First Week In Washington DC

 Well hello everyone,

I have never done a blog in my life so I'll do my best to keep it up.  But I wanted an easy way to share with everyone what's going on with me in DC! So here goes!
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The National Aquarium

(1/16/13

The National Aquarium was the first stop I made in Washington DC. And despite it's glorified name, the National Aquarium was about as big as my bedroom. Still, I love aquariums so it was fun to walk through, and we got to see the sharks get fed!

Sharks at the National Aquarium

I don't know if you can tell by the pictures here but I love me some yellow fish ( well yellow is my favorite color!). 

But the National Aquarium was just a short stop on  the many things I did in the first week, and definitely a good way to kick of the semester!

My Apartment

 I got all settled in to my beautiful new apartment. It really is a great place. I mean sure there are a few things that need a bit of fixing up, but its about 20x better than a dorm. (and I got the Master bedroom).

My roommates are really nice. The girl I share a bedroom with is really awesome and I'm glad she chose to move into the same room as me.

 The Kitchen is great! Just like being at home! Except I don't trust any of the disgusting dishes they left behind. I went through the cabinets and pulled out all of the dishes I didn't think would kill us, and then washed them each 3 times... They really were that bad..

My side of the Bedroom

                                         MONUMENTS!

 On the first night after moving in to my new apartment a group of WII students took a long (and I mean long) walk to see some of the monuments. Unfortunately I have yet to see the White House. It was very difficult to see behind all the Inaguation set up!

                                      The National Zoo

I was happy to find out that my roommate wanted to go to the zoo just as badly as I did! So we planned to go on Saturday 1/19/13.

 This place was the biggest zoo  have ever seen! They had so many enclosures that my roommate and I were there for over 4 hours and still did not manage to see them all!
 I do have to say I was impressed with the size of the zoo, but knowing where you were going is impossible unless you've been there a million times. we managed to see most of it. But we did see a few of the animals twice.

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Besides the fun stuff, DC is  all about transportation! The Metro system here is really easy and I actually enjoy taking the train everywhere. Its still amazing to me that I am a short train ride away from some really amazing things.

I never thought I would love DC so much, and I cannot wait to start my internship and to go to the inauguration. I still have so much to see, so hopefully I wont have any troubles keeping everyone up to date.

                                                                                                                               Becca