Weekend Update

Weekend Update: (Yes, posted during a weekend, after the one I wrote about. fail)

Danielle came to visit me, I crossed several things off my to do list, and we celebrated Danielle passing the bar!

Thursday: a hilarious and delicious dinner with my friend Brad and his college friends. lots of laughing, great sangria and DELICIOUS pizza at Pizzeria Paradiso in DuPont Circle. One of the most fun nights I have had in a while.

Friday: Up early to get tickets to the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, then back to get dressed and ready. Went to National Archives, which were really cool but we waited in line for almost an hour and then had to rush around before going to BOE. BOE was cool to see, but I am not sure it was worth getting up so early and having to cut our trip to the Archives short. We went home, napped and went to Shake Shack for dinner (great burgers, but I still like 5 guys better). Then we met Danielle's friend at Front Page in DuPont, then moved to Dirty Martini (worst and most expensive long island ever, fail) and met up with my friend Jonah at another bar in Dupont for a little bit.

Saturday: I had trouble getting out of bed, but we dragged ourselves out into the cloudy day to tour Annapolis. We at at a yummy seafood restaurant (crab dip, crab balls and turkey clubs, yum) and got a private tour of the Naval Academy and downtown Annapolis courtesy of my friend Chris. We walked around, saw a crazy, drunken croquet event that is a social event of frat-tastic proportions (lots of crazy outfits). Saturday night we crashed, couldn't even get up to get dinner, ended up ordering pizza from Pizza Hut and going to sleep. Oops

Sunday: Danielle dragged me out of bed and we assembled ourselves to go to the American History museum (after I had us waiting in the line for the National Art Gallery for almost 30 minutes before I realized we were in the wrong place-epic fail). We hit the highlights of American History and then rented bikes for the trek back to my hotel. Then I went to yoga while Danielle napped, and we hopped back on our bikes and rode down for our self-guided biking night  tour of the monuments. Capital Bike Share is great, except you can only ride for 30 minutes before they charge you extra $$. so we rode like maniacs from one monument to another and frantically searched for a docking station only to take them out 10 seconds later...annoying. Then we ate cereal for dinner, watched tv and went to bed. I couldn't sleep, I had a strange dream about my dog, Kellie, who died 5 years ago and it was just a wonky night. I have a lot on my mind, and now I am thrust into another work week.