Trip to DC

So last weekend, I went to visit Ben and we took a trip to DC for the weekend. I must admit, our expected itinerary was pretty busy, but it's been almost 8 years since I was there, and as an 8th grader, one can not honestly experience and appreciate DC for everything it is. It is such a powerful city and there is so much respect in the city that you can't even imagine as a 14 year old.

First, I would like to say how safe I really felt the entire weekend. It was very clean, the traffic was NOT as bad as I expected it to be, it was a lot bigger then I remember it being, but I really loved it. The homeless people were not begging you for money. They had what they had, and they slept on the park benches with everything they had and just left everyone alone.

So the plan was the following:

Get in Friday at 2, get to the academy about 3, get in to DC around 5 and rent bikes and ride around to all the monuments and around that National Mall Friday afternoon, then get a pizza and hang out. Well this didn't happen. I got in to Annapolis (the academy) at 3, but Ben didn't get out of class and back to his dorm until almost four, so I saw by a fountain and read and actually saw a few of the guys in his company which was nice. We ended up not renting bikes because we didn't get to DC until almost 7:30/8ish (before we left the yard, Ben had to pack, go to the library and get a book for the SMT guys, and then get his bike and get to jeep). We did however get pizza and hang out. We walked around downtown and just enjoyed the really nice evening.

Just messing around while waiting for Ben

Just messing around while waiting for Ben

Saturday, we planned on going to the Smithsonian, the Newseum, and the Spy Museum. Instead we woke up, went and worked out (and I purposefully wore the same colors as he did, haha) went to the Holocaust Museum and the Smithsonian of American History and then around and saw the monuments and the White House. It rained a little bit, but we didn't let that put a damper on the day. We ate breakfast at a "Cosi" that I like to compare to a Starbucks and Panera combined and for lunch, we had hotdogs from the little food stands that are all over the city and for dinner, we went to Fogo de Chao (where on the way, I got cat-called by a homeless man who told Ben "you've got yourself a good one!").

All of the shoes at the Holocaust Museum

Us before working out and going for a run around DC

While walking around, we saw the White House, the new World War II Monument, the Washington Monument and the Capitol building.

Washington Monument 

WWII Memorial

Us in front of the White House

Ben with our tower we built in the Smithsonian of American History

Date night Saturday night! <3

WWII Memorial

On Sunday, we had originally planned to go to the Holocaust Museum, Arlington, the Navy/Marine's Monument, and the Pentagon 9/11 memorial. But all we ended up having time for was the Spy Museum and the 9/11 Memorial before heading back to Annapolis. The 9/11 Memorial was a little confusing because we missed the sheet that explained it, so as we were walking through it, we were trying to figure it out, but it ended up making us think about it more since we didn't know anything about it, and after we found out we were right about most assumptions about it. Sunday night when we got back to Annapolis, I checked in to my hotel while Ben went back for their 6 pm reformation and I got Chipotle for him, me and his roommate Ryan. We spent the rest of the night working on homework before I fell asleep on his lap while attempting to read.

Place we ate breakfast Sunday morning

My secret identity during the Spy Museum! lol

9/11 Memorial at the Pentagon

9/11 Memorial at the Pentagon

Whoops! Guess it's time for a new suitcase!

Monday morning, bright and early, I headed back to the Academy to take Jeep back to Ben and we had just enough time to park on Hospital Point and walk Ben to class where we had to say a quick goodbye since he's not allowed to do anything "ungentlemenly" in his uniform, and then I went to my shuttle and headed to the airport, and this is when the fun started! As I'm walking across the yard, I'm dragging my suitcase behind me and the handle ended up bending so bad that it wouldn't go back in to my suitcase, so after getting through security and finding my gate, two nice gentlemen tried to help me literally kick the handle back in and it still wouldn't go, so after 15 minutes of struggling with my suitcase, I decided I would just break the handle because if I didn't, it was not going to fit on the airplane.


Needless to say, the weekend was pretty amazing! I miss Ben so much when we're not together, but when we finally get to see each other, everything is perfect and I fall for him more and more. I cannot wait to see him next, unfortunately, I do not know what that will be :( but I know that the next time I do, it will be just as great as this trip was.