Tuesday, February 16, 2010

*~~*Snowpocalypse*~~*




All right, I've been slacking! I know! I'm a horrible person...well, blogger at least ;) BUT these past few weeks, I've been CA-RAZY busy!!! 
Normally, winter is one of my favorite seasons (fall being my first), but when the total snowfall for the past 5 days is around 35-40 inches, it starts to annoy you. 


apparently, the Snowpocalypse called for a raid on Target. This was what most of the shelves looked like:


The snow started falling early evening Friday and didn't stop til early Saturday morning. By Friday night, my roommates and I were already starting to feel the cabin fever, so we decided to walk down to the Washington Monument. . . in the snow. 

not our smartest idea...

BUT Ladies and Germs, WE, five brave yet reckless college students, made it the the monument!!!









While trekking through unimaginable flurries of snow, biting wind, and a RIDONKULOUS amount of ice an slush. . .  













We, the few, the proud, the brave. . . the slightly dimented, were able to see several of DC's sights covered in the beautiful blanket of snow.



 
the U.S. Capitol through the blizzard

In front of the Congress side of the U.S. Capitol








The Smithsonian Castle





The Capitol Hill Reflecting Pool
 another shot of the Washington Monument.

Finally, after making it back to the house (barely) we all sat down to a (semi) friendly game of Scrabble and a nice, hot pot of my homemade hot chocolate :)
Therefore, thanks to Scrabble, hot chocolate, and our well satisfied pioneer spirits, we survived the first Snowpocalypse!!!!
The SECOND one, however, was another story. We were all stuck inside for an entire week!! 


 this was the snowfall from the FIRST Snowpocalypse,

 and this was the result of Snowpocalypse II.

During our imprisonment in 510 C, we came to realize that Dorothy was wrong, there WAS someplace like home...anywhere BUT home!! It brings to mind a childhood memory: Muppet's Treasure Island!!

!!!!!!We've got CABIN FEVER!!!!!!

Yes, we had it bad. All of us were DYING for entertainment...so what did we do? Well...
 







we played cards.













and more cards
















watched the Super Bowl,
(party animals, aren't we?)













and laughed at the poor schmooks who were actually OUT in the weater!








yes, that's a corgi :) LOVES!!!
Sadly, even with our makeshift forms of entertainment, there were still casualties.
Poor Jeff, we'll miss you.

FINALLY, after the Snowpocalypse II had ended, we ventured out into the alien landscape that was once Washington. It was the first time any of the Smithsonians had been open since the Snowpocalypse, so we walked to the Air & Space Museum! :)
From the Wright Flyer to a replica of Amelia Earhart's plane to a model of the plane that broke the sound barrier, we saw it all!
among the planes, there was this steam powered bike...
can we say, "steampunk?" haha :)

Their suits have come a LOOOONG way, haven't they?


W00T!!!! 
my favs :) 
pics of the REAL R2 and C3PO will come when I finally visit the National Museum of American History :)

 

The Wright 1903 Flyer! 

BUT...
Hold your applause til the end of this segment and try to contain your excitement,
THE

BEST,
MY FAVORITE,
AND MOST AMAZING EXHIBIT:

THE SPIRIT OF ST. LOUIS!
The plane that Charles A. Lindburg used to fly the FIRST SUCCESSFUL Solo Trans-Atlantic Flight (from New York to Paris) in 1927! For 33 hours, it was only him, the Spirit, and the open skies (and storms, rain, sleet, hail, and the entire Atlantic Ocean underneath him...). 

His autobiography, simply entitled "We," refers to him and The Spirit of St. Louis, and focuses on his love of flying.
This man was (and still is) my childhood hero.
Every single chance I could, I studied him, did book reports, biographies, papers, you name it!

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Oh yeah, and there was other stuff at the museum, like the Mars station. 
Haha, I got kinda caught up in Lindburg :)




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