Following a long and tiring week at work juggling between two internships coding emails and researching special reports for the Jordanian embassy, it was nice to see some good friends in DC. My friends Jonathan PO’14 and Madison that goes to American University came out to DC to visit the area and meet up with friends, and we all had a pretty eventful weekend. After work on Thursday, I met up with Jonathan at the Rosslyn metro stop in Virginia, and we walked over the bridge to Georgetown to catch a bus home. The view from the bridge was the perfect way to welcome someone into the capital as you could see planes flying directly overhead into Reagan Airport and watch people kayak on the Potomac River, which was underneath us from the bridge. It didn’t take Jonathan long to figure out how preppy Georgetown was judging from the people there, and even tourists.
On our way to my house, we stopped by 7-11 to get free Slurpee’s. Having missed it in the past, I made sure I marked my calendar this year, even if I was getting a small $1.29 cup of Slurpee for free. As my luck would have it, today was also the first day of Ramadan, the month where Muslims fast from sunrise to sunset in order to sympathize with the less fortunate and to learn patience. You’d think that I wouldn’t get a Slurpee because of that, but nope, I got one and put it right in my fridge to eat at sunset. Once Madison came by my house in Tenleytown, I gave them a quick tour of the place and we all headed out into the city to catch up, and for Madison and Jonathan to get to know each other. We went back to Georgetown, and being the one that knows DC the best, although Madison goes to college in DC, I was a tour guide. We went to Georgetown’s campus and went to the roof of some dorms that had a great view of Rosslyn and the Washington Monument barely visible. Of course we took pictures, then headed to the waterfront.
Since the waterfront is the place to go during the summer months and for people who never been there, it was a nice scenic setting to just hang out and talk with fountains and the Potomac next to us. Sunset was at 8:36 that night, so both Jonathan and Madison waited to eat dinner with me, which I appreciated. As sunset got closer and I got more excited to eat, we headed to Mr. Smith’s of Georgetown, which was both a restaurant and a piano bar, to grab dinner. As usual, I order a pasta dish, and couldn’t have been happier when I took my first bite after not eating anything all day. We then headed back to the house, introduced them to my housemates, and called it a night after Madison left to go to her friend’s house where she was staying.