Thai food night :)

So tonight Kristyn, Allie and I went to Mai Thai in Dupont on 19th Street NW. It was delicious! We got a White Zinfindel wine and then steamed dumplings as an appitizer. For my meal I got Sweet Honey Chicken, Kristyn got Drunken Noodles (which were super spicy even when mild), and Allie got Shrimp and Asparagus. It was soooo good. And the service was super fast. We ordered and within 15 minutes the food was ready. And it tasted really fresh. I would highly recommend this restaurant to anyone.
So this was the second stop on our cultural food tour. First Indian now Thai. I don't know what will be next but we're thinking either Moroccan or Ethiopian.
Anyones welcomed to join!

Pumpkin Picking

Yesterday my roommates and I went to get some pumpkins to carve for Halloween next week. We went to a place in Woodbine, MD called Larriland Farms. We each got a pumpkin, got one for Kristyn, who was in NY this weekend and took some pictures. Great day :)

I GOT A JOB!!

So guess who got a job! I did! Ahhhh! I'm so excited!
I'm working for Matchbox Restaurants as the assistant to one of the four owners/Manager of Maintenance and Construction. We haven't come up with a formal title for me yet but I love my job. Right now I'm mostly helping my boss, Mark, around the office filing, organizing his emails, cleaning up the papers everywhere, stuff like that. But I got to order my desk today and he's letting me design a feature that's going to hang from the new Rockville Matchbox. How awesome is that? Ahhh so pumped.
The pay is okay but in 90 days he'll review my work and hopefully raise my pay by half of what I'm making now. Which means I'll be making almost 19 an hour. Which is so great!
My boss also wants to get me an iPhone. I'm so glad things are finally all fitting into place for me. Now I just need to get into Graduate school and life will be complete. Two weeks and I will find out. Ugh I'm gonna puke. Night!

My Bucket List

- See Hudson River Park bench

- Skydive

- Take a cooking class

- Try at least 30 different country's food (Irish, Spanish, Italian, Mexican, German, Finnish, American, Greek, Indian, Thai so far)

- Go camping

- Go to a Renaissance Festival

- Take flying lessons

- Drive down the pacific coast highway

- Stand on the top of the St. Louis Arch

- See Philip Johnson's Glass house

- Shoot a gun

- Walk across the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco 

- Drive across the United States

- Hike up to Machu Picchu

- Go to Oktoberfest in Munich, Germany

- See the giant spoon and cherry statue in Minneapolis

- Go on a Frank Lloyd Wright tour in Chicago

- Go on a cruise to Alaska

- Do the Trans Siberian Express from St. Petersburg to Shanghai

- Go on a safari in Africa

- See the New Amsterdam Pavilion in NYC (Completed October 3rd, 2010)

- Go scuba diving in the Coral Reef

- Walk the Great Wall of China

- Learn to base jump

- See the Redwood trees

- See the pyramids

- Go white water rafting

- See the grand canyon

- See Oslo Opera building in Norway

- See New River Gorge Bridge and festival (Completed October 16th, 2010)

- Ride in a Hot Air Balloon

- Swim in all 7 seas (Mediterranean, Adriatic, Black, Red, Arabian, Persian, Caspian)

- Go to all 7 continents (North America, Europe, South America, Africa, Asia, Australia, Antarctica)

Bridge Day in West Virginia

So this weekend I decided to accomplish another goal on my bucket list; to go see the Bridge Day Festival in Fayetteville, West Virginia at the New River Gorge Bridge which is the largest steel suspension bridge in the country. It was the biggest in the world until Japan made the largest. Oh well. But this festival was awesome! It would've been cooler if I had friends come with me but all mine were busy this Saturday so I went alone.
There were food stands everywhere! And the food was amazing. At least it smelled amazing. There were ribs and chili every 10 feet. They even had frozen, dipped in chocolate cheesecake on a stick. Now I truly understand why so many people in West Virginia are overweight. There was also free face painting with a Bible story. Lord haha...literally.
The best part of the festival though were the base jumpers. For all of you that don't know what base jumping is its when people jump off bridges with nothing but a parachute and after a few seconds of free falling they pull the parachute. It has to be the most incredible feeling ever. That's something I want to do someday. But over 100 people came to base jump at this festival. I was in complete awe. Two lanes of the road on the bridge were closed for people and the base jumpers. The other two lanes were for buses transporting the jumpers to the jumping platform. It was so much fun though. And everyone in West Virginia are so nice.
I really want to live out there one day. I don't know why for sure but I like the idea of having a lot of land and building my future house on it. I like the idea of being able to see my neighbors house in the distance but not being too close. I love the landscape out there and the fact that you can drive 70 mph on their highways. The only bad thing Rob pointed out was their school system sucks. But I'm sure there has to be a good school in the area. When I go land hunting I'll make sure to consider the school district. Other than that...it's perfect!
Well anyway, I totally recommend Bridge Day to anyone looking to have a good time the 3rd weekend of October every year. So much fun!

Tonic and Albert Einstein...always a good evening

So I used to work at this restaurant called Tonic at Quigley's Pharmacy in Foggy Bottom. Its a GW University restaurant and its mostly professionals from the K Street area and GW students. Tonight Allie, Kristyn and I went to Tonic for dinner since they had never experienced it. It was a great success. We sat on the patio which was perfect for people watching and chatting. They had a server I didn't recognize wait on us and he was really fun.

Afterwards I brought them to see the Albert Einstein Memorial which is only 4 blocks from the restaurant right across from the Lincoln Memorial. The great thing about this monument is that its not very popular because most people have never heard of it which means you are free to chill there for a while with no interruptions. Also if you stand in the middle of the universe on the floor and face the statue of Einstein you can hear an echo if you talk. So clever :)

Field of Screams

So Friday night October 8th, my two roomies and I met with my ex-boyfriend to go to Field of Dreams in Olney, Maryland. This is my second time going to this and I have to say I was even more scared than the first if thats possible. First of all, you have to sign a waver before going in. That's when you know it is going to petrify you. And I am a big baby. I am literally frightened of anything scary so this was very hard for me. Its a bit pricy $20 to do the haunted trail but totally worth every penny. What the haunted trail is is a 25-30 minute walk through the woods with periodical stops in these wooden huts that had really scary shit in them.
Probably the best part of this trip was my roommates and my reaction to everything. My tactic is to scream bloody murder, Kristyn likes to duck and run, and Allie freezes. Not a very good combination but hysterical all the same. Rob (my ex) isn't scared of much so most of the time he laughed. The only thing he got scared of was the two chainsaw men chasing us through the woods. But I mean come on, who isn't programmed to run like hell if a chainsaw is coming at you?

Overall totally fun. Kristyn would say otherwise. I think her exact words were, "I will never do that again. Far too scared." Haha but I still recommend this if you're looking for a good scare in the DC or Maryland area in the month of October and have $20 to drop.

My New Food Challenge

So my roommates and I decided we are going to try a different countries food once a month (maybe less depending on budgets and free time). This past Thursday Oct 7th we went for Indian. Two out of my 3 roommates had tried India before but Kristyn and I were newbies. We went to a restaurant in Dupont Circle in Washington DC (since that’s where I live) called Heritage India. It was so much fun! We each got two tapas (spanish i know…a bit confused at first) and then split them in fours so we could try everything. Such a good idea! That way we got to try so many different plates for under $30 bucks. Being college graduate students we are on a strict budget. We also had a bottle of wine and they surprisingly had nothing from India. Now I don’t know if India produces wine but I figured they might have one wine on the menu from India. We were mistaken so we stuck to Italian wine because you can’t really go wrong. Afterwards we had our picture taken with the Buddha and got Krispy Kreme for dessert. Always a good way to end the evening.

I would definitely have Indian food again. Some could be a bit spicy but definitely not overwhelming. I would also definitely recommend Heritage India. Really great service and a very cool environment, but I would expect nothing less from Dupont.