The Capital: Part Two

Our second day in Washington DC was crazy. I swear my feet and legs were rebelling against me. We left our hotel bright an early again and hopped on the metro. Our first destination was the National Zoo. My guide that I read online warned me that the Zoo was quite a bit away from the metro, but I overlooked that small detail. Never again. I will take a cab to the zoo next time. It was only 9 in the morning and we were already regretting our decision to walk to the zoo, despite wearing my most comfortable pair of Sperry shoes. Honestly, our trip to the zoo didn't last very long. If you look on the map based on the animals that we saw, we only saw the front half of the zoo. It was extremely hot that day, and our poor little feet were dying.

After our short trip to the zoo, we hopped the metro and headed to the National Museum of Art. We only went through one Wing of it, but it was still a blast. It was possibly my favorite part of our entire trip. Side note: Tricia got me completely addicted to the show White Collar. With my Matthew being gone, it was really nice to just sit and look at Matthew Bomer all day! That's besides the point, but I enjoyed the museum so much more because a lot of the Artist mentioned in the show had pieces in the museum. Okay, back on track. It will be much easier to show you rather than tell you about our experience...

Needless to say, we had too much fun for our own good. I swear I saw a guard laugh at us. After that we decided to hit up the Holocaust Museum. We had lunch there, which worked out perfectly because it started to rain so we took the opportunity to grab a few cookies after our delicious panini sandwiches. We decided to head back to the hotel after that.

The weekend we went to DC was crazy hot, so in combination with walking, we needed a nap when we got back to the hotel. Our 20 minute cat nap quickly turned into an afternoon fiesta because when we woke up with was almost 6 in the evening and almost time for dinner. Being the classy people we are, our "out to dinner" night was spent at Bdubs. Well, known as Buffalo Wild Wings to the crazy people out there. What can we say? We love boneless wings. It was a blast, and delicious. We decided to class up the night and have drinks at the bar in the hotel. And, by drinks that means I had a fruity non-alcoholic drink since I'm not of age. It was still a great time!


Tricia, being the most amazing person she is, decided that we deserved to really treat ourselves and order from room service. I've never ordered from room service so it was a real treat. Whenever I stayed in a hotel nice enough to offer room service, I was with my family. There were 5 kids in total, needless to say my family didn't have the funds to pay 8 bucks for a slice of cheesecake. As lame at is was, it was nice to have people wait on us for a change after being alone for 5 months. After eating what room service brought, Tricia was possibly my favorite person in the world!

I am going to include day 3 in this post as well. Labor day was our last day in the city. We checked our of our hotel and drove to the Roosevelt Memorial. It was on it's own little island so it required some walking but was worth it. I don't have any photos but it was beautiful. Our next stop was Georgetown, where the infamous Georgetown Cupcakes is located. I can see why so many people love the area. There are so many shops that would leave me completely bankrupted if Matthew let me go crazy. Anthropology, Urban Outfitters, Betsey Johnson...I could go on forever. If we could live there without having to live on the streets because of cost of living, I would in a heartbeat. Only in the summer though, because as you know... I hate the snow. We went to Georgetown cupcakes, after waiting in a killer line. They were really good cupcakes, don't get me wrong. But, I will probably not spend that much on a cupcake any other time in my life. 

Oh! I forgot to mention about our awesome car ride. I stumbled across this blog via pinterest and thought it'd be a fun way to break up the car ride. Basically, it gives around 30 questions to answer that range anywhere from hardest thing you had to forgive to your dream job to even what animal you'd be. It was actually pretty funny because we could only answer about half of them because we practically new all the answers already. Talk about true friendship! What we also did, which I thought was pretty cool, is bought a ton of post cards to send to the guys so that they could see all of the places we got to visit. I also sent a few to send to family and friends. It was a fun way to send love to our family and let them know we are having a blast. 

 All in all going to DC was my favorite part of this deployment. It really gave us a chance to get away and not thing about the fact that we haven't seen our husbands in months. I am hoping to take Matthew before we move to Louisiana for good, but who knows if we will be able to make it. I hope you enjoyed reading about our trip, I have a few videos that I may get the courage the post. They are on the thin line of awesome and embarrassing! Well, until next time..