Posts Tagged ‘Washington DC’

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.

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Nicole and Lucia
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Nicole, Michelle, and Jill checking out all the options.
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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
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Now thats a pot of paella
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Nicole, Michelle and Esto enjoying some of the food we got.
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Ross, Esto and Lucia hanging out in the park after the taste.

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).

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The historical fly by with a WWII plane, F16 and F22.
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Entrance to the show
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Nicole and Michelle watching the planes up above.
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Michelle in the cockpit
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Army’s Golden Knight jump demonstration
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Geico Skywritters.
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Nicole and Michelle in front of a helicopter
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Ross found a gun to play with
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Abrams tank.. I want to drive this on the beltway.
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Blue Angles diamond group. Look how close they are to one another.
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Blue Angles high speed pass.
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More Blue Angels
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All 6 blue angels.
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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.
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Ross and Nicole at the metro stop waiting to go home.

Snowmageddon

February 6th, 2010

Some early pictures from snowmagedd0n of 2010. I’m going to guess we got about 20+ inches already and we still have a few more hours of snow. We definitely love living at the Meridian since we don’t have to shovel any of it and there are things near by. In fact this morning we went over to Harris Teeter to get some essentials like beer, guacamole and chips.

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So much snow coming down we couldn’t even take a picture of ross
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Nicole trying to make a snow angel
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Our quick and dirty snowman
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Nicole is up to her knees
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Snowpocalypse

January 8th, 2010

So the night of the holiday party turned out to be the start of a major snow storm in Washington. It was snowing in some form or another from late friday night until sunday morning. By the time it was all done we had almost two feet of snow. At around noon on saturday we went out to the park next to our apartment and played in the snow. We had a good time and there were surprisingly few other people out. Sadly the snow wasn’t the right wetness to really be able to make snowballs so mostly we kind of just rolled in the snow and walked around in it.Mostly we stayed in doors and otherwise enjoyed the fact that it was so pretty outside but that we didn’t have to go out in it since the roads were a disaster. Here are some of the pictures from when we went out to play in the snow. Keep in mind at this point only about 1/3 of the snow we got for the weekend had fallen.

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View from our apartment.
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The visibility at one of the heavier points of the snow fall. We could barley see down the block for most of the day.
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Hehe I pushed nicole into the snow.
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Uh oh what is Ross going to do with that.
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Nicole’s snow angel.
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Ross’ attempt at a snow angel. Yeah I clearly don’t know what i’m doing. But hey I’m from hawaii.

Unfortunately for nicole the weekend we got all the snow was also the weekend we were supposed to go to the theater to see Young Frankenstein. For most of the day I figured we’d be in good shape since the website was saying all shows were still going on and I thought we could just jump on the metro to get there even if the roads were awful. Around 1 we got called from the restaurant where we had dinner reservations to see if we were still coming cause they weren’t sure they were gonna open. An hour later they called us back to cancel so we where left without food before the show. So we headed over to Harris Teeter since it was nearby. Walking over there wasn’t bad since most of the walkways around the mall had been cleared properly and it was only lightly snowing. While we were shopping for food we got the bright idea that we should check the Kennedy Center again. Turns out they had just called off all the late afternoon and evening shows. Nicole was kinda bummed out since she was really looking forward to her show. We ended up wandering around the supermarket for awhile and bought a ton of food for dinner since we were kinda hungry and were trying to cheer ourselves up. For dinner we ended up with rib eye steaks, canned spinach, fresh  tortellini with sauce, brussel sprouts and bacon. Yeah totally random but it cheered us up.

Mom Visits

January 2nd, 2010

At the beginning of November my mother came to visit us for a couple of weeks. Here are some picture highlights of her trip:

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At cox farms drinking our free cider. Was very yummy.
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Ross is a big kid ridding the slides.
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On the hay ride which was a lot of fun.
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Mom and Me in front of the corn maze.
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Ross petting the goats.
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Nicole, Ross, and Janice at cox farms with our free pumpkins.
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Crab dinner.
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Nicole’s Birthday with her cousins at Founding Farmers. The food was good and it was great that nicole’s cousins could come out and celebrate with us.
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Nicole in old town Alexandria
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Janice in old town Alexandria in front of a nice fall tree.
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At the Metropolitan Cooking and Entertaining Show. We had a good time going around to all the boths and sampling things.
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Ross in front of the sign for Guy who was giving his demonstration at the time.
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Ross and Nicole at the WWII monument.
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Ross and Janice being silly while we took a break from walking around.
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Us at the lincon memorial
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View from the washington monument.
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Janice at the top of the Washington Monument
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Last night at the melting pot.