Jaren's best friend Greg Warby came out for a visit last week. We ran all around the city seeing the museums, Arlington, the Capitol, Potbellies, Good Stuff, Oriole's Park at Camden Yards. . .
Greg and I went to museums all day on Thursday while Jaren worked. We started in the Library of Congress which I was very impressed with. It was gorgeous! We walked by the National Archives, but decided we didn't want to wait in the probably 2 hour line in the heat to get in. So, we went and shopped at a souvenir stand instead. We saw the Natural History Museum, Museum of American History, and the Air and Space Museum. I headed home to work and Warby met Jaren at work and they picked up pizza on their way home.
Friday, we all slept in a bit. When we were awake, we got ready and went on a Capitol tour. We stood in with a group in Statutory Hall and heard the cool acoustic affects. It is still fun to see no matter how many times you go in. Jaren got to go on a dome tour where you have to walk up TONS of stairs, but get to go up on top of the dome and walk around very close to the Apotheosis of Washington and go up outside on top of the dome. See the previous post of pictures that Jaren took. I'm jealous he couldn't get me in!!
Friday night, we headed to Baltimore in the rain to see the Orioles play the Yankees. We had just gotten situated in our sweet red ponchos with umbrellas and our first round of ball park food when the announcement came over the loud speaker that the game was postponed due to the rain. We were sorta disappointed that we didn't get to see the game, but at least we got dinner out of the deal... and we get our money back, so it wasn't a complete loss.
Saturday, we saw the White House, ate at Potbellies, and walked around Arlington for a while. It got really warm in the afternoon and I actually got a little sun on my face! We wandered around the National American Indian Museum and did some more souvenir shopping before we headed home. We made our awesome fried shrimp for dinner. That night, Warby treated us to a great round of cosmic bowling. We walked in and got our shoes and while we were putting them on, we noticed something a little off.... the bowling pins were tiny! We thought that was pretty funny, and then we discovered that the bowling balls were also miniature! A lady bowling with her family on the lane next to ours overheard our surprise at the mini bowling alley and explained that it is called Duckpin Bowling and it is huge here on the East Coast. The rules are mostly the same as regular bowling except you get to bowl three times per turn. It was really really fun, but I was awful at it. We bowled until 1 am and then drove Warby to the airport and got home around 3 am. And then we slept in a LONG time the next morning. We had a blast with Warby and were sad that he left so soon!
Now we are just trying to eat all of the food we still have, but probably won't get through some of it! That's ok though, cause we are coming home in 3 days!! We have had a TON of fun out here and have seen lots of awesome things. We're glad that Jaren was able to get an internship so we could come out and have this experience, and we are also glad that it is about over. We'll try to bring some warm weather home with us!
