Memorial Day, Annie and I

Three day weekends are the best.  Especially when one of your very best friends is only a few hours drive away at a rad internship at Highlights magazine in Pennsylvania and decides to drive down in their new car named Jacques to visit you.  Just sayin’.

Since you probably already gathered that this is in fact exactly what happened to me this past Memorial Weekend, I shall provide you with some pictoral entertainment of our adventures.

Disclaimer:  It was super hot and humid when we took all of these pictures.  So, ya.

First stop after the requisite sleeping in on Saturday was the ever wonderful Eastern Market.

With the heat, lemonade became a necessity.  Water is just not as good.  And by good, I mean deliciously happy.

Annie channeled the mystery section at Capitol Books.

We then wandered past pretty, historical buildings.  I may work in the most awesome one.

Mid-Post Review: This person is Annie.  She is really cool.

We visited the Smithsonian American Art Museum.  Not just because it had air conditioning and water fountains, but because we’re cultured people who developed a love art in London together.  The second picture illustrates me wishing someone would teach us how to teleport.

Since that didn’t work , we went to Nando’s and just pretended like we were back in England.  It was cheaper than a plane ticket.

One thing you should know about this city – it’s obsessed with cupcakes. They even have trucks that drive around selling cupcakes ice-cream truck style. But the absolute best place for cupcakes in the district is Baked & Wired.  Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise, because they are just lying.

If you told me that you didn’t want this, I would not believe you.  I mean, look at it.

Because cupcakes are so popular here, we may have had to visit another shop too, though.  The second time we went to the new Sprinkles because the owner is on a show Annie watched.  Personally, Baked & Wired will always win for me, but Sprinkles was super cute too!

Fin.

Birthday Post!

Hey look, I’m posting about my birthday in a timely manner! I think that’s a first. It’s just going to be pictures though, since I’m lazy. It was an excellent 22nd birthday.

First, after class, I went to lunch with my lovely Sam to Tucanos! I forgot to get a pic there (my bad), so here’s a pic of us later:

Then, I went to work, where I celebrated my third birthday at The Daily Universe. Which is always magical. And included a banana birthday cake made by the ever wonderful Kaye!

After work and another class the fabulous Andrea took me out to Costa Vida for some more tasty food and happy chatter:

And then there was a little get together at my place with lovely friends (the rest of the pics will be on facebook, don’t you fret):

There were also lots of delicious cupcakes involved:

Song = Make Me Smile by Chicago

Belated Birthday Post x2

Apparently I am just unable to blog about birthdays when they actually happen. This time it isn’t for me though, it’s for my sister Amber. She had her 19th birthday two weeks ago tomorrow, and it was a lot of fun for me because it’s the first time in four years that we’ve been in the same state on her special day. So I appeared at her door bearing gifts after regional conference (which I feel must have been a birthday present in itself, because a bunch of general authorities including Elder Packer, Elder Holland and Sister Beck were there).

Pictures:

Amber and her friends.

Sneak peak at some of the cupcakes I picked up for her from The Sweet Tooth Fairy (in above box). I’ve never bought so many cupcakes at one time before in my life. It was exhilarating.

In other exciting Amber news, she blogged for the first time in forevers yesterday. I may have been bugging her about it. I never had a blog as a freshman, but I get bored sometimes and I’m pretty sure she’s supposed to be providing me entertainment.

Can I also just say one of the best things about having my sister at BYU (other than the obvious reasons, of course) is that she will come to the newsroom where I work with her magic money card (a.k.a. student dining plan) and buy me treats from the vending machine? Yeeesssssss.

Georgetown in Provo

Apparently I wasn’t the only one having D.C. withdrawals, because a group of us got together and ordered a dozen cupcakes from Georgetown Cupcake and had them shipped here overnight… Don’t judge. Shipping isn’t that bad when you divide it by 12. And it was totally worth it.

Evidence:

Delicious Friday.

Withdrawal

I may have become a little too addicted to cupcakes and frozen custard and sugary goodness in D.C. and now I’m having major cravings. I don’t think it was really my fault, with Georgetown Cupcake and Baked & Wired and Dickey’s a two second walk away. They even had cupcake trucks go around like ice cream trucks to the parks. Let’s just say I’m suffering the consequences now…

I mean, could you resist this?

Especially when you walked by this every day like four times because the shop was the next door over from your office?

7:58 p.m.

I’ve relocated and it’s much better. I’m on the second floor of the Georgetown Barnes and Noble next to a giant window where I can see lots o’ people shopping and there is free wi-fi. I also picked up a lemon-raspberry cupcake from Baked and Wired on the way. Just thought you’d want to know about this exciting development. I haven’t, however, got much more done on my paper. Maybe it would help if I stopped blogging…

Decisions

I hate to make them. A couple of weekends ago I went to the Sweet Tooth Fairy and couldn’t decide which flavor of cupcake I wanted to buy, so I bought four. Then it took me another ten minutes to decide which one to eat first.

I feel like college is just a time full of needing to make decisions, and I’m in the middle of making a bunch of them right now. I’m not exactly a fan of it. I think part of the problem is that I don’t know what I want. But I’ll figure it out eventually.

In the meantime, I do know that I am still in love with this song: When I Go, by Slow Club.