Momma goes to Washington

One of my Christmas presents was a weekend away to visit my bestie Taylor in DC.  I finally cashed in on that gift last weekend and went to visit Aunt Tay Tay for her birthday!  We had a blast!  Taylor lives in an awesome neighborhood that I hadn’t been to before, so we checked out her new place and then we set off on foot and walked for hours!  It was awesome!  I’ll admit, it was also awesome to not have a clue or care as to what time it was!  We went shopping and then we headed to the marina to go to this awesome place for dinner, right on the water with views of the city in the background!  After many margaritas we walked approximately 30 miles to do a night-time tour of the city….I had to go see Abe!

Tay’s new place:

The best wallet ever.

Cantina Marina

And our margarita enhanced rainy night-time tour of DC.

I’ve got the whole world, in my hands….mwuahahaha

My, the Washington Monument is tall.

I’m coming for you Abe….

So, I’m using our old camera and it takes awful pictures (it was the camera, I swear, not the 5 margaritas) and I’m sitting here taking the above picture like 40 times and I turn around to this..

Pensive WWII moment, couldn’t have been captured without an amazing photographer

This would have been awesome with a better camera

This took only 3 takes to get us and Abe in the background

So glad to see you Abe!

Smooches!

Saturday we went to a Nationals baseball game.  They were playing the Milwaukee Brewers and the Purdue Alumni Club was having a joint tailgate with the Wisconsin Alumni Club.  I did a lot of stuff with the Purdue Alumni Club when I lived in DC so I was excited to go to an event when I went back!  However…almost 7 years later, it should be no surprise that I now know no one!  ha!

The tailgate (looked cooler than the picture I swear!)

 

 

Teddy!!!

And the ballpark!  And this is what Taylor does with her arms in all pictures.

Well, what the hell, why not?

 

Poor Tay Tay, bought this HUGE box of skittles, that came with a TEENY TINY bag of actual skittles.

After the game there was a beer tent with live music!  Yes Please!

After the beer tent we went to get pedicures and then off to dinner with some old friends!  And then we hit Georgetown dancing all night long.  Way.too.much.FUN.  Unfortunately (wink wink) my camera died after the beer tent, so no more pictures to share.  And on Sunday before heading back to reality, we went to brunch with some of Tay Tay’s girlfriends to celebrate her 34th birthday (ha!) and then went to Cheesecake factory for a slice of cheesecake to round out the day!  Love you Tay Tay!  I had the BEST weekend!  And a serious shout-out to daddy for letting me leave early on Friday and come home late on Sunday and taking care of the boys all weekend while I played!