Saturday and Sunday

Last night at Rock It!'s was great. By the time everyone showed up, there were about a dozen of people in our party. The bar was pretty busy, but not nearly as crowded as it became once the karaoke machine came alive! Within ten minutes of the time that the sign-up sheet was unveiled, there were already 40 people on it. Luckily, we were warned by someone in our party, so we made sure to get in line soon and put our names on the list.

Since you're all curious... Drew and I sang first of our group. We sang Roberta Flack and Donny Hathaway's song, "Where is the Love?" A few songs later, Mal, Karen, myself, and a few other ladies in our entourage belted out "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" (which we realized once onstage that none of us really knew that well). As our final performance Mal and I did a classic crowd pleaser, Garth Brooks' "Friends in Low Places." It was so much fun and definitely an entertaining evening!















Gettin' ready to sing, er, make some strange noises while holding a microphone.















And again except with Karen...


Today was just as awesome and has to be one of my favorite Saturdays spent in DC!! It was one of those days where everything I did was completely due to the wonderful city in which I live.

After church today, Mal and Karen split from Drew and me. Karen had to pack, with the intention of heading back to NC. Drew and I went to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. I had never been there, but had been meaning to go for quite a while. We wound up spending three hours there as we tag teamed with a tour guide and she walked us through the majority of the museum and talked about the years between Hitler's first position of power (1933) through the end of WW 2. The museum was intense and several times I couldn't help but get a little emotional.

After our travels through history, Drew and I walked outside and were greeted with HUGE snow flakes and a white winter wonderland. We crunched through the two inch powdery snow and met Mal and Karen at the Sculpture Garden cafe. We found out that Karen was still in town, due to the snow, and we used that as an excuse for her to stay longer! Once at the cafe, we all sipped on yummy hot chocolate while we watched snow ball fights, ice skaters, and kids running in the snow outside.

"It's just like a snow globe," Mal said. And it really was... that or one of those little snow villages that you see around Christmas time.

Mal and Karen were planning on ice skating and Drew and I were easily persuaded (well, I was... Drew took a bit longer) to join. So, we rented ice skates and skated on the Sculpture Garden's rink (what is normally the biggest fountain in DC and is the one that I am sitting by in my profile picture to the left).
















Catching snow flakes... and Drew looking like he's eating a firefly or tinkerbell.
















Right after we landed our double axles...

Thirty minutes, a blister (poor Mal), and forty cold toes later, we called it quits and headed back into the cafe to warm ourselves. That called for more hot chocolate and some time to dry off our jackets and gloves.

By the time our fun was over, it was dark. So, we hopped aboard the metro and then walked the rest of the way home. It's amazing how walking in the snow never seems as cold as walking without it.