Sayin' Bye

We took a trip to the city to visit all the memorials and a bakery that we wanted to go to before our big move next month. We got to see DC on memorial day weekend, which was all filled with Vietnam vets on bikes.

We also did not plan the day so well (as far as metro riding goes...) and we ended up walking about 10 miles through the city yesterday...Paul was wearing Sparies and I was wearing Converse- not terrible, but also not my first choice of walking in for that long. Anyways, the weather was pretty prime- besides an hour of sprinkling...so it was a good time. Lets recap!

See...there they are.

Waiting for the Metro, at good ol' branch

Metro-ing it.

This is what we emerged from the Metro station into. A biker parade.

It was loud. My ears are sensitive.

Pretty flowers in the garden. I cant wait to have a big garden!

A kind fella took our picture, then commented, "It looks good...not like either one of you could take a bad picture!" He was not straight.

Walking towards the Hirsshorn Museum.

Creepy big weeble-wobbles

Chuck Close...close up.

I took this pic to show my students (we looked at Chuck Close a few weeks ago) I wanted to show them scale.

A Magritte. We also looked at this guy a couple weeks ago. This is me censoring the image.

Here is the back story: I showed a video on Magritte that I had not previewed before showing them...and it was pretty graphic- It was an interesting class of frantic fast forwarding...

A Ron Mueck hyper-real sculpture. This sucker was huge.

Pretty colors. I would hang this in my house...

A Fed-Ex art piece! (Daddy!!) I am thinking they shipped those glass boxes to see what would happen to them, and that is the outcome.

Just looked cool.

We then went and ate the picnic lunch I had packed. We got to the bench, and found this little fella peeping away on the ground next to us...

See! peeping!

AH! MAMA CAME TO FEED HIM!

that is our bread she is feeding him. We threw enough pieces of bread on the ground that they can survive for months. haha...

Oops. The bread didn't make it in...

Lets try a grape! (Also ours...)

Choking that big, mean grape down. It took him a while but he did it! Yay!

Paul, realizing, "We just fed a baby bird one of our grapes..."

He was excited that technically we had just fed a baby bird (he was not exactly giving the mom any credit)

Once I stopped shaking from the cute overload, we went to see the hope diamond!

And a pretty tiara ...I want one...

Hmm...Yeah....I mean....I guess I would accept this as a gift...

Hallway

Capoeira group.

I was taking a bunch of pictures when Paul said the vibe had been ruined by the "khaki guy" (some weird guy started doing the moves and was not as good...) and as we were walking away, Paul was like, "Why didn't you take any pictures!?!?"

...........I had taken about 20 pictures. Whew. Boys sometimes...

Memorial Day concert, as viewed from the Lincoln Memorial

"Hey Abes!"

More bikes.

At Baked & Wired, this cupcake and coffee shop in Georgetown

Red velvet and strawberry.

Was not impressed. I was bummed because I had heard so many good things about B&W...the cake was too dense, frosting was TOO SWEET (wow, never thought I would say that...) and was nothing unique about it. The actual store on the other hand was really cool.

Bottom Line: Avoid Georgetown all together, go to Lavender Moon in Alexandria or Hello Cupcake in Dupont Circle.

Shopping at Urban Outfitters in G-Tizzle.

Pennsylvania Ave baby!