A brief Thanksgiving

I apologize for not having kept up with my blog over the past week. With my family and a friend from college visiting me for Thanksgiving, I have been kept pretty busy.

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So to sum up my past week, I hurried to finish a much procrastinated paper on Tuesday. Ironically, I had decided to write about North Korea before there was any bombing. So as I was finishing my paper, I had to keep amending the history in order to keep it as up-to-date as possible. That evening, I took the metro to DCA to pick up my friend Alyse. Due to unfortunate timing, we would not be able to see each other at all during the coming year, save this Thanksgiving. I was elated to see her at the airport.

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The next morning, we got up, got ready for the day, and headed into the district. Before lunch with Aaron, we saw the White House, the top of the Old Post Office Tower, and the American History Museum. After lunch we headed to Georgetown, where Alyse was able to experience Georgetown shopping and cupcakes.

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Thursday we got ready, and I made my favorite Thanksgiving dinner dish – cranberry marshmallow salad. Around noon, we went to the airport to pick up my family, who had arrived over 30 minutes early. Their airline luck would later run out, as their return flight was delayed an hour. But later Thursday evening, we had dinner with my Aunt Bonnie, Uncle Ray, and their son Todd.

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The next morning we made our way to the Newseum, Ben’s Chili Bowl, the ice skating rink in the Sculpture Gardens, and Pizzeria Orso, which had apparently been rated as the best pizza place near the district.

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Saturday, Alyse, Ray, Lisa, and I got a tour of the National Cathedral. Afterward, we picked up Henry and went to have lunch at Five Guys. From there, Ray dropped us off at the Holocaust Memorial Museum. While Henry got a bit of running in on the National Mall, Alyse, my mom , and I saw the National Archives. Then we picked up William, went to the Kennedy Center for the night’s Millennium Stage performance featuring Chelsea Green and had dinner at Two Amy’s.

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Sunday started with breakfast with Ray and Bonnie, after which we went to Arlington National Cemetery to see Lee’s house and the grave of my great-great uncle, Walter Darling.

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Finally, after what seemed like not more than a day’s time, we arrived, once again, at the airport, concluding what had been a brief but extremely enjoyable few days with family and a friend.