Man I needed a break!!
Monday was a super crazy day! I had all my classes and then for FHE we helped decorate Main Hall for Christmas. It turned out most wards had the same idea and we overwhelmed the people in charge. This resulted in most of us just standing around not doing much!
On Tuesday, Ewa and I kept checking our phones willing an email from our boss to come saying that work was canceled. We went to our classes and worked on some homework and we both needed to pack! Our plan was to leave at 8pm after work. We started packing around 2ish and then we got the email! Work was basically canceled. If you were "here" you were suppose to work... so we didn't work! We packed up the whole car and drove down to dinner. We ate and then (after we went back to my room to get the fruit snacks) we left for DC! It was a pretty smooth drive till we hit traffic an hour into the drive. We were stuck for about half an hour and then it opened up. We got to the Garfeilds around 9ish I think, and the craziness began! Ewa, Raquel and I ended up talking till around 12:30. Then Ewa and I stayed up talking till past 2!
Wednesday we woke up early and got ready to go to the temple. We were meeting Andrea there at 10:30. We left somewhere around 9 and on our drive the snow storm hit! It had been raining all morning and as we drove it just got crazier. Once we were at the temple, the snow arrived there and it was beautiful! I am so grateful that we were able to start break off by going to the temple. The peace that is there always amazes me. What a blessing they are!
We walked around the visitors center afterword (Ewa and I also changed into warmer clothes because we had some adventures planned). Every year they have a festival full of manger scenes from all across the world. Raquel said that from December 1st on it is packed with people and you have to wait hours in the line. There wasn't a soul there! We got the whole room to ourselves! I loved looking at all of the scenes. It was awesome!
We then got in the car with Andrea and her friend Candice. They were going to drop us off in the city on their way home. We got in and they asked if we were hungry. I was starving! Candice then said, "Are you hungry for Cafe Rio?" Who does she think I am! YES! So we listened to disney and christmas music and headed to paradise! It was delicious but Cafe Rio on the east coast tastes different than the west coast. Even Andrea agreed! We then were dropped off at the Smithsonian. We went to the Air and Space museum first. We were there for probably an hour then we went to the art museum! We both took art history and are a lover of art! We stayed there for two and a half hours (till it closed) and we didn't even see it all!!! We were so sad, but happy we could see some of it. I just LOVE art! AHH! We navigated the metro to the closest station home, then Reid came and got us. We got back for a yummy dinner of homemade potato soup and hung up curtains. I must say they look quite good!
Thursday we woke up and played some games! We all just hung out and enjoyed the delicious smell of turkey, casserole, stuffing, and roles. We ate about 2:30 and because we had homemade cranberry muffins for breakfast at 11.. we didn't actually eat a whole lot. It was mighty good though! After we ate we went to go play dodgeball with another family in their ward. It was sooo cold! I had on so many layers and my warm coat and still froze! After that we came back home and ate pie! It was so good! We relaxed the rest of the night and enjoyed homemade wassail! It was the best.
Brigham is my favorite!
Oh I missed Slush!!
Friday we got woken up by everyone all the sudden in our room. We hurried and got ready and then headed to Old Navy for some great deals for black friday. Seth, Andrea, Ewa and I all bought a ton of stuff! What else can you do when the entire store is 50% off? It was packed and the whole experience was a bit crazy. I made everyone go to Barnes and Noble afterwords because its the best store ever! Then we got in the car and waited for Raquel to meet us so she could buy the stuff that Seth picked out. Once we were home we ate left overs for lunch. All of us ate way more for lunch then we did on actual Thanksgiving! We were stuffed! Andrea then drove Ewa and I back into the city. We walked from the White House to the Washington monument, then to the World War II monument, then the Lincoln. We then headed up to the Foggy Bottom metro station where we got hot chocolate and a croissant for dinner. Then we walked to the Kennedy Center and saw Sutton Foster! It was really cool to hear her sing with the whole national orchestra. She is perfect and I don't know why we arn't best friends!
We had a lot of fun shadow dancing at the Lincoln!
I was super skilled getting this picture!
Ewa called these the Splash Mountain seats!
Monday was a super crazy day! I had all my classes and then for FHE we helped decorate Main Hall for Christmas. It turned out most wards had the same idea and we overwhelmed the people in charge. This resulted in most of us just standing around not doing much!
On Tuesday, Ewa and I kept checking our phones willing an email from our boss to come saying that work was canceled. We went to our classes and worked on some homework and we both needed to pack! Our plan was to leave at 8pm after work. We started packing around 2ish and then we got the email! Work was basically canceled. If you were "here" you were suppose to work... so we didn't work! We packed up the whole car and drove down to dinner. We ate and then (after we went back to my room to get the fruit snacks) we left for DC! It was a pretty smooth drive till we hit traffic an hour into the drive. We were stuck for about half an hour and then it opened up. We got to the Garfeilds around 9ish I think, and the craziness began! Ewa, Raquel and I ended up talking till around 12:30. Then Ewa and I stayed up talking till past 2!
Wednesday we woke up early and got ready to go to the temple. We were meeting Andrea there at 10:30. We left somewhere around 9 and on our drive the snow storm hit! It had been raining all morning and as we drove it just got crazier. Once we were at the temple, the snow arrived there and it was beautiful! I am so grateful that we were able to start break off by going to the temple. The peace that is there always amazes me. What a blessing they are!
We walked around the visitors center afterword (Ewa and I also changed into warmer clothes because we had some adventures planned). Every year they have a festival full of manger scenes from all across the world. Raquel said that from December 1st on it is packed with people and you have to wait hours in the line. There wasn't a soul there! We got the whole room to ourselves! I loved looking at all of the scenes. It was awesome!
We then got in the car with Andrea and her friend Candice. They were going to drop us off in the city on their way home. We got in and they asked if we were hungry. I was starving! Candice then said, "Are you hungry for Cafe Rio?" Who does she think I am! YES! So we listened to disney and christmas music and headed to paradise! It was delicious but Cafe Rio on the east coast tastes different than the west coast. Even Andrea agreed! We then were dropped off at the Smithsonian. We went to the Air and Space museum first. We were there for probably an hour then we went to the art museum! We both took art history and are a lover of art! We stayed there for two and a half hours (till it closed) and we didn't even see it all!!! We were so sad, but happy we could see some of it. I just LOVE art! AHH! We navigated the metro to the closest station home, then Reid came and got us. We got back for a yummy dinner of homemade potato soup and hung up curtains. I must say they look quite good!
Thursday we woke up and played some games! We all just hung out and enjoyed the delicious smell of turkey, casserole, stuffing, and roles. We ate about 2:30 and because we had homemade cranberry muffins for breakfast at 11.. we didn't actually eat a whole lot. It was mighty good though! After we ate we went to go play dodgeball with another family in their ward. It was sooo cold! I had on so many layers and my warm coat and still froze! After that we came back home and ate pie! It was so good! We relaxed the rest of the night and enjoyed homemade wassail! It was the best.
Friday we got woken up by everyone all the sudden in our room. We hurried and got ready and then headed to Old Navy for some great deals for black friday. Seth, Andrea, Ewa and I all bought a ton of stuff! What else can you do when the entire store is 50% off? It was packed and the whole experience was a bit crazy. I made everyone go to Barnes and Noble afterwords because its the best store ever! Then we got in the car and waited for Raquel to meet us so she could buy the stuff that Seth picked out. Once we were home we ate left overs for lunch. All of us ate way more for lunch then we did on actual Thanksgiving! We were stuffed! Andrea then drove Ewa and I back into the city. We walked from the White House to the Washington monument, then to the World War II monument, then the Lincoln. We then headed up to the Foggy Bottom metro station where we got hot chocolate and a croissant for dinner. Then we walked to the Kennedy Center and saw Sutton Foster! It was really cool to hear her sing with the whole national orchestra. She is perfect and I don't know why we arn't best friends!
We had a lot of fun shadow dancing at the Lincoln!
I was super skilled getting this picture!
Ewa called these the Splash Mountain seats!
Saturday we spent sometime in the morning just with the family. We ate a big lunch again and helped decorate for Christmas. We left about an hour after we wanted to... that was expected though! Another traffic jam happened and this time I put the car in park. For dinner we went and got frozen hot chocolate :) When we made it back home we unloaded the car and both got some homework done. Then we watched While You Were Sleeping to kick off the Christmas season right! (We also listened to the Pentatonix Christmas album the whole drive! Its soo cool!).
Sunday we had all 6 wards combine because most everyone was still gone. It was fun to sit by all of our friends in the other wards. After church it was fun to see the whole campus come back to life. It was a great break.... now on to Finals!
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