Washington D.C. Day 1

One day in November or December, I forget, Josh came home from work with the exciting news that his boss had suggested he go to a conference in D.C.  He has wanted to go back to D.C. ever since the first time he went there 9 years ago (almost exactly), to ask me to marry him.  He was so excited and I was extremely jealous.  I also have a deep love of D.C. in my heart after living there doing an internship for Senator Bennett.  Well, sweet Josh quickly checked out our frequent flier miles and figured out how I come along!  We planned for me to fly in at the end of his conference and then spend a few days together!  I was so excited!!!!

Right after we got there we headed for the metro and I saw my old friend the fare card machine.  I used to see this guy a lot.  Yes everyone looked at me like I was CRAZY for taking a picture of him, but it has been way too long.

Yet another thoughtful thing Josh did (sorry if this is repetitive for some of you), was to book us a hotel just about right next to where my old apartment was in Crystal City, VA.  Every day we took the same metro stop I used to take 9 years ago.  We actually once saw the Utah State interns getting on the metro (as they had USU sweatshirts on).

I We ate at the Corner Bakery and I FELL IN LOVE with it.  I have been there before, but only for dessert (which wasn't my favorite), so when we ate there I was pleasantly surprised how delicious it was.  As D.C. is 2 hours ahead of Utah, Josh was still working so he spent most of our meal as you see in the picture above, but it was fine as I just basked in the joy of being in D.C. 

This is inside Union Station.  One thing about D.C. that reminded me of London is how beautiful all of the architecture is.  EVERYTHING is beautiful from the ceilings to the light sockets (okay I have no idea if the light sockets are beautiful, but I bet they are). 

When I lived in D.C., I spent a lot of hours in Union Station. 

There is a little Godiva Chocolate shop that is around here and 9 years ago when Josh came to visit he bought me chocolates there, and he did again on this trip.  It was so fun!

One happy girl.  I was giddy the whole time!

Even thought it was pretty cold, Josh was determined to see all of the old places we used to visit.  We went to the building I used to work at.  To the doors that I used to have to come down and pick up the flowers that Josh would sent me (he sent me some amazing flowers). 

Whoops this picture is out of order-this is outside Union Station.

This building is so much more enormous than you can believe.  Most of the time you just see the dome on top.  It is HUGE! 

The Washington Monument. The sky that night was pink and beautiful.  Another thing that was interesting is that there was a helicopter with a search light on it flying all around us.  They did this every night.  I am sure it is party of security. 

The WWII Memorial is new since I had lived there and it was so much fun to see.  There were some wonderful quotes all around it.  Seriously my patriotism was about to burst by the time we left D.C.  I love this place so much and it just made me love our wonderful country all that much more.

A blury pic of the inside of the WWII Memorial. 

The Lincoln Monument.  It is so much further away from Union Station than we remembered, but we were determined to send our little Lincoln a picture of it as he was thrilled we were going to see it. 

Once again the architecture was too amazing not to take pictures of. 

From the side of the Lincoln Memorial looking at the Washington Monument (I told you I went crazy). 

More pics of the beautiful pink sky, and the hot guy I got to spend the whole 4 days with (with the exception of the next day when he was at his conference).  It was so much fun!

The whole time we were there Josh kept saying "I could live here".  While I don't think that is going to happen any time soon, we both have such wonderful memories of this place.