last day

Day 6

got ready for the day. packed everything up. did a triple look to make sure we were leaving anything behind. took a luggage down stairs to have them watch it while we killed some time. told Matt and Scott that we were going to bring them lunch. went back up to eastern market to get some pizzas from 7th hill again. walked up to the capitol where these guys work. again i ate another DELICIOUS pizza. talked and talked then we said our goodbyes. head back to the hotel got a luggage, said our goodbyes to DC and headed to the airport.

DC you were good!

next trip

NEW YORK CITY

day 5

Monday

woke up to the nice fire alarm going off. evacuated in our pjs. as were are walking down the stairs, the challenge began. who could last the longest talking in british accent. sat outside for 15 minutes waiting to come back in. headed back up to our room. got ready for the day. headed down to the metro. my card decided to stop working. talked to a worker about in a normal voice. boom im out of the competition. walked down to the metro laughing listening to ashley and shelbs talking in an english accent. headed to some store to get some souvenirs. went back to the air and space museum to look at the air side. pretty rad. walked through some old and new planes. left the museum. headed out to the mall to take our touristy pictures with our cheesy touristy shirts. Headed back to the hotel to take a nap before heading to dinner in Georgetown. Ashley was out of the competition. Shelbie won. done napping. headed to Georgetown. stopped at Baked and Wired. got Shelbie her cupcake. i got a half a dozen to take home. went back to Lululemon to pick up my necklace i left there saturday. Ate dinner at Serendipity. got the BEST sandwich ever. 6th sandwich of the trip. got the on and only froooozen hot chocolate. STUFFED. walked back to out hotel to pack and get ready to head home the next day.

continue..

DAY FOUR
we slept in a little bit. got up. the usual routine. got in our sunday gear and head to church. got on the metro. metro decided to stop in the middle of the tunnel for 30 minutes. missed sacrament meeting. got off our stop. Matt Holton told us to go up a hill and the church was on the left. got up to the street, looked down all four streets, no hill in site. thank goodness there was a man in a nice white shirt. followed him. met up with matt and went to sunday school. saw people that knew. left church and back to the metro. said our goodbyes to matt. headed to Arlington cemetery. got to Arlington. never have i seen so many head stones. walked up to see where John F. Kennedy Jr. was buried. headed further up to see where the Unknown Soldiers are buried. watched the changing of the guard. did you know that they are there 24/7, even during a blizzard! walked around the cemetery. got back on the metro. made a stop at Trader Joe's again. loaded up on some more sweet food. to this day im still eating the food. back on the metro. headed to eastern market for some pizza at 7th hill. ordered a beyond delicious pizza! i love real italian style pizza. went next store to eat some fabulous gelato. went back to our hotel and just chilled for the rest of the day. and decided to make a challenge for monday. see who could last the longest talking in a british accent. the winner gets a cupcake at Baked and Wired.

to look back at day 1, day 2 and day 3

day 3

slept in. got ready. Georgetown here we come. got on the metro. walked for about 15 minutes to G-Town. love GT. brick and cobble is everywhere. buildings, streets, sidewalks. everywhere. i want to live in Georgetown. we shopped and i spent all my money at H&M. Anthropologie. J.crew. Urban Outfitters. Lululemon (my new favorite store). Got lunch at Dean and Deluca. my 5th sandwich of the trip. Milkshakes at Godiva. yumminess. looked at getting cupcakes at Georgetown cupcakes. line out the door. forget that. instead. cupcakes at Baked and Wired. soooo good. soooo good. walked to Trader Joes. got more yumminess. made a new friend at Trader. he said i had a really good vibe. he really loved my bracelets. i gave him one. in return. a discount on my total. TJ needs to come to Salt Lake. walked back to the metro and to our hotel. dropped off all our stuff. while shopping found out that matt couldnt come to the baseball game with us. work called him in. went to the game by ourselves. missed the first 5 innings. sat at the very top on the right outfield of the stadium. sang take me out to the ball game. took a picture of an empty seat. sent it to scott saying this was his seat. tried to make him feel by. by the way. you owe us. left the game at the middle of the 9th inning. went back to the hotel and just ate our food we got at TJ. watched Miss Congeniality. went to bed.

day 2

wake up early again to head to Washington Monument. Why? because they give all their tickets at 8:30am.  we wait in the head for about an hour. the start of another sweat session. finally the line starts to move and we get our tickets for 11:30am. decided to finish looking at the mall. start walking and see people taking a picture of something. look to my left. oh theirs the White House. lets go take a picture. we do. Nope i dont see the president. head back to the mall. first we see World War II monument. Love learning about WWII. Love. walked around and take some pictures. we leave. see some construction going on. realized it was the reflecting pond. :( their was no pond. sad. continue walking while we are sweating from absolute every pore on our bodies. we discuss that we are sweating in crease that we have never sweat before. i will let your imagination work there. reach the Lincoln memorial. decided to switch up the picture taking and decide jumping picture. about 15 later. got an awesome jumping picture. walked up the stairs to greet good ole Ab. took another picture. turned around and saw an awesome potential picture of the mall. took it. too bad the pond is missing. again you can let your imagination do its work and picture it there. we say our goodbyes to Ab and headed to the Korean War memorial. pretty cool. Decided to go finish the other side of air and space museum until we were running out of time till we had to go to Washington Memorial. decided just to go into a museum to cool of and get cold water for a few minutes before going to the W.M. we headed to big metal stick. we go up an elevator and got amazing views of the District. headed down the elevator only to see some cool stone plaques from every state. After W.M. we were going to head to Trader Joes to get some groceries then to lunch at 7th Hill. until Matt got us on the v.i.p. list to go through the Holocaust museum. So we head to the Holocaust museum on a beyond empty stomach. the coolest most depressing 2 hours ever. but so cool. i loved it. my favorite museum. after we decide to forget Trader joes and head straight to 7th Hill pizza. we get there. CLOSED. what. instead we get Potbellys sandwiches again. my 3rd sandwich of the trip. to back to our hotel to cool off and take a nap. wait till Matt gets off work. Meet Matt at Chinatown. Matt only because Scott ditched us for Newport and his family. walked around Chi town. ate at Clydes. 4th sandwich of the trip. walked around some more. got some Fro-yo. yummy. walked to the Capitol and just chilled around. i felt like a local. said goodbye to Matt and went back to the hotel for the night.

District of Columbia

 DAY 1

picked up Shelbs and Ash. Headed to the airport where Shelbs was asked my sercurity and the checkin if she was a minor. me laughing while saying "ahhh you look like a minor." passing through security Shelbs got extra screening through her purse because of her keychain pocket knife. bad Shelbie. Sat down our stuff and whipped out uno to make the time go by a little faster while waiting for our flight. boarded our flight. first stop Denver. landed and rushed to our next flight. next stop DC! landed, grabbed our luggage and headed for the metro then to our hotel. unpacked and went to bed. woke up early, showered and headed to the White House for the tour. waited for 30 minutes in the ultimate humidity. went through two screenings and finally i was in the White House. Went through the ballroom, green room, blue room, red room and more, pretty much the east wing. got yelled at by security to not touch the wall while i was in the red room. i touched the wall in the red room. its fabric with nothing behind it. went to corner bakery for breakfast. ate my first sandwich of many on the trip. went back to the hotel for a quick nap. woke up and headed to the capitol building to get a tour from Scott. went through parts of the capitol that a normal tour you wouldnt get to do. saw where President Washington would have been buried, yes it was going to be in the capitol. walked the path where every president was walked to give the address they give every January. met up with Matt and went out to get some lunch at Union Station. Ate my second sandwich at Potbellys. so good. said our goodbyes. boarded the metro to the smithsonians. walked through American History museum. my favorite the 1st Ladys dresses. went back out into the blazing heat with dreadful humidity. walked over to the air and space museum. looked at the space side of the museum then hoped back on the metro to head to Eastern Market to get some fresh fruit and bagels. went back to the hotel and stayed in for the night.