A Short Trip Around The Nation's Capital

In order to help us prepare us for big city living and force us to get to know each other our program director sent us out on an all day picture scavenger hunt of the city. I am including the highlights.

The set-up: The 14 of us split into 4 groups. My group included Emily and Johnny. We were then given a list of sites that had point values, a whole evening to plan, and a one day metro pass! Emily was our unofficial team leader and did pretty much all of the planning and energizing of the team. But morning of it turned out Emily had to stay around the house for an interview so Johnny and I were left to fend for ourselves until Emily came back at the end to save us.


I guess we will work backwards because I do not know how to move the pictures. This was our last stop. Ben's Chili Bowl in the Shaw neighborhood. This is an up and coming diverse neighborhood that many of Obama's new staffers have moved to. Mr. Obama ate here just the other day!

Right next to Ben's Chili bowl is the Lincoln Theatre. That teddy bear in the middle acted as Emily's stand in. If you look closely you will see that it has a name tag and everything.

Emily's Triumphant return to the fold in front of the African American Civil War Memorial.


Johnny and stand in Emily in the Panda House at the National Zoo!

Hanging out with stand in Emily on Embassy Row with Ghandi.