Washington DC was awesome! Loved it! And after being there, i thought, wow i could live here. Anyways, so here is the low down on what we did:
Flew in on Thursday night...
Our first Metro ride :)
On Friday Aaron had to work, so he put on a scavenger hunt for Mary and i, it was so much fun! As much as we wish we could have been hanging out with Aaron, it was like we still got to with all his little clues. Before we went on our scavenger hunt we took a tour of the Treasurey, it's an amazing building. And we also walked around and found the white house which was right next door...
Okay so back to the scavenger hunt, he gave us our first clue, which led us to the Newsuem, which is a musuem full of newspapers of top headlines everywhere, we didn't end up actually going inside but, the outside had all the states and their major newspaper and that days paper.
Mary found the first clue, behind the Arizona newspaper (Aaron is from Arizona)
Our next clue led us to the Hope Diamond, which was in the Natural History Musuem. I had never heard of it, but it was so cool! i loved learning about the history of this beautiful, HUGE diamond!
Mary and i throwing down that we found the next clue (3rd one)
Our next clue led us to the Air and Space Musuem, specifically to the Wright Brothers exhibit.
Along the way to the next clue we walked by the capital and it was just so pretty!
Our next clue led us to the first American Flag, it was really cool to see. Made me feel very patriotic
Okay so this clue was really hard for us. It led us to the Vietnam Memorial Wall, but it was dark by the time we got there so it made finding our little envelope very hard. We ended up walking the wall like 3 times and mary had to take like 30 pictures of different parts of the wall just to get light from her flash on her phone to be able to find our clue...haha the funny part was that it also took so long because on the outside of the envelope it was addressed to Major White and General Huish, which i didnt notice the first couple times we walked by! haha!
My favorite clue was this one that we found at the Vietnam Memorial because inside all it had was a five dollar bill which ended up being a 'map' which led us to the lincoln memorial...very clever.
Later that night we ended up meeting up with his parents, who were also in town that weekend, and his sister and her boyfriend to a really yummy italian resturant.
Saturday morning and afternoon we spent on Mount Vernon which was also very cool. I learned a lot about President Washington.
This is us chilling with the Washingtons. (Aaron's sister, Leanne, is next to me and his dad is on the far right)
Out in front of his house (Aaron's mom is on the far right)
After Mount Vernon we went to Ray's Hell Burger which is apparently where Obama took the Russian President and Obama is a frequent eater there, it was sooo good though. The patty was probably 2 inches thick though and i couldnt even fit my mouth around it, i had to cut in in half!
And after that we went back to the Barlow Center to take a little afternoon nap while being induced by our food comas.
That night we went out to a cupcake shop and it was sooo good! i got a lemon raspberry cupcake, yum!
And after that we went to a random mexican resturant where we sang karoke with the other students at the Barlow Center which was a blast and fun to see the other students.
Sunday we went to Aaron's church which was great to be able to see the ward and all the other people that lived there, it was a full on single's ward too, which was another little plus with maybe moving there after graduation?!
After church and dinner we went to a couple more memorials, we went to the Pentagon memorial which i really liked. and we went to the Airforce Memorial which was also really cool.
Anyways, that night we went to the capital to hang out and we all got matching "I <3 DC" shirts. And it was a jerusalem thing to take jumping pictures so we had to get one of those in! While we were there i met up with Molly, which was soo great to see her because it had been way to long, and i miss her not being in Provo!
cute molly :)
jumping picture!
cheesey picture, showing off our sweet shirts!
It was a great trip! Great to see Aaron. Great to see DC. Great to get out of Provo and it's coldness. Great to get a break from school.
And let's just say, DC is a definite possibility for my future internship, if it's possible?! :)
Because i LOVED it!
