I arrived at MSP at 5:10am on Friday, June 19. My dad was kind enough to drive me up from our house to the airport at that very early hour. I got my luggage and headed for the Midwest Airline desk. The line took longer than expected, but I eventually learned that this was because the plane to Washington was canceled. This actually was a blessing in disguise. The Midwest employees booked me a flight on the non-stop Northwest/Delta flight to Washington, which left at 7:15. My flight originally was suppose to have a layover in Milwaukee and the Mitchell airport has no food or decent things to do, so it would have been extremely boring. The nonstop flight was a very nice surprise. I got into Washington at 10:20, 20 minutes earlier than expected.
National airport (actually Reagan National Airport, but I don’t like the fact that it’s named after the former president who fired the air-traffic controllers) was pretty old, but the thousands of photos of the Obama family made a good democrat like me pretty happy. I walked to the luggage carousel to pick up my backpack. My buddy, Will Lessard, came to pick me up at the airport. Will and I met during my study abroad program in Santiago, Chile. It was great to see him again. We drove from National to his friend Kay’s house, which was just north of the Capitol building. Will parked there and we took the X2 bus to Union Station and made our way over the Capitol.
We were going to go through the new multi-million dollar capitol visitor’s center, but the line was a little long, so we decided instead to go over to the Supreme Court building to take a tour. I have never toured the Supreme Court building, so I was pretty excited. We did out own little tour and watched a short video on the court, which did not really teach me anything, but was fun nonetheless. I walked by a courtyard and saw Justice Stephen Breyer eating lunch with some young people, probably talking about some really cool judicial ruling or case. I was quite jealous and felt a little like a stalker. We sat through a lecture in the actual Supreme Court chambers, which was pretty interesting.
After the Supreme Court, Will and I went to Union Station to eat lunch. Will got Greek food and I got pizza. It was pretty good and after the food we went to the Smithsonian Natural History Museum. I haven’t been to this Smithsonian. They had a great exhibit on the ocean and we went to see the Hope Diamond. The Diamond was pretty, but to be totally honest, I thought it was too big and would not complement very many women very well. I think that women should stick with smaller diamonds because they are more classy and of course less expensive.
We went to the Washington Monument, but the tickets to go to the top for the day were sold out. So Will and I just chilled on the grass, and Will climbed a tree with some kids. Dan came after he was done with work to meet us. We headed back to Roslyn, Virginia – just across the Potomac from Georgetown. Will left us to meet up with his friend Kay, and Dan and I ate dinner at Chipolte. Dan took this time to comment on all the news tickers to me. The headlines of the day included the Iranian Election protests, Roland Burris’ perjury charges, and Secretary Hillary Clinton’s broken elbow. After dinner, we walked back to Dan’s place about a block away from Georgetown University. I met his roommates. Dan’s apartment was really pretty nice. He has a room to himself with two bunk beds, so I had a nice place to sleep. Dan had been out the night before and not gotten very much sleep and since I was packing the night before I left, I hadn’t got much sleep either. We both wanted to meet up with Will again later to go to the bars on M street, but were really tired, so we took naps and left the apartment around 10pm to go out and meet Will. I felt a lot like a Chilean.
We ended up meeting Will’s friend Kay and some of her friends. We went to three bars before finding the Guard a bar in Georgetown that didn’t have a cover and had really good music and a good atmosphere. Dan and I ended up closing the bar at 3am, and slowly made our way back to his apartment. We got back to his apartment around 4:30 and ended up chatting awhile before falling asleep. It was a pretty good time. It was great to see Will and meet his friends and of course Dan was a ton of fun as always.
Monday, June 22, 2009
Washington, DC - DAY 1
I arrived at MSP at 5:10am on Friday, June 19. My dad was kind enough to drive me up from our house to the airport at that very early hour. I got my luggage and headed for the Midwest Airline desk. The line took longer than expected, but I eventually learned that this was because the plane to Washington was canceled. This actually was a blessing in disguise. The Midwest employees booked me a flight on the non-stop Northwest/Delta flight to Washington, which left at 7:15. My flight originally was suppose to have a layover in Milwaukee and the Mitchell airport has no food or decent things to do, so it would have been extremely boring. The nonstop flight was a very nice surprise. I got into Washington at 10:20, 20 minutes earlier than expected.
National airport (actually Reagan National Airport, but I don’t like the fact that it’s named after the former president who fired the air-traffic controllers) was pretty old, but the thousands of photos of the Obama family made a good democrat like me pretty happy. I walked to the luggage carousel to pick up my backpack. My buddy, Will Lessard, came to pick me up at the airport. Will and I met during my study abroad program in Santiago, Chile. It was great to see him again. We drove from National to his friend Kay’s house, which was just north of the Capitol building. Will parked there and we took the X2 bus to Union Station and made our way over the Capitol.
We were going to go through the new multi-million dollar capitol visitor’s center, but the line was a little long, so we decided instead to go over to the Supreme Court building to take a tour. I have never toured the Supreme Court building, so I was pretty excited. We did out own little tour and watched a short video on the court, which did not really teach me anything, but was fun nonetheless. I walked by a courtyard and saw Justice Stephen Breyer eating lunch with some young people, probably talking about some really cool judicial ruling or case. I was quite jealous and felt a little like a stalker. We sat through a lecture in the actual Supreme Court chambers, which was pretty interesting.
After the Supreme Court, Will and I went to Union Station to eat lunch. Will got Greek food and I got pizza. It was pretty good and after the food we went to the Smithsonian Natural History Museum. I haven’t been to this Smithsonian. They had a great exhibit on the ocean and we went to see the Hope Diamond. The Diamond was pretty, but to be totally honest, I thought it was too big and would not complement very many women very well. I think that women should stick with smaller diamonds because they are more classy and of course less expensive.
We went to the Washington Monument, but the tickets to go to the top for the day were sold out. So Will and I just chilled on the grass, and Will climbed a tree with some kids. Dan came after he was done with work to meet us. We headed back to Roslyn, Virginia – just across the Potomac from Georgetown. Will left us to meet up with his friend Kay, and Dan and I ate dinner at Chipolte. Dan took this time to comment on all the news tickers to me. The headlines of the day included the Iranian Election protests, Roland Burris’ perjury charges, and Secretary Hillary Clinton’s broken elbow. After dinner, we walked back to Dan’s place about a block away from Georgetown University. I met his roommates. Dan’s apartment was really pretty nice. He has a room to himself with two bunk beds, so I had a nice place to sleep. Dan had been out the night before and not gotten very much sleep and since I was packing the night before I left, I hadn’t got much sleep either. We both wanted to meet up with Will again later to go to the bars on M street, but were really tired, so we took naps and left the apartment around 10pm to go out and meet Will. I felt a lot like a Chilean.
We ended up meeting Will’s friend Kay and some of her friends. We went to three bars before finding the Guard a bar in Georgetown that didn’t have a cover and had really good music and a good atmosphere. Dan and I ended up closing the bar at 3am, and slowly made our way back to his apartment. We got back to his apartment around 4:30 and ended up chatting awhile before falling asleep. It was a pretty good time. It was great to see Will and meet his friends and of course Dan was a ton of fun as always.
National airport (actually Reagan National Airport, but I don’t like the fact that it’s named after the former president who fired the air-traffic controllers) was pretty old, but the thousands of photos of the Obama family made a good democrat like me pretty happy. I walked to the luggage carousel to pick up my backpack. My buddy, Will Lessard, came to pick me up at the airport. Will and I met during my study abroad program in Santiago, Chile. It was great to see him again. We drove from National to his friend Kay’s house, which was just north of the Capitol building. Will parked there and we took the X2 bus to Union Station and made our way over the Capitol.
We were going to go through the new multi-million dollar capitol visitor’s center, but the line was a little long, so we decided instead to go over to the Supreme Court building to take a tour. I have never toured the Supreme Court building, so I was pretty excited. We did out own little tour and watched a short video on the court, which did not really teach me anything, but was fun nonetheless. I walked by a courtyard and saw Justice Stephen Breyer eating lunch with some young people, probably talking about some really cool judicial ruling or case. I was quite jealous and felt a little like a stalker. We sat through a lecture in the actual Supreme Court chambers, which was pretty interesting.
After the Supreme Court, Will and I went to Union Station to eat lunch. Will got Greek food and I got pizza. It was pretty good and after the food we went to the Smithsonian Natural History Museum. I haven’t been to this Smithsonian. They had a great exhibit on the ocean and we went to see the Hope Diamond. The Diamond was pretty, but to be totally honest, I thought it was too big and would not complement very many women very well. I think that women should stick with smaller diamonds because they are more classy and of course less expensive.
We went to the Washington Monument, but the tickets to go to the top for the day were sold out. So Will and I just chilled on the grass, and Will climbed a tree with some kids. Dan came after he was done with work to meet us. We headed back to Roslyn, Virginia – just across the Potomac from Georgetown. Will left us to meet up with his friend Kay, and Dan and I ate dinner at Chipolte. Dan took this time to comment on all the news tickers to me. The headlines of the day included the Iranian Election protests, Roland Burris’ perjury charges, and Secretary Hillary Clinton’s broken elbow. After dinner, we walked back to Dan’s place about a block away from Georgetown University. I met his roommates. Dan’s apartment was really pretty nice. He has a room to himself with two bunk beds, so I had a nice place to sleep. Dan had been out the night before and not gotten very much sleep and since I was packing the night before I left, I hadn’t got much sleep either. We both wanted to meet up with Will again later to go to the bars on M street, but were really tired, so we took naps and left the apartment around 10pm to go out and meet Will. I felt a lot like a Chilean.
We ended up meeting Will’s friend Kay and some of her friends. We went to three bars before finding the Guard a bar in Georgetown that didn’t have a cover and had really good music and a good atmosphere. Dan and I ended up closing the bar at 3am, and slowly made our way back to his apartment. We got back to his apartment around 4:30 and ended up chatting awhile before falling asleep. It was a pretty good time. It was great to see Will and meet his friends and of course Dan was a ton of fun as always.
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