D.C.

Wes and I continued what seems to be a tradition of meeting some of our closest friends in fun locations (Barbados, New York City, Key West...) at the end of July when we went to visit my best friend Ms. Holly Immler in D.C.! Holly has been working for National Geographic and she lives in walking distance, amazing, to basically everything you would want to see in D.C., so Wes and I decided it was the perfect time to go for a little visit. I had never been to D.C. before and now I want to go back more than anything. We didn't have the chance to see everything we wanted to see, but we still had a great time!

Wes and I actually met in D.C. on Friday night because I am currently on rotations (outside of Pittsburgh) and Wes is working in our lovely home of Lewisburg. I left straight from the hospital after a hysterectomy - performed, not received - and Wes and I literally drove up to Holly's house within 1 minute of each other. Is that weird or what? AND there were 2 parking spots right in front of her house. We're taking Georgetown off of M street people; this was a miracle. Jake, Holly's fiance flew in from good ol' Dallas, TX to also meet up. So fun! It was already late Friday night so the only thing we could possibly do was go out, shucks.

I love my husband to death, but he can not for the life of him keep his eyes open for pictures. Really, if there was a huge purple monster with sharp talons threatening his life unless he opened his eyes for the camera he would be a goner.

This picture probably makes no sense to anyone else, but I had to include it. This is most definitely what Holly's children will dress like. Just sayin'... distant future Golvach family.

...again with the eyes. Hehe.

The next day we went out and about to go sight seeing. We spent a lot of our time at the free Smithsonian Museums. Here we are in front of the Washington Monument! It was about a jillion degrees out.

We couldn't not see the White house so that was one of our next stops. Wes really wanted to jump the fence and run onto the lawn. I really didn't want my husband to be shot. I won.

My God, are his eyes open?!

Oh wait, that's what I thought.

Really, I don't know if it is because of the movies or what, but I thought that this guy was going to be a lot bigger than he actually was. Still impressive though.

Overall, we had a great weekend, but we will surely return to D.C. again with a camera in tow at all times. There are still so many things to do and visit.