My Weekends (and Posts) Seem to Be Getting Longer

Due to some interviewing in DC this past week, I ended up staying in the city from Thursday afternoon to Monday afternoon.....bookends to a fantastic and long weekend.

Thursday, Emily Goo invited Mike and I for a dinner out to Bertucci's which happens to be a legit version of Olive Garden. Little did I know what Bertucci's had in store besides the excellent food. I was introduced to a red wine that I actually liked, I'm pretty sure we met Bertucci himself, and Goo had me cracking up the entire time. I have decided she is someone who can do absolutely anything she wants and no one will ever question it, they will start to question themselves.

It's a dark picture, but Goo and I had a moment and it needed to be recorded.

She disappeared for a second and was found taking a headstand break.

Right after we discovered every member of the kitchen staff was watching her do this.

Goo was enticed to spend the night in a DoubleTree hotel room in Foggy Bottom which was conveniently discovered to be a suite. On the walk there, Goo blasted her song of the moment "Everybody's Got Their Somethin" from her laptop while we walk-bopped and got everyone around us to walk to the beat too. There is power in that song. Things I discovered about DoubleTree Hotels: if you ask them, they have warm cookies baking. We each got a free warm cookie even though Mike and I were not staying there. Unfortunately, we were too full from the 4 different desserts we split at Bertucci's to eat them, nonetheless, I am now loyal to DoubleTree for this perk. Discovering that there were two beds, naturally we had to jump and have pillow fights on them.

Goo and Mike with (I'm sure) "Everybody's Got Their Somethin" playing in the background. There is also a video of Goo and I performing an 8-count routine to the only song we played that night.

Friday I went to a Bodypump class at Rosslyn's Gold's Gym. I ended up lifting more weight because the instructor was a beast and I got excited to take the class at another location. I was also working off stress from my interviews and ended up having a really good class! It makes me excited to teach! After that, I went to see Mike and Jeff and Noah's new house near Eastern Market for the first time. The patio is one of my favorite parts and the inside looks really awesome even though there is still stuff under construction. I hung out at Goo's with Davia and Sara and was grateful for Davia to fix me pasta salad (with extra vinagerette) since I get cranky when not fed at regular intervals. Then I left to voyage across the city for my sorority Little's birthday party in Arlington.

While trying to find her apartment, I found a leashed cat! And had to take a picture.

I hung out at a bar while waiting for Jenny and the bartender handed me a shot so I would smile. Sometimes there are perks to what is known as "Resting Bitchface Syndrome". It was great to reunite with my Little and some WM people for her birthday, but I was too tired and scared to travel across the city by myself that late so I took a 20 dollar cab ride instead:/ I had to make it all the way back to Eastern Market for Jake and Marilyn's Going Away party. Boom was played, new friends were made, and it was great to reunite with old friends as well.

Saturday, Mike and I went to a movie at Courthouse Square and decided to walk our way back to the city from there. We stopped for Pinkberry sustenance in the middle of our journey of course:-) When we finally made it back to Foggy Bottom, we realized we had been walking for about two hours and that it was time to leave for dinner at Davia and Sara's already. I was so exhausted that I ended up curling up with Davia's Snuggie soon after dinner, but I was haunted by intrusive thoughts of Poker Mike aka Settlers of Catan Mike taking advantage of teams without any brick. Thank goodness Josh gave us a ride back and Mike was forced to withdraw.

Sunday, Mike, David, and I walked to our crepe place at McPherson and each had a savory crepe and a dessert crepe. For the dessert crepe, we got the most expensive crepe on the menu with ALL the berries, banana, and nutella. It was awesome. Then, because it was such a beautiful and cool day outside, we decided to see some museums and go to the botanical gardens. We went to the Freer Museum where the highlight was the Peacock room which has been transferred from London. The other highlight was the delicious water from their water fountains. The boys thought I only liked the water because it was from a shiny golden water fountain. No. It tasted better than any other water.

I am sure you can read more about this room online.

This is the only thing in the museum that I think is worth taking pictures of. There's also a nice courtyard though.

Mike took me and David to the Hirshorne too which is full of super modern-but-sometime-scary art. The best part was the blue stringy thing you could walk through. The worst part was a video of a man getting covered up with bees. There was also a scary dark room with some tiger/lion glowy eyes. I refused to go in, but apparently I made a scene, and a guard decided he would escort me in to show me it wasn't scary. Fine. (I closed my eyes pretty much the entire time).

This is the exhibit of zodiac signs outside of the Hirshorne. To me, this demonstrates one of my favorite parts of modern art viewing: watching David view modern art.

Afterwards, we headed to the botanical gardens and Mike and I took a picture in front of a cactus because there was some joke about Mike being a cactus and being a survivor and not needing water (but David was a bonsai tree?) I forget.

Mike tried to pick the biggest cactus.

The Botanical Gardens.

After the Botanical Gardens, Mike and I went to view The Last Starfighter with Dan, Josh, Steph, and crew. Steph made awesome food as always and I loved the movie. My favorite quote was "If that's what you think, then that's all you'll ever be." We also watched Community and I figured out why I was fantasy-casted as Annie.

Monday (today), I had another interview in DC and am thoroughly exhausted from the weekend. I tried to make it to Bodypump this evening since I took two days off from working out, but ended up staying home since the walking muscles in my legs are aching. I ended up passing out for about half an hour before rallying for long enough to write this post. 

This is what you get when I write a post immediately after things happen. Too many details, too many pictures. But a great weekend overall:)