Weekend Fun

In the past year or so, a lot of our friends have moved east. This makes it a lot easier to see them more often, and looking at our calendar for the next few weeks it seems that we will be taking full advantage of that fact.

Last weekend two of our friends came to DC to visit, one from Boston and the other from NYC. Chev was here for a week, training for her summer internship in Nepal, while Alex came down with his girlfriend to spend time with both her friends and his. As our social circles expand, it's harder to carve out time with everyone. We weren't able to just spend an entire weekend lounging around and playing games with our friends this time, but we still got in some quality visiting time.

On Saturday evening, Chev, Zach, and Sarah came out to our house for tacos and board games. We pulled out some old classics, like beer pong, and some even older classics, like Twister. I am not nearly as good at Twister as when I was younger. But the alcohol helped with the falling on my ass part of that game. Both in facilitating it and in dulling the pain.

The next morning we went downtown for mimosas with Zach and Sarah, then Alex and his girlfriend joined us for brunch. At noon, which is less brunch than lunch. But if there are eggs and mimosas, then it still counts. Then we met up with other friends to wander around the zoo for the afternoon.

Visiting the zoo is definitely something I need to do more often. It's free, it's fun, and it's walking distance from nearly all of our friends' places in DC. I haven't been since before I moved to DC, and now I'm kicking myself for letting so many years pass between visits.

A lot of the animals weren't out, probably because we went sort of late and everything was either eating or sleeping. But we did get to hear the lion roar, see the tiger cubs annoy their mom, and watch the otters play. Sadly my favorite animal, the sloth bear, was nowhere to be seen. And the panda was hiding up in a tree. But these are just reasons to go back more often. Wandering around the zoo is a great way to spend the afternoon.