Back to D.C. Twenty-Ten.

After falling for a hoax for an apartment back in February, I finally landed my very own apartment in D.C. where mom helped me get settled in last weekend. The rent is more than the space itself but the place isn’t all that bad.

I have a studio apartment, but it isn’t like a typical studio that you might be thinking. My bedroom/living room/ dining room all connect; however, I have an entryway closet, a HUGE walk in closet and a galley kitchen. Oh and a bathroom off the closet area. It’s actually quite enough space for me and if needed two people could live here comfortably.

Since it’s a studio.. mom and I did a little rearranging before moving in all my suitcases. We separated the open area to make it more distinct areas like “a living room” and a bedroom” etc. It turned out nice. We paid extra to have it come fully furnished. To our surprise they set it all up for us too. We came ready to unpack boxes of dishes and towels, but it was already done for us!

Here is the apartment!

Since move in was so easy, mom and I took a little road trip. To my surprise we ended up in Maryland one day at the Chesapeake Bay. We crossed the Chesapeake Bay Bridge which is the longest bridge in the world. That was pretty cool. Then we traveled almost 2 hours to the Atlantic Ocean! My favorite place in the entire world! It was cold but I still enjoyed it.



On the way back we tried to swing by Iwo Jima at night, the one monument here that you cannot see by bus or subway--- and it happens to be the one I am most fascinated by.

I finally picked up Iwo Jima on the Garmin so we hit “GO!” little did we know we it would take us over an hour to arrive 1.4 miles. Every time we went right it said recalculating. When we went left it recalculated. We made four attempts at the same off ramp and when we finally did it right! It said RECALCULATING!

It was frustrating. So frustrating that mom is now famous by saying this quote out of pure anger, “Why doesn’t she stop f***ing texting and tell us where to go!”

Yes, that really happened.. and it wasn’t a joke she was serious. I couldn’t help but laugh..

But, we finally made it!

And we successfully made it back the next day too!

Overall what did I learn while my mom was here?

Well, I learned that you can’t sight seeing in D.C. when driving a car because the traffic drives too fast. If you slow down to look or figure out where you are, you get honked at.

I also learned that you can drive faster than a G.P.S.

All in all, you have to drive fast to avoid getting honked at which makes a G.P.S. not useful which means you will always be lost! (Welcome to my life!) Maybe take the bus?

Work starts tomorrow… Welcome summer!