian's Renwick Gallery

• walked around George Washington U (I'm trying to convince Anna to move here and go to school around here)
• walked down Georgetown/M Street, then waited in line for Georgetown Cupcakes (mostly for Libby--we were afraid of certain death if Anna didn't get one in Libby's honor)

• walked around the Monuments on the Mall
• ordered Chinese food and watched "Remember the Titans," since I live down the street from TC Williams HS

So, I think this prank would be so hilarious because I just don't understand Nicholas Cage. I don't understand the appeal and I just don't understand him. But I thought of the picture above when I took this picture at the LOC:

Nicholas Cage is everywhereeee

So, basically, Anna and I walked and dined our way through the District, which means it was one heckuva weekend, if you ask me.