Well, here is my first update for y'all. I'm all settled in (mostly) even tho I still need a few things. But they have to be creative because there's no more room in my room!!
Anyway, our journey to DC started a little later than normal and was totally uneventful until we hit NJ. Even crossing the Tappen Zee Bridge wasn't all that backed up.
There we hit every ounce of Shore traffic we could possibly hit. It took like 4 hours. Ie, it was miserable. Once we were through Jersey, however things went smoothly. We made it through Delaware (which takes all of twenty minutes) and into MD. And the Chesapeake. I LOVE THE CHESAPEAKE. There, you take a cool bridge over some body of water to get to the southern side (the beltway, maybe?).
Once we were over that, we headed to the DC metro area. Where we hit MORE traffic. We were on the seventh or eight hour by this point...shoot us all.
We finally hit DC where it took us a very short time to get to my place. Albeit much later than I was expecting. We moved a bunch of stuff up to my room, and decided to go to Ikea since Jenna was there and needed to go too.
The rest of the weekend was spent with unpacking all my crap and painting my room. Its nice and blue and my bed is adorable and I love my apartment. However, it is low on space, but I can't really do anything about that. As Steve says, thats the price you pay for paying less than $1400 to live in DC. In addition to unpacking, we got to show my dad around some sights since I have no idea when he will be able to get back down here. All in all, it was a good (if busy) weekend.
And now I've spent the week doing nothing but unpacking a little bit more or trying to organize my room. I met up with another museum studies person to explore a little bit and we went to the zoo! They have really awesome animals there, I loved it. I also met up with a girl who also graduated from BU Archy and we had lunch and walked to the Capitol Building and the Library of Congress. Really cool. I'm so excited to be living near all these national monuments!
DC is an awesome place, and I'm pumped to be here. Now if only I would get a job!
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