Our long weekend, one we couldn't wait for, started on Friday night with a little in home activity, coffee ice cream! We needed to go grocery shopping, so we headed to the store, got what we needed for the week and got the supplies to make our own ice cream! We made the ice cream and it didn't quite become hard, but we enjoyed it! We headed to bed early that night!
On Saturday, we were up by 7 so that we could catch the metro 8 to head to the Kennedy Center for our 9:30 tour. We had an, ahum ahum, interesting tour guide to say the least. After that tour, we headed to the capitol building to get in line for security to get our tour. We were hoping for a specialized tour, since we set it up through the Colorado Representative Doug Lamborn, but we were one of about 150 in the room. It was a tour I had done before, so I wasn't too sad about it. As soon as we finished the tour of the capitol, we headed to the Washington Nationals Baseball Park. We found a deal that on July 2nd, we got to watch a double header for $2 a ticket. We got free t-shirts as we came in and fireworks afterward. As if that wasn't enough, the Washington Post had 2 for 1 foot long hotdogs and 2 for 1 drinks in souvenir cups. We had seats on the second deck, third base line and we were in the shade. Probably the best part about the whole deal! We had an absolutely wonderful time!!
Sunday, we got back to our tourist efforts and were joined by another summer associate from USGBC. We started at the Marian Koshland Science Museum. It was a very interactive museum about global warming and diseases. It was small, but very interesting. We then headed to the only presidential museum in DC, the Woodrow Wilson House. We spent over an hour walking around his house and learning all about him. I really hasn't known much about him so I really enjoyed it. After that we headed to the textile museum. We spent about 20 min. there, as it wasn't very big at all, but it had a couple cool things. As if this wasn't enough for the day, we headed to the nearest hair salon for Elena to get her haircut. We headed home for a quick dinner after that, before we went to the capitol to try to see the dress rehearsal of the capitol concert. We weren't able to see it though, as a freak storm had gone through and they closed it down for anyone that wanted in, in case of the storm going back through. We were not happy about it!
Monday we were happy not to have to get up for work, but we did get up decently early to go get a seat at the parade. We showed up 2 hours early, where we sat and read and played games on our electronics. We had some time just relaxing as the streets filled with people. The parade was nothing spectacular, mainly high school bands and some smaller versions of the Macy's Thanksgiving Parade balloons. After that, we headed home to just relax for the afternoon. We were going to head towards the mall for the fireworks, but ended up just heading to a hill near us later that night to watch the fireworks and it was a great view. The best part was being able to walk home and not have to metro anywhere. We went straight to bed from there and then to work the next day. The weekend was fun and a 4 day week was awesome!
Pictures will come tomorrow. :)
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