Weekend with Meghan!!!

Georgetown Cupcake! They have a show on TLC now!

AOII girls reunite for dinner in U-Street Corridor

Meghan and I at the Lincoln Memorial

WWII Memorial

Wow, what a great and busy weekend! I was so busy that i never really got a chance to relax, but that's ok because it was so much fun. Friday after work I met up with Jill, Katleyn, Liz, Matthew and other Vandy students at a bar for a Happy Hour Ivy League Mixer. I met some nice people and it was fun to mingle with other interns. The funniest part was that the bar where we were at , The Reserve, was being boycotted! The workers were outside picketing the bar/restaurant for unpaid wages. I've never had to cross a picket line before- but i did! It was really funny and very unusual at the same time.

Friday night the suite girls went to 930 club in the U Street Corridor, where they had a Lady Gaga-MIA-Madonna night. Every song was one of those 3 artists. It was a really fun girls night, and then we crashed and woke up the next morning and Meghan arrived!! Meghan lives in Baltimore so her drive was about an hour, and she stayed until Sunday afternoon. We went and did the monuments (where Meghan graciously allowed me to ramble like i do so often) and then got lunch at Zorbas, a really yummy Greek place in Dupont Circle. We wandered around that area for a bit and then shopped around in Pentagon City Mall by my metro stop. Then we went to Busboys & Poets, near my work in Columbia Heights/U Street and met up with some of our other wonderful AOII sisters! Liz, Kelley, Maria, Meghan and I had a wonderful dinner. Busboys and poets is a wonderful place that is part bookstore, part coffee house/part performance space and part restaurant. It is quickly becoming one of my favorite places in DC!! After that, Meghan and I went and saw Twilight: Eclipse (pause for obligatory groan) but for my A) low expectations and B)understanding of the cheesy, poorly written script, it was definitely entertaining. I think the movies are definitely getting better, even if i still really dislike the idea of sparkly vampires :)

Sunday Meghan and I went to Georgetown and shopped around, and also went to the famous Georgetown Cupcake! It was super yummy and I had a delicious Chocolate-Coconut cupcake. TLC is starting a reality show on the store in the next few weeks and the line is always wrapped around the door. It was cool to see! After that, we met up with my friend Brian! Brian and I always seem to run into each other. We did speech together in high school, and Brian lives in Nashville but goes to Georgetown. Usually I see him when he's on Vandy's campus, but it was awesome to see him in DC!

Meghan left after our afternoon in Georgetown, and Katelyn drove the 4 suitemates + Maria (my roommate for this upcoming year who just arrived in DC for July-August) to her house in Baltimore where we had a really wonderful summer BBQ with her whole family. it was so nice to have a home cooked meal and get to sit outside with a big group of people and just hang out. it reminded me a lot of our family nights on the river at home and made me miss everyone! But it was a great time.

This week, Evlyn is on vacation in Los Angeles, and Anita is gone for most of the week as well. Since Michelle apparently fell down stairs this weekend, she isn't in today either. So, it's just Cara and I in the office (which is weird, even thought I really like her). Not too much going on here in the office! I'm just crossing my fingers that the rain will hold off until I can get home safely!