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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Taste of Arlington
May 23rd, 2010Andrews Joint Forces Open House
May 16th, 2010On 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).
Snowmageddon
February 6th, 2010Some 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.
Snowpocalypse
January 8th, 2010So 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.
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, 2010At the beginning of November my mother came to visit us for a couple of weeks. Here are some picture highlights of her trip: