Hello Everyone!
I am so sorry about not posting over the last week, I have
been so busy with school and then I went out of town with my mom over the
weekend to Washington DC. It has been a hectic week, I have had presentations
and project and papers due. I have been rushing to get everything done in time
so that I can start studying for my finals that begin on Saturday. Luckily most
of my work is done for now and I can focus on studying but I still have 2 papers
to worry about. This past weekend was a lot of fun, I got the chance to get out
of town for at least 24 hours and go see some parts of DC that I haven’t seen
and some old favorites. So because the beginning of my week was boring and
revolved around school, I’m going to tell you all about my 24 hours in DC!
So I came home on Thursday night because we would be leaving
for DC when I normally would have class. So that morning I woke up and got
myself together and finished packing all of the essentials for the trip. Then
once that was done I made some lunch and waited for my mom to get home from her
eye doctor appointment, while I was waiting the lady we were riding with showed
up with her daughter. We talked for a few minutes while we waited for my mom to
show up and when she did we loaded all of our belongings into the car and made
our way towards DC. I had to sit in the back with her daughter which was awful because
I get car sick when I’m stuck in the back seat so I pumped myself full of drugs
to help me get through the 3.5 hour car ride. The drive wasn’t too bad but once
we got close to DC we hit some traffic and that didn’t help with my motion sickness.
Luckily after driving through rush hour in DC on a Friday we made it to our
hotel and we checked in. We only had time to drop off our belongings and use
the bathroom before we had to meet everyone in the lobby to begin our
festivities. Once we met up with our group of 13 people we all set off for the
monuments. It was about 7pm and we walked all the mile from our hotel to the
White House. When we got there we took some pictures and looked around before
making our way to the Washington Monument, after that we walked to the WWII
monument which is my absolute favorite monument. I could sit and look at it for
hours and not get bored, I took plenty of pictures and I walked all the way
around it just listening to the fountains and enjoying the calm feeling I had
there. Unfortunately I couldn’t stay there and we had to keep moving on, and we
ended up at the Korean War memorial. My grandfather fought in that war so my
mom and I paid our respects and walked through the memorial and it is a
beautiful as well. All the monuments in DC are beautiful and they just make you
feel calm. After that one we went to the Lincoln monument and he is my favorite
president so I always enjoy looking up at the giant statue of him and think of
what it would’ve been like to know him. After we finished there we all decided
to go eat some dinner at 9:00 at night… and instead of walking we were going to
take taxis. But with 13 people it’s hard to find enough taxis to fit us all, so
we split up into two taxis there was 4 people in a small cab and 9 people in a
van which is illegal since there are only 7 seats but we made it work and we
only went a short distance. At dinner, all those old enough ordered alcoholic
beverages because it had been a long day, and our food took a while to get to
us so we didn’t eat until close to 10. The salmon I ordered was awful, it was
overcooked and the potatoes weren’t that great and they didn’t even give me the
vegetables I ordered. It was a nightmare and I just wanted to go to bed. So
after dinner we took a cab and went back to the hotel where I got ready for bed
as fast as possible and I was asleep within minutes of my head hitting the pillow.
The next day we ate breakfast at the hotel before walking to
the closest Starbucks for some good coffee, after that we walked to the National
History Museum and spent 4 hours in there exploring all of the exhibits and
different rooms they had there. I’m a huge history nerd so I was loving all of
the exhibits, in one of the exhibits was the Hall of Mammals and they had a
sloth. Sloths are my favorite animal so I had to see if they had one in the
gift shop that I could buy because I have never been able to find a stuffed animal
sloth before and they did! I was so excited that I bought it right away and I named
him Simon. He is so cute a fluffy, he makes me so happy. Then after spending so
much time there and eating lunch in their fancy café we went next door to the
American History museum where they have everything from the first lady’s inaugural
dresses to the red slippers from the Wizard of Oz and the first American flag
from the 1800’s. It was awesome to look around that museum but at that point in
the day my feet and my back were killing me and I was ready to get going. We
had spent over 3 hours in that museum along with the 4 hours at the other and I
had woken up around 6:30, so I was exhausted. Luckily at that point we all were
tired and we got taxis back to the hotel and we all got in our cars and made
our way out of DC. We stopped in Richmond for dinner a few hours later and my
food there was fantastic and made up for the crappy dinner I had the previous
day. After dinner we only had an hour left before we would make it home, so we
powered through the rain and we got home around 11:00pm. I was exhausted and I grabbed
all of the stuff and went to my room as fast as my tired legs could take me and
I threw my stuff on the floor and kicked my shoes off before getting dressed
for bed. The minute I laid down in my bed I was gone!
Then today I didn’t do much, other than drive back to school
like I usually do! This week coming up is another hectic week so I probably won’t
blog much until I am done with school on the 6th of May so just hang
in there with me y’all! Y’all are the best and I hope you have a wonderful
week!
Thanks for reading xoxo Lashleigh
