In case you hadn't heard, I made a trip to the Washington, D.C. area last week. I was going up there for a bunch of work testing that I needed to do, and that part of the trip was both stressful and kind of boring, so we're putting it in the past and not talking about it anymore. Yay!
But the trip was not a total bummer. Far from in fact. This was due to three things, mainly. 1.) Panamanian Pal decided to make a trip of it too and came up to hang out with me, 2.) My dad decided that DC is considerably closer to Vermont than Key West is and decided to make a trip of it, and 3.) I have awesome friends who live in the Washington, D.C. area and was able to see quite a few of them!
Do you want the blow by blow? No, you don't, BUT THAT'S NOT GOING TO STOP ME! MWAAA HA HA HA! Ha.
Tuesday, 1 November: Arrive at Washington Dulles airport after a perfectly incident free pair of flights around five. Have easiest baggage claim ever (seriously, as I was walking toward the baggage spinny thing (I know there's a better name for it) my bag and I hit the same spot on the spinny thing AT THE SAME TIME!). Rent a car (the guy renting me the car said that I was his favorite customer all day and gave me a fancy Volvo with heated seats. It was genius.) Check into hotel, unpack a little, refresh a little, drive to Chili's and have a delightful dinner with friends! Go back to the hotel, fall asleep.
Wednesday, 2 November: Have Panamanian Pal (who got in late on Tuesday) drop me off for day one of tests. Day one of tests. Dinner at a yummy Vietnamese place with Tim, then hanging out with Listy McListerson, Beans, and Mel.
Thursday, 3 November: More testing. Dinner at home with the Salas family. Much cheek munching of their adorably cute baby boy.
Friday, 4 November: Visiting our office, yummy Japanese lunch with office friends, hanging out with former neighbor/branch president (he's still coworker/friend) and family. Too much fun with a 4-year-old. Yummy Indian dinner.
Saturday, 5 November: Fancy brunch (Okay, this deserves an aside. We went to this place called Blue Duck Tavern in the city, and it was AMAZINGLY delicious. The dish that was probably the highlight was a smoked sturgeon rilette -- kind of like a potato, eel, pudding consistency -- that was just exploding with flavor. Paired with a crispy toasted bread and just... wow. SO delicious. There were also lemon ricotta soufle pancakes, eggs benedict with pheasant, some really really tasty beets, cheese cake stuffed figs, oh, and this heavenly vanilla honey ice cream. Everything was wonderful. And even better we were sitting right next to the kitchen area which was open to the seating area and it was hugely fun to watch everything being prepared. Loved it).
Then meet up with Dad and Vermont Lady and get lost a couple of times while walking around, visit the Vietnam memorial and the Lincoln memorial and the Washington memorial, have lovely low key late lunch/early dinner at a chinese/asian place.
Sunday, 6 November: Sleep in, go to late breakfast, hang out and talk with Panamanian Pal, catch a place back home, getting delayed an hour in Atlanta because the plane had to turn around and drop off a drunk lady, awesome. Go home and go to bed.
And that, readers, was my penultimate trip of 2011. I certainly have been around this year, for reals. I'd like to hope that next year will be quieter, but it probably won't. Well, no it definitely won't. But, that's kind of how I like it.
note: you may have noticed that there are no pictures in this post. That is because I didn't take any. I think PP may have taken maybe five, but he'll probably not get them off his camera for another year or so, so I wouldn't hold my breath on seeing them any time soon.
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