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Archive for May, 2010

Taste of Arlington

May 23rd, 2010

Last weekend in addition to the air show we had the Taste of Arlington on Sunday. It was ideal for us since it was just across the street from our apartment. We invited Jill, Esto, and Lucia to come down to our place and then head out to the festival. The weather was perfect and since you got 8 tastes for $20 there was tons of food to go around. The weather was perfect so there were tons of people that came out to the taste and towards the end some of the lines were getting kind of unreasonable. Thankfully we had gone early so we were leaving by the time it was wall to wall bodies.

Nicole and Lucia

Nicole, Michelle, and Jill checking out all the options.

Yay for crab cakes. The line was super long but was a good thing we went when we did. Cause the line got out of control later in the day

Now thats a pot of paella

Nicole, Michelle and Esto enjoying some of the food we got.

Ross, Esto and Lucia hanging out in the park after the taste.

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Andrews Joint Forces Open House

May 16th, 2010

On Saturday we went to Andrews AFB Joint Forces Open House. If you’re around DC this time next year I totally recommend going as we had an amazing time. Nicole’s high school friend was up visiting us this weekend so the three of us went to check out the open house. The event is free to the public and the only catch is you can’t drive on to the base you have to park or catch the metro to a designated spot and then they bus everyone to the base.

The open house had all kinds of planes on the ground that you could go up to and check out. They had both old historical planes and current working planes and vehicles. Also throughout the day they had air demonstrations of various military aircraft as well as the army’s demo jumper team (Golden Knights). The highlight/finally of the day was the performance by the Blue Angels which was awesome. I’ve never been to an air show that I can remember so it was a ton of fun. Here are just a couple of pictures of the day (I took 750 pictures).

The historical fly by with a WWII plane, F16 and F22.

Entrance to the show

Nicole and Michelle watching the planes up above.

Michelle in the cockpit

Army’s Golden Knight jump demonstration

Geico Skywritters.

Nicole and Michelle in front of a helicopter

Ross found a gun to play with

Abrams tank.. I want to drive this on the beltway.

Blue Angles diamond group. Look how close they are to one another.

Blue Angles high speed pass.

More Blue Angels

All 6 blue angels.

Nicole and Michelle waiting to get on the bus back to the metro. Only bummer of the day was that it took almost 2 hours to get back to the metro.

Ross and Nicole at the metro stop waiting to go home.

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Luray Caverns

May 3rd, 2010

After leaving the cabin on Sunday Nicole wanted to go to Luray Caverns which was only a few miles away. We got there pretty early so it hadn’t gotten crowded yet so we were able to go right in. When we first drove up to the place it didn’t look like much cause all you could see was a building on a gentle hill. But once we went down into the caverns it was pretty amazing to see all the different formations. We got quite a few good pictures with the new camera. I had a good time looking around since i’d never seen anything like it before. The caverns was in pretty good condition and well managed. We spent a couple of hours checking things out and listening to the tour before we headed back to dc.

At Luray Caverns

The start of the caverns

Ross and Nicole taken by a nice foreign tourist.

The Dream Lake.

Can you tell where the water is?

Titania’s Veil

Ross listening to the audio tour that was pretty good.

The wishing well. Not sure why people threw dollar bills into the well.

Close up of the fried eggs

Nicole in the last big cavern area.

Ross was slightly blind after coming out of the caverns.

Here’s the link to the place http://www.luraycaverns.com

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River Bluff Cabins

May 2nd, 2010

This past weekend Nicole and I went on a fun weekend getaway to a cabin in western virginia. It had been a busy few months for us so we planned this mini vacation. We didn’t have any plans for the weekend except to just relax and read at the cabin. This place was similar to the one we went to last year except it’s location. It was ideal since it was less than two hours away so we didn’t have to drive that far and we left after work on friday. Overall we had a good time but I was reminded that I’m a city boy since the bugs got on my nerves. We enjoyed the use of the hot tub and had a good time just hanging out with just the two of us.