Weekend Fun

What a great weekend! I feel like this weekend was a little bit of a reward for all the conferences I've been to over the years where I had to sit in meetings all day instead of going out and having fun.*

This weekend one of my B'more friends had a conference to attend in DC. The hotel room was paid for by school and her roommate bailed, so she invited me to stay in the (already paid for) extra spot. So I got to have fun in DC all weekend, while she had to sit in meetings all day. (Sorry Lauren!)

We arrived Friday night, and I spent the evening with a former B'more roommate, Amanda. We had dinner with some of her friends and got cupcakes at Crumbs Bakery afterward. (I'm not really into this whole cupcake craze, but these are tasty! And all the flavors!)

The next day I went down to the National Mall and went running. I haven't gone running for awhile, and ran for over an hour, which felt simultaneously great and exhausting. And running on the Mall is so fun. I made my way over the the Tidal Basin/Jefferson Memorial so I could see the cherry blossoms. So pretty! Here are some pictures I took.

The Jefferson Memorial is my favorite!


(Why yes....I did go running right before I taking this picture.)

While at the blossoms, I was able to meet up with my friend Larissa who was down from NYC to visit a friend and go to the blossoms festival. So fun to see her, even though it was brief!

From there I went to my friend Tiffany's house (old roommate from Austin). We watched both sessions of General Conference there. Afterward we got custard with some girls from her ward and then watched both Final Four basketball games while eating Italian take out. (We were rooting for VCU and Kentucky....and were disappointed by the outcomes of both games, but they were both exciting games!)

Lauren's conference ended Sunday at noon, and we went over to a church building in Alexandria to watch the Sunday morning session of General Conference, but were foiled when it turned out they were not showing it. Nooo! We decided then to just go straight back to Baltimore. We hit horrible traffic leaving DC, and tried finding a detour. After a few wrong turns we finally got on our way (and the route was prettier than the original one anyway, and no traffic!). Finally we got to Baltimore. I'll catch the morning session online later, and watched the afternoon session on my laptop.

Fun weekend! And it's starting to warm up today. Yay spring!



* But don't feel too sorry for me. I'm usually able to find time to have fun when I go to conferences.