Washington, D.C. + Recently

Helllooo! Today I am here with just a bunch of random things that I've been doing lately...because, right now, I've sunken into a state of study/finals/whatislife and I figured this post > no post.

also FINALS.  ughhh.  i guess it's okay though, because that means Summer is right around the bend, and in a sense, I CAN'T WAIT, and in another way, I'm not quite sure how I'm going to face it.  If everything could've stayed the same, then it would have been so much more easier, but, it hasn't, and I don't know why.  but you got enough that in my last post.  *ahem*

MOVING ON.   Recently, some of my friends (more like a whole bunch of human beings and I was one of them) and me took a bus and went to tour the capital of the United States -- Washington, D.C.  Um, and I use the term "tour" very, VERY lightly...it was not a tour, it was a trip in which you learn to know every nook and cranny of the bus and sleep and do crazy things and take the dumbest selfies/photoshoots and eventually sleep like a rock ON THE BUS.  Key words: ON THE BUS. I repeat: On. The.Bus.   arrrggghhhh.....so in all actuality, half the trip was a bus trip. yay.

 So let me back up: this thing was planned for a long time, and we weren't really planning on changing the date if it was super rainy.  WHY PEOPLE WHY.  They were just really annoyingly wet and damp days, with scattered drizzling and overcast skies.  Anyway, of course you couldn't notice any of this when you get up in a totally different state at an unearthly hour to get ready.  *ahem* So we got on the bus, and the intitial excitement of going on a road trip and bla bla was pretty great.  Sort of.  Because fifteen minutes later: "ARE WE ALMOST THERE YET???"

no.

 Eventually, after a long time, we finally arrived.  *insert squealing* Though, I probably should mention, we did stop in at the  Lincoln Memorial when we finally got to D.C. before lunch.  But it was raining, so we really didn't get to do much. Snapped a few pictures, looked around, and tried Pinterest copy-cat poses.  Quite interesting.  We were also going to head into a few museums then, but the lines were extremely long so we skipped that.  (We also skipped like a bunch of walking tours too earlier.) After lunch, we did one fun thing....we visited the National Air and Space Museum.  And quite honestly, that was really, really fun.  History is something I love learning about, and all those airplanes were pretty cool.  THE BLACKBIRD ♥ (that's like the only airplane ever that I genuinely like :)

Dinner was Chinese and then we headed home, which was a very fun experience.  ha.  Let me just say that the bus ride home was filled with lots of laughter, silliness, singing (which actually went good), and lots of good energy. Honestly, nothing compares with being with a whole bunch of people you know and singing out in the middle of the night in a bus on the highway..... So -- ultimately, even though we didn't get do a lot of what we had planned, it went amazing! (GOD IS GOOD.) And....here are MORE pictures.

  ^^^ The Arlington National Cemetery 

 Iwo Jima

 Lincoln Memorial (it's really annoying because I can't show you half the pictures I took since they have people I know on them :-) 

 Washington Monument

  ^^^^^That was a super cool old time 1920s WWI fighter airplane.  LIKE MODERN YO. 

 ^^^^The Enola Gay (I think, maybe WWII?? I might be wrong on that one.) 

 THE BLACKBIRD ♥ DOES IT NOT LOOK SO FREAKING COOL GUYS. stealth, night, secret missions, incredible photo capabilities.... EEEEEEK.

I also got to try my hand at churning ice cream too for the first time.  I've made homemade ice cream before  in a ice cream maker, but we actually decided to make ice cream with a thing where you manually churn it by turning the handle around and around.  EXHAUSTING.  And guess what? It was a dud.  The ice cream never thickened, and it was a fail :-( xD But oh well, now I think I can cross that off my bucket list. 

So what have you guys been up to lately? I feel like I've lost connection with the blogging world, so hopefully this summer I can do more upkeep on this blog (Hint: AUTUMN, YOU COULD FINISH THE dESIGN.)  What are you going to do this summer?  Does it feel like summer? (We just got a frost last night, so, um, yeah.  That was unexpected.)

have a wonderful day and keep smiling =)
autumn