I am counting the days now til I leave the island for the summer. Only 25 more days and only 14 more days of work! I am going to Atlanta this coming weekend (Columbus Day) to visit Kristin and Beth. Lynn is flying from Syracuse too, I'm so exciting for an escape. I also went to Washington D.C. to visit Angie with Joe and Erica 2 weeks ago, and I plan on going up to Boston 2 days before I leave the island for some last minute shopping and to see Serina off.

So let me talk about D.C.. I've never been to our nation's capital, mostly because my 8th grade class had to be different and decide to go to Boston for our class trip instead of going to D.C. like most classes before us. We were a difficult group to deal with. Anyways, leaving the island is such a pain the ass, especially to try and fly somewhere. I had to take a bust to the ferry, ferry to another bus, bus to Logan Airport, then once in Baltimore we had to take a train to D.C. Needless to say it was a long day.
Thursday after we got there and Angie met us, we went out to eat at a place called the Red something or other because they had $10 pitchers of margarittas. We had 2 pitchers between the four of us and some eats, then vertured off to stumble around the city a bit at night. Once the pitchers kicked in it turned into a stumble for a bathroom. Since Angie works for a senator she was able to sneak us into the Senate building (I think that's what it was). We eventually found our way home and to bed.
Friday Angie had to work so Erica, Joe and I slept in then met her for a lunch date. I think the place was called Capital City Brewery or something. After lunch Angie went back to work and the 3 of us went to the International Spy museum, which I had never heard of, but Erica saw it on Perfect Proposals and wanted to go. It was a lot bigger than I thought and I got to pretend to have a cover and be a spy, so if anyone asks, my name is Angela Fallcone and I was born in Mirano, Italy. I am traveling to Hanoi, Vietnam on business for 30 days because I am a travel agent, haha. After then museum we went to Angie's and got to meet her boy toy Robert. We ordered some pizza and let Erica's beer get warm so she could drink it. We went to this bar in Dupont Circle called The Front Page. I had gotten so use to not being able to smoke in bars that it was really weird to see people walking around with cigarettes... it almost made me want one, lol.
Saturday the weather wasn't spectacular so we decided to go see the monuments. Since I'd never been there it was really interesting. We went to the World War II Memorial, which is new to "The Mall" as they call it. It was nice but it made me get choked up because there were all these vets getting their pictures taken with the quotes on the stone, and at the stones of the different states there were lots of pictures, articles and memorabilia of people who served and died in and after the war. The Vietnam memorial was also a tear jerker... I'm such a sap. We went up to Georgetown to shop a bit and ate up there too. I think we were all a little pooped from our day so we went back to Angie's and watched some T.V.
Sunday was our last day visiting so we went to a sandwich place called Cosi around Dupont Circle. The place was amazing, I want them to build one in Geneva, lol. Right next to Ciccinos :) After lunch we went to a cute little book store then went people watching at the Circle. We decided it was time to spend more money and went to H&M for the rest of the afternoon, literally, lol. We had to leave cause the store was closing. I suggested that we go to a restaurant we saw on Friday that I had been to in Atlanta and it was a big hit. So now Angie is hooked on their hummus dish. After dinner we headed back to Angie's to watch the Emmy's and drink a bit. But all the grocery stores and liquor stores were closed... so we had a sober Emmy party, lol.
Monday we just packed up and I went through the whole traveling fiasco again, lol. It was a really fun trip and I'm so glad I got to see Angie, Erica and Joe all together. I miss all of us being able to hang out. Damn growing up and moving on business... it's overrated.
Well I'm busy at work, and by busy I mean bidding on ebay for Felicity DVDs, so I should go! You'll hear from me soon...