In my 23 years on this planet I had traveled up and down the East Coast hundreds of times, for lacrosse, touring with Phish, and vacations, and countless other reasons, yet I had never stopped in our great nation's capital, Washington DC. This past Memorial Day weekend, a fitting time, I made my first trip with Lee and spent the weekend at her fathers house, sans father.
I can honestly say it is one of the nicest cities I have ever been to. I don't know what I was expecting, but it was NICE. Super clean, very diverse, both culturally and arhcitecurally (is that a word?), and the perfect amount of southern charm. Very preppy, eh, but all around pretty 'hip'. We spent a lot of time in Georgetown and laying around her pool drinking/tanning/bbq'ing, but did venture downtown to the mall and caught a bunch of the sites (see pics below), which was very cool.
We drank by the waterfront one afternoon at a big open air bar. Had cocktails and dinner the next day on the Verandah at Congressional (see: BALLER), drank at some exclusive Russian vodka bar by the embassy, and had an all around Love 2 (not) Hate time.
It's the type of city that would be awesome to live in, but not for another 10 years. It's just flat out...nice. I'll definitely be heading back soon.
****HIGHLIGHTS OF THE WEEKEND*****
-Jumbo Slice Pizza-slices literally about 3 times the size of my head. Fucking absurd. And tasty.
-Being called a Jonas Brother by a frat boy at a bar. Painful on so many levels...
-Congressional Verandah cocktails. Felt like I was sippin wine on a Colombian coke lords manor. Gem.
-Seeing Greg Olcott and his huge, ugly head
-WWII memorial. Sobering.
-Fish Tacos
-"Warm out today. Warm out yesterday. Warmer today..."
Van Gogh at the Smithsonian
Some Savo attempting to hardbody the CIA
Aww
This house is White
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