Hello all!
Here’s my update!
Last weekend we went to Baltimore on Saturday (1.16.10)! We took the greyhound bus there, and then grabbed a taxi once we got into the city. From there we saw Charm City Cakes (the famous bakery as seen on Food Network that has produced everything from amazing wedding cakes to the Harry Potter movie premiere cakes). By the way, in order to have a cake made by them – the minimum dollar amount they request is $1,000. Nonetheless, they are famous because of Food Network and we had to visit the location!!
After leaving Charm City Cakes, we walked to Johns Hopkins (literally around the corner) and took a couple pictures of the campus. Then, we ran into these civil war people who were celebrating the day the states stopped fighting? Don’t quote me I have no idea…we just liked their cool outfits. After taking some pictures with them, we headed to Edgar Allen Poe’s grave at Westminister Church.
We then headed to Blue Moon Café to eat some famous captain crunch crusted French toast. AMAZINGGG!! And their hobo eggs were quite good as well. We found that restaurant on Food Network as well, but the problem we didn’t realize was that it closed at 2 pm! Luckily, we were able to order food to go right before they closed :) and we ate it on the harbor with the pigeons.
Since we spent the whole day there, we decided to walk around the harbor a little bit more and visited all of the shops around the area. Apparently, purple was the color for Baltimore because everyone was wearing it. We soon figured out that the major team in town was the RAVENS – and the whole city seemed to be in crazy support. We saw the amazing mall across the street from the harbor, and ate fish and chips before we left. Soo greasy but good!
1.17.10
On Sunday we decided to walk around the Dupont area because I needed to go to the AT&T store and Michelle needed a new umbrella..haha so much for Macy’s umbrellas! After we did that we went to the National Archives, ate an amazing potbelly’s sandwich and CHOCOLATE MALT! It’s my favorite DC food so far :) We visited the spy museum after, and learned a lot about the history of spies and even simple little facts – like that Queen Elizabeth the 1st had a gown made for her with ears and eyes all over the fabric because she believed that spying on her husband and other people in court was a necessary part of her life. Shortly thereafter Patricia, Michelle and I visited Chinatown to see Avatar in 3D. What a good movie!! I was so amazed.
1.18.10
That Monday was the MLK holiday so we got the day off of work. Yippee! We went to Union station to see what shops were there, and then we went to Chinatown again to check out what other restaurants/stores were in the area. Unfortunately, there weren’t really any Chinese-owned businesses, and it was a pretty small block. I guess it just doesn’t compare to Temple City or LA’s Chinatown…
1.21.10
We celebrated Michelle’s birthday early on Thursday and went to a Mexican restaurant in the Dupont area, which was surprisingly really good for East Coast Mexican food. We ordered really good margarita’s! I got a frozen strawberry one :)
1.22.10
On Friday we went to our seminar very briefly, and then headed to the Pentagon for the tour! It was kind of disappointing but still cool, I just really expected to see more than office spaces and hallways with paintings on them. When I asked our tour guide if all 5 floors of the Pentagon were the same, he said “uhhh yes…for the most part” but I didn’t believe him. So, hopefully the pentagon’s lower levels are pretty cool and secretly super technologically driven with funky walls and major military rooms. We went back to the Newseum afterward, where I saw Pulitzer Prize winning photographs and a piece of the Berlin wall. It’s a 6 floor museum with wayyy too much to see in one day!
Here’s my update!
Last weekend we went to Baltimore on Saturday (1.16.10)! We took the greyhound bus there, and then grabbed a taxi once we got into the city. From there we saw Charm City Cakes (the famous bakery as seen on Food Network that has produced everything from amazing wedding cakes to the Harry Potter movie premiere cakes). By the way, in order to have a cake made by them – the minimum dollar amount they request is $1,000. Nonetheless, they are famous because of Food Network and we had to visit the location!!
After leaving Charm City Cakes, we walked to Johns Hopkins (literally around the corner) and took a couple pictures of the campus. Then, we ran into these civil war people who were celebrating the day the states stopped fighting? Don’t quote me I have no idea…we just liked their cool outfits. After taking some pictures with them, we headed to Edgar Allen Poe’s grave at Westminister Church.
We then headed to Blue Moon Café to eat some famous captain crunch crusted French toast. AMAZINGGG!! And their hobo eggs were quite good as well. We found that restaurant on Food Network as well, but the problem we didn’t realize was that it closed at 2 pm! Luckily, we were able to order food to go right before they closed :) and we ate it on the harbor with the pigeons.
Since we spent the whole day there, we decided to walk around the harbor a little bit more and visited all of the shops around the area. Apparently, purple was the color for Baltimore because everyone was wearing it. We soon figured out that the major team in town was the RAVENS – and the whole city seemed to be in crazy support. We saw the amazing mall across the street from the harbor, and ate fish and chips before we left. Soo greasy but good!
1.17.10
On Sunday we decided to walk around the Dupont area because I needed to go to the AT&T store and Michelle needed a new umbrella..haha so much for Macy’s umbrellas! After we did that we went to the National Archives, ate an amazing potbelly’s sandwich and CHOCOLATE MALT! It’s my favorite DC food so far :) We visited the spy museum after, and learned a lot about the history of spies and even simple little facts – like that Queen Elizabeth the 1st had a gown made for her with ears and eyes all over the fabric because she believed that spying on her husband and other people in court was a necessary part of her life. Shortly thereafter Patricia, Michelle and I visited Chinatown to see Avatar in 3D. What a good movie!! I was so amazed.
1.18.10
That Monday was the MLK holiday so we got the day off of work. Yippee! We went to Union station to see what shops were there, and then we went to Chinatown again to check out what other restaurants/stores were in the area. Unfortunately, there weren’t really any Chinese-owned businesses, and it was a pretty small block. I guess it just doesn’t compare to Temple City or LA’s Chinatown…
1.21.10
We celebrated Michelle’s birthday early on Thursday and went to a Mexican restaurant in the Dupont area, which was surprisingly really good for East Coast Mexican food. We ordered really good margarita’s! I got a frozen strawberry one :)
1.22.10
On Friday we went to our seminar very briefly, and then headed to the Pentagon for the tour! It was kind of disappointing but still cool, I just really expected to see more than office spaces and hallways with paintings on them. When I asked our tour guide if all 5 floors of the Pentagon were the same, he said “uhhh yes…for the most part” but I didn’t believe him. So, hopefully the pentagon’s lower levels are pretty cool and secretly super technologically driven with funky walls and major military rooms. We went back to the Newseum afterward, where I saw Pulitzer Prize winning photographs and a piece of the Berlin wall. It’s a 6 floor museum with wayyy too much to see in one day!
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