Man. What a weekend.
I am back on the blog today after spending the Memorial Day
weekend celebrating our 2nd Anniversary in DC with Erin. We had a
blast and got to experience every single thing we both desired. The highlights…
Starting on Friday evening we went to the Celtic Woman concert with my parents which was fantastic. They put on an incredibly entertaining performance full of songs and dance including some amazing instrument interludes. I love the whole Celtic culture and really find it fascinating.
We then left Saturday morning early up for DC. We decided to
spend Saturday exploring the surrounding areas and spending the full day Sunday
in the city. So since we couldn't check into our hotel until the afternoon (and
made it to DC in good time) we spent the morning exploring NOVA and Erin gave
me a tour of the area she lived in when she lived up there. It was fun. Got to
see her old house, school and her Dad’s golf course. After that…. It was my
turn to pick what we did. It just so happened that the Mid-Atlantic Crossfit
Regionals event was being held at the Patriot center at GMU. I COULD NOT let
this opportunity pass by. So Erin gracious came with me because she knew how
much this meant to me. It was so sick! We explored the vendors, got free stuff
and eventually made our way into the event and watched about 5 heats of both
men and women. Even Erin started asking questions and cheering! Totally worth
it. We then spent the evening in Tyson's Corner and shopped for a bit and Erin
picked the grossest Mexican place ever. Epic dinner fail.
Sunday we got up and had the free shuttle service at the
hotel take us to the metro station. The driver of the shuttle was a Kenyan
native and we had some great conversations with him about Kenya and about our
good friend Lemiso from triple r. We went straight to the zoo Sunday morning
and it was great! Got to see the pandas in full action eating and climbing
around. Ran into a good friend from high school at the zoo which was a pleasant
surprise. We got to see the elephants and the lions which were sweet. The “lioness”
or Nala as I called her had 2 cubs that were running around wrestling with
each other which was really cool. The “papa lion” or Simba as I called him was
freaking awesome. At one point the dude stood up and let out the most legit roar
ive ever heard. #awesome
We then just explored the rest of the zoo and made secretly
made fun of the other tourists that made us laugh. You see some characters in
DC. Then we ended up eating lunch at the coolest place ever. Don’t even remember
what it was called but it was a café/restaurant that was all open to the
outside and served an eclectic array of brunch/lunch items. We forgot it was
Sunday so we were stoked to see breakfast still being served.
Then we decided to hit the mall area and do the whole
monument thing and walk around to see the sights. It was pretty cool being
there for memorial day weekend because they had a bunch of events and concerts
and stuff around. The coolest thing we got to experience was “Rolling Thunder”.
Basically its 1.5 millions motorcyclists from around the US who ascend on DC
for a ride to the Capitol. Literally the police shut down I-495 and people
lined the exits and over passes waving and cheering the riders on. It took them
from 9am to 4pm to get all the bikes through the loop. It was freaking epic.
From Vienna to the Capitol Building around the National Mall to the Lincoln
Memorial the roads were shut down and 9 hours of continuous motorcycles. We
spent some time people watching at the Washington Monument which is always fun
in DC. After a brief annoyance of having to wait 45 minutes at the metro
station waiting for our shuttle… we finished off the evening eating dinner then hitting the hot tub and pool in the
hotel.
We slowly got up Monday and hit the road stopping in Short Pump along the way. Before even getting home we stopped at a good friends house for a little pool party/cook out for her birthday which was actually kind of nice. After driving for 5 hours jumping in a nice chilly pool on a hot sunny day was totally refreshing. We hit the grocery store on the way home and FINALLY made it back and got to relax.
All-in-all it was a great weekend and being able to spend a
fun stress-free weekend without any real plans holding us to a set schedule was
totally refreshing. Albeit we totally missed Church on Sunday and all our
friends.
Now its back to the grind. All though SOL’s are over for
Erin which is fantastic. If you’re not married to a teacher you have no idea
how wonderful it is when SOL’s are over!
Weekend = Success.
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