History Club in DC :)
Mar. 6th, 2011 11:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
csi_sanders1129So, I was in DC most of yesterday with the History Club. It did involve getting up at 7am on a Saturday, a time of day which should not even exist. Walking to our meet-up spot was creeptastic, I saw one person on campus the whole way there. This palce is deserted on weekends as it is, but at 7am there is no one.
There were 15 of us total, split between 3 cars. Stopped long enough to get gas/McDonalds and then started the ~1.5 hour drive to the metro stop. Our car (five girls), spent the time blasting and singing along to awesome 90's tunes. All in all we got into DC around noon, right outside all the Smithsonian stuff. We all kind of split up from there. My self-assigned group of varying numbers of people looked around a few exhibits in the National American History Museum and then they all decided that we'd go see the Botanical Gardens (all the way at the other end of the National Mall, of course). From there we had plans to check out all the monuments and stuff and maybe the White House, but after the Gardens we were all starving so we got awesome (but expensive) sandwiches. Did take some pics in front of the Capitol Building and some other various statues around.
Groups kind of merged and redivided following lunch. Mine ended up giving up on the monuments/White House, and going to the Natural History Museum. Walked around there for like hours. (One thing that is cool about going to museums with fellow history majors is that we're all dorks and we all know random facts that we can share with each other). By that point we were all pretty dead on our feet and we were having communication issues with the rest of the group, so after some debate we decided it was time to go. Met up back at the Metro and (eventually) headed out. By 9:00 we were about an hour away from Frostburg and decided it was time for dinner. Ended up at TGI Fridays which entailed lots of awesomeness and picturing taking and yummy food. It was also someone's Birthday within our little group, so he got the humiliating serenade by the staff. What I got came with dessert which amounted to delicious cheescake that I just ate a little while ago. Nom nom nom.
We ended up not getting back to campus until like midnight. I was also in sleep!fail mode and left my phone in my friend's car when I zombie-walked back into my dorm, so I was awake and in panic mode for like an hour and a half before I finally gave up for the night and crashed. Got it back like 3 hours ago when I adventured on a ~2 mile walk through the snow to go fetch it from said friend's house. I took a loooooong way by accident. That trip also enabled me to get some space from the roommate who didn't even leave the room once today and my tolerance level was already at a low breaking point since I was in phone-withdrawal.
Now, though, I am content. And sorting through the bazillion and seven facebook picture tagging notifications I have been getting all day. O.o
There's like 3-4 inches of snow on the ground, but I think it's pretty much done now, so we probably won't be late tomorrow.
There were 15 of us total, split between 3 cars. Stopped long enough to get gas/McDonalds and then started the ~1.5 hour drive to the metro stop. Our car (five girls), spent the time blasting and singing along to awesome 90's tunes. All in all we got into DC around noon, right outside all the Smithsonian stuff. We all kind of split up from there. My self-assigned group of varying numbers of people looked around a few exhibits in the National American History Museum and then they all decided that we'd go see the Botanical Gardens (all the way at the other end of the National Mall, of course). From there we had plans to check out all the monuments and stuff and maybe the White House, but after the Gardens we were all starving so we got awesome (but expensive) sandwiches. Did take some pics in front of the Capitol Building and some other various statues around.
Groups kind of merged and redivided following lunch. Mine ended up giving up on the monuments/White House, and going to the Natural History Museum. Walked around there for like hours. (One thing that is cool about going to museums with fellow history majors is that we're all dorks and we all know random facts that we can share with each other). By that point we were all pretty dead on our feet and we were having communication issues with the rest of the group, so after some debate we decided it was time to go. Met up back at the Metro and (eventually) headed out. By 9:00 we were about an hour away from Frostburg and decided it was time for dinner. Ended up at TGI Fridays which entailed lots of awesomeness and picturing taking and yummy food. It was also someone's Birthday within our little group, so he got the humiliating serenade by the staff. What I got came with dessert which amounted to delicious cheescake that I just ate a little while ago. Nom nom nom.
We ended up not getting back to campus until like midnight. I was also in sleep!fail mode and left my phone in my friend's car when I zombie-walked back into my dorm, so I was awake and in panic mode for like an hour and a half before I finally gave up for the night and crashed. Got it back like 3 hours ago when I adventured on a ~2 mile walk through the snow to go fetch it from said friend's house. I took a loooooong way by accident. That trip also enabled me to get some space from the roommate who didn't even leave the room once today and my tolerance level was already at a low breaking point since I was in phone-withdrawal.
Now, though, I am content. And sorting through the bazillion and seven facebook picture tagging notifications I have been getting all day. O.o
There's like 3-4 inches of snow on the ground, but I think it's pretty much done now, so we probably won't be late tomorrow.
