Ann, Grandma, mom, dad, Karl, and Natalie all came in over the weekend to hang out with us in DC. We all had a great time. Friday night we went out for Ethiopian in Adams Morgan. Karl turned 21 on October 2, so we had a night on the town Friday night. We went to a few places in Adams Morgan:
- Madam’s Organ (awesome)
- The Angry Inch (not so awesome although they had Guinness, grossest bathrooms ever)
- Dan’s Cafe (sketchy as all hell, we walked out as soon as we walked in)
- Tryst (always awesome)
- Some hotdog place (actually quite good)
We walked to Dupont from there, tried to get into the Eighteenth Street Lounge and failed since we didn’t bring any girls with us (jerks), tried to get into the Fly Lounge (no dice), and ended up hanging out at the top level of the Brickskellar. We had some awesome beers off the tap, including a fantastic pumpkin ale. The bartender was nice and chilled out, there weren’t too many people there, we were able to play some awesome music off of the jukebox, and we closed the place out (they kicked us out at 3). We walked the rest of the way from Dupont to my apartment (approx 3 miles). I bet we walked close to five or six miles that night, drinking the whole way. Good times.
Saturday we hit Politics and Prose, Calvert Woodley wine, Union Station, the Archives, and Captial Grille. Sunday we went to Conie’s Cafe for breakfast and went to Dim Sum for lunch with George at Oriental East. It was really nice to be able to spend the weekend with my family in DC.
Today was wear pink day in support of my Aunt Ann’s successful fight against breast cancer. My aunt’s friends and family wore pink today in support of her, and Kelsey and I were no different. The event was Passionately Pink for the Cure, which is a fund raising drive for the Susan B. Komen for the Cure foundation. It takes place on a date of a team’s choosing in October, which is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. My aunt’s team is made up of my Aunt Ann, my mother, and my Aunt Mary, and is called The Sassy Sisters in Pink. They are asking for donations, so if you are willing and able, please donate online:
Go to http://www.komendonations.org/site/TR/Events/
KomenTR?team_id=44370&pg=team&fr_id=1040, which is the homepage of my aunt’s team.
Click on the Make A Donation link (or go directly to the donation page here.
Make a donation in whatever amount you wish. You can enter your name if you want it to appear on the donations list.
You can also mail a check to the Komen foundation at the address listed on the website, or give cash to my mother or either of my aunts, and they will convert the cash into a money order to send to the Komen foundation.
If any of our readers decide to donate, thanks in advance!
We bought our pink stuff at TJ Maxx (awesome deals on good clothing). While we were there, I found a wetsuit that more or less fits me (one size too large, but who’s complaining?) which I bought for $60. It’ll serve us well when we go whitewater rafting on the Cheat in the spring in the 40-50 degree snowmelt waters 🙂