DeVol Ladies in DC

Well, this is my first non-introductory post! As I mentioned before, I am not sure why people think this new chapter in my life is going to be so great (I am not saying it isn't going to be good, but I do think it is going to include a lot of challenges). One of the reasons for my thinking is that I miss my Malone friends like crazy! I wish we could all be back in DeVol Hall living together. For just over 24 hours, I got the great privilege of seeing three of my dear friends: Lindsay, Colleen, and Liz! The braved massively congested traffic to make it into DC to visit!

It was one of the best times I have had since graduation! We ate Indian food at a local restaurant (which was a pretty hilarious experience of Lindsay giving verbal affirmation to the waiter and us catching up). Then we headed on the metro over to our old friend Barrack's house (no dog sightings). We ventured to the National Mall to see the monuments where I gave my famous night tour- there is no need to pay that hefty night tour price when you have me! After having some serious discussion about how much war hurts those who die and those who survive and trying to remember our American history, we ventured to the metro station to head back home. But when at 10:04 we arrived at our station, a sign appeared explaining that it closed at 10pm on the weekends. We decided to walk the other 10 or so blocks back to the house (rather than walk about 5 blocks to the next station and about 6 blocks from the closest station to the house). After a brief trot, we made it to the reflecting pool in front of the Capitol building where we hung upside down on the ledge looking at the rotunda and the night sky. We laughed! It was great! We discussed who the lady on top of the Capitol building was, considering Sacagawea as a possibility! The great irony, we decided, being that America has a long, tumultuous history with American Indians. As well, we decided that she was the ultimate working mom- carrying a baby on her back while leading Lewis and Clark (if we remember our history correctly)! We arrived back at the house after a brief hold up at the Supreme Court to let a crane move some stuff that might have fallen on us if we kept walking (according to the construction guy).

It was a wonderful visit! It made me long to be with my friends from Malone again and reminded me of who they inspired me to be over the years! It seems that we are all struggling to carve out lives after graduation, but for a brief time the four of us laughed and played in our nation's capitol like it was 1995! (I don't really know what that means, but it sounds good!)