First we met up for lunch with my friend Tina in baltimore - she's at Peabody conservatory studying piano. The picture is terribly back lit, but oh well...
After that, Jenny and I headed down to D.C. we went to the national mall and visited some of the Smithsonian museums. Too bad they close so early.
We went to the Natural History museum. Jenny particularly liked this little mouse, it's a Dzhungarian hamster. so tiny and cute!
There was also a special orchid exhibit that was there, it was just like a jungle of orchids everywhere! It reminded me of the movie Adaptation and the ghost orchid - i kept looking for it, even though I'm not sure if it's actually real.
They also had an exhibit where they show winners of the annual National Geographic photography contests. The photos were really amazing. I really liked this one:
After the museums, we walked around the mall for a bit - I wanted to go to the new WWII memorial, I remember it being really pretty - but it was so far away! and cold. We walked to the Washington monument, and then decided to head out.
We were looking for a coffeeshop to do some homework in before dinner. And for some reason early that day we had been talking about the frozen yogurt (the type from pinkberrry and the like, and how Jenny said it's really good and she always can't wait to have it when she goes back to chicago or boston. And then we passed by a yogurt shop! So we went in and got some. Delicious :D
For dinner, we went to a really good Middle Eastern restaurant called Mama Ayesha's that Heng recommended. At first when Jenny and I passed by around 6 it looked kind of empty, and it was sort of by itself. But when we got there for dinner - it was bustling and filled with people. Josh Park and Mike Wu were able to join us after a long day at work for both of them! We had a good time hanging out with each other.
That night we had the wrong train schedule and we missed the last train back to balitmore on the MARC. Luckily during dinner Josh had already offered to let us stay at his hotel with him. He had already requested two beds in his room just in case, so we came over and hung out, watched some family guy and it was a good close to our DC adventure.
Heading out to Boston today! The weather's supposed to be gorgeous this weekend, a good way to close out spring break~
