the District
| Capitol Hill Books |
| in the Library of Congress |
| the less-funny shadow photo |
| Renoir in the National Gallery of Art. this print hung in my bedroom when I was little! |
| Pennsylvania Avenue & the Capitol |
• an entire weekend plus some with this girl (and her really great roommates)
• baby Barack and baby Michelle (aka presidential family photos) and Charles P. Ingalls' homestead papers (as in the father of Laura Ingalls Wilder!!!) at the National Archives
• the Amelia Earhart room in the National Portrait Gallery
• the security guard at the Georgetown University library: "Melissa in da house!"
• PITANGO
• the fact that every museum I visited this weekend was free to visit. I'm so thankful for opportunities to see and take in rooms upon rooms of incredible artwork and exhibits for free.
• visiting the Library of Congress with M. We were feeling oh so covetous of their beautiful reading room.
• so much delicious food. (Le Pain Quotidien, Busboys and Poets, Baked and Wired, Seventh Hill Pizza, Cheesetique, Jeni's)
basically the whole weekend. It was the best.

