The last week :(

So my last week in Washington was filled with excitement!

Monday: Was the most uneventful day of the week. This was the day that we all realized that we had a bunch of stuff that we had to finish by the end of the week, which was almost stressful, but not really. Jill and I watched Made of Honor, which was hilarious and really cute! (we made Dane watch it with us, too)

Tuesday: Crazy day! I was on support, which meant that I got to run a bunch of errands that I didn't have time for. I was supposed to get a couple signatures from members of the finance committee, but the staff didn't like the format of the letter, so I had to redo it... Then we got to go on the SENATE FLOOR during a vote (which basically meant that we got to see all of the senators up close and personal!) When I got back, I sat up front while Sanjay took a tour. In the middle of my lunch break, I had to stop eating and give a capitol tour because we had more tour groups come in than we originally thought. When I got back from that, we had to go on a tour of the Library of Congress, which could have been better...

Wednesday: We had a tour of the future capitol visitor's center. It is a HUGE space that is being constructed out front of the capitol... all underground! It's pretty much amazing. The guy who gave the tour was so well informed, it was unbelievable.
My grandpa came into town for the day with the WWII Veteran's Honor Flight from Northwest Ohio. I went to meet him at the WWII memorial (which is one of the coolest ones, I think). They let me eat lunch with the veterans (for free!). It was really fun and I'm glad my grandpa got to come to see the memorial! When we got home from work, there was poop in the hall. That was a very interesting night...

Thursday: We had breakfast with the Senator in the morning (paid for by him) at which we discussed our time in DC and what we were planning on doing afterwards. It was quite enjoyable. We got to go eat in the cafeteria, where they have some of the best breakfast food I have ever had... it's a good thing that we didn't know about it before, because I think we would have eaten breakfast there every morning... For lunch, the office staff threw us a thank you pizza party. We had to go around and tell all of them what we had been doing and our plans for the rest of our summer. That was also enjoyable!
After lunch, we had a "tour" of the supreme court, which meant that we got to sit in the court chamber and listen to an intern talk about what goes on and the architecture of the building. When we got back, I submitted the remainder of my project stuff to my supervisor. After work, I took the metro out to New Carrollton, where I met Mr. Ferry, who took me to the Ferry residence in Annapolis. We went out to dinner and had an amazing time! I watched Noah eat about 6 or 7 sets of crab legs (eww...). It was really nice to not have to pay for any food all day!

Friday: We decided to get up and watch the sunrise from the Lincoln memorial (like they do in My Date with the President's Daughter). It was beautiful! I'm so glad that we got to do that. We headed off to work and then headed out to the Pentagon for a tour. That was pretty exciting! Our tour guide and his supervisor were both pretty cute (& Jessica fell in love... haha). When we got back to the office, we had to fill out a questionnaire about our experience in the office (which was an amazing one, I can guarantee!). We went out to Matchbox for lunch & had mini burgers and pizza! Then we had to go back to our room and pack so that we could move out in the morning. :( We went out to the airport to pick up Jessica's family and we went out to dinner with them, which was a nice last dinner in DC.

Saturday: We woke up nice and early so that we could meet Cecily and go out to breakfast. We went to this really cute hole-in-the-wall locally owned place and had some delicious food! After we got back, we finished packing, cleaned our room fairly well & then moved out! I took my stuff over to Cec's so that I didn't have to carry it around all day and then went with Jess to turn in our keys and other stuff. I hung out with Cecily and her friend Judy, who was trying to find housing for the fall when she comes to DC for Law school. I got to the airport (kinda late...), bought some food for the plane, and got on the plane and left DC. :( Unfortunately, I am having bad allergies or a cold or something... and flying with those sorts of symptoms is pretty much the worst... So instead of staying the night at Amy's lovely house, she drove me home so that I could sleep in my own bed (because she's awesome like that!)

And that is my DC trip. Wow. I still can't believe that I'm home...

:)