My Exciting Weekend

This past weekend was rather busy for me. On Saturday a group of us got together and went to the National Zoo. It was an experience. Granted I have been to a few zoos before, but this was the first zoo that had a panda!! And it was so cool because the panda was actually eating when we were there, which is surprising because I believe it's something like 18 hours a day a panda spends sleeping. Other than the panda we did see all the other animals that we could. Although it was such a hot day, like 91 degrees but we kept hydrated and managed to get through the whole zoo by about 2pm (we arrived at like 11:30ish) so luckily we finished before the hottest part of the day. After the zoo everyone came back and napped, then just hung around here for dinner and such. Burke and I walked over to a nearby Five Guys and got some burgers, it was good, although we were planning on another restuarant, but everything in the surrounding area was already closed and it was only like 7pm on a Saturday, which is strange. So Saturday was a long but very good day.


Sunday also was a busy day, because we planned to stop by the National Portrait Gallery because there was an artist there working on a piece for the Girl Scouts of America, since it is there centinial anniversary. Sadly we did not see that, although we did see plenty of girl scouts, some more interested in the gallery than others, hahaha. Anyways, we explored the Portrait Gallery and saw some incredible work. There was even an exhibit called the Art of Video Games (I think Tyler and Tommy would have appreciated it) although they may not know of the earlier video games, pre-Playstation. We explored that whole gallery/museum for a couple of hours. Then the group of us headed back to the RAF and I went to Abi's room to read over her IDP and offer advice to make it better if necessary. I had finished my own IDP Friday evening, so I was doing fine. After that I went back up to Burke's room and hung out there while I wrote a response to Dr. Ponder at Drury, for credit. Then Burke and I went to Fuddruckers for dinner, and luckily snagged a table the place was so busy. Afterwords we walked back from Chinatown to the RAF, figuring we could work off the calories we just ate. Then I came to my room, and headed to bed relatively early because Monday morning I signed up for an event called True Colors, where you learn your leadership style via a personality test.