Things I both intentionally and unintentionally did during my earliest days as a new DMV area resident…
- Visited the National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Tried a week of CorePower Yoga classes
- Fell wholeheartedly in love with The Coffee Bar
- Missed my metro stop twice
- Attended a panel discussion of the intersection of adolescent mental health and gender at the International Center for Research on Women
- Spotted someone I knew downtown
- Paddleboated at the Jefferson Memorial
- Enjoyed D.C. Restaurant Week
- Viewed the great American eclipse at the National Air and Space Museum
- Did homeless outreach with Capital Life Church
- Developed “the Garden Route” on a morning run: six gardens plus a swing past the National Museum of African Art in an hour’s run
- Rode the Smithsonian Carousel
- Read every events calendar that I saw or heard of and got overwhelmed by all of the options
- Attended my first Nationals baseball game
- Visited a trendy downtown watering hole on Friday night with my boy
- Discovered that Miss America 2018 lived in my building last year
- Ran “stadiums” on the Lincoln Memorial steps
- Beat the morning reveal of the daily national front pages at the Newseum
- Volunteered at the 202 Arts and Music Festival
- Attended my first navy football game
- Was a minority at the grocery store
- Got invited to dinner in the Trump International Hotel
- Did two group workouts with the DC Road Runners
- Got honked at in rush hour traffic
- Joined the PRSA-NCC pro-bono committee
- Crammed through a partially dysfunctional metro door into a crowd of humans at rush hour
- Visited Eastern Market for lunch
- Heard a private sneak preview of a National Archives lecture
- Ate a sushi burrito, Afghan food, a rapidly melting snow cone and most importantly, Sweetgreen
- Hit the last Sculpture Garden jazz concert of the summer
It's an interesting and busy place and I'm thankful for the opportunity to move here and live downtown.
You've been busy! :)
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