Washington DC, the last day

20JAN14

Today was an extremely lazy day, which was great because I basically never have them at home, so I was totally good with that.  I lazed around for awhile and eventually mobilized enough to shower.  Then Andrea made breakfast.  She better in the kitchen then me, and galley kitchens are hard to fit two people.  We had avocado egg cups


They were delicious.  And really seemed really easy.  I will definitely be trying them on my own at some point.  Or possibly with the potential eventual house guest...though not sure when that's going to happen.

Anyway, after  breakfast I gathered my stuff and we headed off to buy Andrea a bathrobe.  Essentially we just went shopping.  It was fun to roam around this nice shopping area in Friendship Heights (not that I really know where that was)   We had a snack and then it was time to make the way to the airport.

Happily I can report the way back was uneventful and I made it back home in decent time.

All in all a great weekend.

Washington DC day 2

19jan14. 

Today started off slow, even after getting of bed at 9 pm I really didn't want to get up in the morning. And the fact that I didn't hear Andrea or Franto meant I definitely had no modivation.  I eventually mobilized, showered, and had some trail mix to hold me over, and started my book.... Labor Day... So far pretty good. 

We eventually all mobilized and the plan was to get brunch.  unfortunately since it was Sunday of a long weekend the wait was a bit much. So instead we went straight to the Eden Center. 

http://www.edencenter.com

This place was totally wild. It is a Vitamamese shopping mall in the middle of Virginia.  It was mostly restaurants and we got lunch there of delicious vermicelli and spring rolls. It was awesome and very authentic.  

Then it was off to the air and space museum in Virginia. This was completely nerdy and cool. They had a plane section and space section.  Both were pretty awesome but I definitely like the space stuff better. Some of the older models it was pretty impressive that they actually worked and when you saw how close the  quarters were it was amazing people were willing to spend a week or two in them. 

Stealth fighter 

The shiney one.... Apparently just a training plane

Space shuttle discovery - fun fact it was used to bring the Hubble telescope up there and fix it.... I have a thing for the Hubble, maybe because it's old, but I think it's just really cool. 

Weird plane that can turn into a car

Floating platform - very odd 

So clearly it was pretty cool. After the museum I went with Andrea and Franto to run a few errands, I never mind a trip to trader joes :-) and then we went to dinner. 

We went to this place called Open City. It was really good. We had actually tried to go there for brunch but bailed because of the wait. So I got my eggs at the end of the day. It was delicious egg burger thing and they had sides of broccoli so mission increase fiber could continue. 

We all came back and watched the end of this French movie that was pretty funny called "the closet". Highly recommend basically because of the sheer ridiculousness of the whole thing.  

Bed was a little later.... To feel slightly less lame :-) 

Washington DC day 1

18jan14

Ok, so after a less then ideal start I made it the Baltimore airport only 2 hrs later than planed so in the grand scheme of things, not bad. I connected with Andrea and we were on out way. 

After a quick stop at her place to drop the bags, we hopped on the subway to go to Union Market. Apparently during the summer it's pretty big and has a whole farmers market with it. Now of course it was just inside and had mostly food stalls, ideal for lunch.  We dined at this noodle place and I'm pretty sure I tried trype... Wasn't a huge fan but mostly for the mental aspect. But the noodle soup definitely had some atypical animal parts. We also had sticky buns and finished it off with cupcakes ( from a different stall). It was good to get some real food since I'd had a Special K bar and a scone up to that point. 

After that is was back on the train and off to the natural history museum. The museum was packed, but really cool. I liked the gems exhibit, and the mammals exhibit.  We also saw the Hope diamond.   Not as big as you'd think, but still very cool. 

There was a number of bones and fossil exhibits as well, which was really neat. I liked the skeletons because it was interesting to see which animals were skeltally similar, but look nothing alike when cover up.   And of course the dinosaurs prompted a discussion about Jurassic Park... Like is bound to happen. We stayed at the museum pretty much until close and then redevoused with Franto to get home. 

Dinner was Indian food from near by, and then we attempted to watch a movie.  I say attempted because I kept dozing off and after half an hr we all gave up. Ironically I was in bed by 9.   Apparently I needed the extra sleep.  That's what I get for wearing myself ragged.  But sleep is awesome as well..... So it doesn't matter. 

Washington DC... Enroute

18jan14

I guess technically I'm flying to Baltimore, but that is still pretty close, and the goal of this trip is to see Andrea in DC so semantics semantics. 

Got up at 4:45, which in the grand scheme of things isn't bad. Early but not aweful. Since I get up by 5:15 for crossfit anyway.  Threw clothes on, since at that hr there was no way a morning shower was in the works.  That happened at night, after packing and driving to newton.   I was actually so out of it last night I almost passed out on the couch cause I sat down for a min. It was good I made it to newton when I did.  

Made it to Logan uneventful, and through security slowly but uneventfully.  I'm always glad I'm good at not completely spazzing out at airports. We were waiting in line and this women comes running down the speed aisle, saying she has a flight at 624... And I'm like whatever lady, go ahead... Realizing after that she may be on my flight... Yep she was.  Stupid. It's called take a breath people.  

Speaking of take a breath, I definitely spoke too soon.  Two runs of electrical issues, meant two trips back to the gate, a deplaneing, a walk through terminal C and then getting on the plane again.  Oops.   Though I did get to talk to two very interesting people who ironically were having longer travel issues then me.  So yay, meeting fun people.