60 Days and only 23 days left of my summer in DC!
FH has given me the best internship I could've asked for this summer. I love working with everyone and learning so much along the way. Inside and outside of the office. Semi-finals for softball are tonight and if all goes according to plan we will be playing in the championships this Thursday!
This weekend my housemates Alix, Kate, Sarah P., Sarah M. Alix's lil sister Lilly and our friend Sean headed for the beach. Orginally bound for Annapolis we ended up driving 3 extra hours towards the big beach. Ocean City is an amazing beach city with a huge boardwalk. Lots of shops, places to eat and lots of people. There's even a theme park at one end of it! A day full of sand, boogie boarding, swimming and SUN was just what I needed after a week at the office.
For dinner we went to an awesome Seafood restaurant it was a "Crab Shack". We ordered lots of crab! Snow crab, dungeness, shrimp, hush puppies, crab cakes, clams, we had the works. The table was covered with construction paper and once we got our hammers we all had fun smacking the crabs for the delicious meat inside. The sounds of banging could be heard throughout the restaurant while we ate, talked and watched 'Shark Week' on the Discovery Channel. We arrived safely back at our townhouse around 1:30am that night. Overall, it was beautiful sunny day and we took advantage of it the best way we know how...by having a BEACH DAY!
WHITE HOUSE TOUR- Friday, Aug. 1st I went on my tour around the White House. I saw all six rooms that the public gets to see. It was great! I ended up hopping in with a group where a white house employee was giving his friends a tour. I got to hear about how the house looks during Christmas (since he got to go to the x-mas party) and where the president's 24-hour kitchen cooks stay. Then at the end of the tour he asked if I wanted a tour of the West Wing! On Sunday we went on the tour but were unable to go in to the West Wing because President Bush was there. In the three years he had been working that had never happened to the employee. Usually, he said the president is traveling or spending his August month in Texas. Needless to say I will be getting my West Wing tour sometime in the upcoming weeks before I leave. Instead he took me on a tour of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building. An amazing office building housing the National Security offices, the president's speechwriter's offices and so much more. The vice president has an office in that building (and one in the west wing) and I got to go in to a conference room that the president uses to sign documents if the "Situation Room" and other rooms in the White house are occupied. The Indian Treaty Room is, also, in this building. That room is mainly used for award ceremonies.
I feel so lucky to have experienced so many great things this summer! WA DC is a wonderful place to spend a summer. It takes so many things to make a trip this amazing and this memorable. From my townhouse to my housemates, FH co-workers, family friends and relatives it could've have gone much better I don't think.
My parents are coming on the 20th- I am excited to show them all my favorite WA DC, Maryland and Virginia spots.
I even get to play tennis tomorrow and on Wednesday Kate and I are going to see Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2. That's the end of this post.
2 comments:
Hi Angela, You have great pictures to go with your fun D.C. blog...thank you for continuing to share your all-summer experiences with us...and, good luck with the baseball game tonight! :-)
Angela, I'm so jealous of your written English skills. I now realize that the entire summer, I have been reading, and listening to very poor, broken English, and it certainly hasn't helped my writing in any way haha. Thanks again for hanging out, it's been such a good vacation!
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