Blazers and Romance: DC craziness

Oh the DC. DC was, I'm not going to lie here, my least favorite of the three cities that I visited over Spring Break. Although to be honest I'm not sure I really gave it a fair chance. We were limited to public transportation, which was fine because the place we stayed at was about a quarter mile from the subway station. And also we basically limited ourselves to free attractions.

I guess I have to explain. I love food. I love to eat and I love trying new foods and I love the idea of sitting down to a meal with someone. It's a social thing for me. It's about sharing. Kristin and I would go two different places for each meal just so that we could eat half of whatever we bought and then switch with the other person. And in New York, we ate out for every single meal. And it got to be expensive. New York is expensive. So by the time we got to DC, we figured we had better slow down on the food expenditures.

So when we got to DC on Monday night, we had some time to kill, and decided to go grocery shopping. We could buy sensible things and spend less in two days than we had on two meals in New York. It was brilliant. Here's where the fun began.

Fun thing Number 1:
The nearest grocery store to where we stayed was Whole Foods. I think whole foods is great. But also, every time I go there, I want to buy expensive cheese and some grapes to go with them and these crackers look so good, and is that curry I smell? Which translates to not cheap. So we decided to take an extra little walk to whatever grocery store that the Google Maps app on my phone said was closest. It was about a ten minute walk. But then again we were in Virginia. So Virginia decided to have some rain right then. Correction, Virginia decided to have a thunder storm right then. A thunderstorm that only lasted ten minutes, and, you guessed it, it chose the exact ten minutes that we were walking to the grocery store.

Contemplating the State of the Union, and also what my next meal would be.

Only when we got there, it was more like a convenience store that comes with a gas station except there were no fountain drinks and there was no gas station. Which not only had like negative selection, but was actually probably more expensive than going to whole foods. So soaked and disappointed, we walked over to whole foods. But we were good! Despite being hungry enough to have way too many cheese samples to not even buy the cheese, we were like Ms. Don't spend money and Ms. Only buy the essentials. We ended up getting some deli meat, bread, boring cheddar cheese, yogurt, a couple of apples, a couple of oranges, and a bunch of bananas. The bread and things turned into sandwiches, which we ate for lunch and dinner. And the yogurt and bananas turned to breakfast. And fruit for snacks. Which brings me to.....

Fun Thing Number 2:
Day 1 of eat all the groceries worked out great. Were were full all day and we were happy and we even got to go to the temple that night. It was cheap and awesome.
But on day two, we ran out of turkey for the sandwiches (holy cow brains I have been spelling this word sandwhiches my whole life and that is wrong!). But no worries! We would make grilled cheese sandwiches (it is so weird to type) instead. Except that we only had enough bread for three sandwiches. One and a half each. And we were out of snack fruit. But we had a bag of nasty peanuts that we had bought for the bus ride to DC. So as we made the grilled cheese's, we realized we were using a really funny burner after we had burnt all 3 of them. And then we put them in a plastic bag, which turned into us having soggy, burnt sandwiched when we were hungry for lunch. It was the saddest thing we had ever seen. We walked though cafes at all the museum-y places and smelled the food and instead ate our yucky sandwiches and nasty peanuts.

Not so excited at museum Number 7.

Besides this, DC is a LOT of museums. Like 7 museums in 2 days a lot. So by the time day 2 was ending, we were more than happy to meet some friends at Good Stuff Eatery to eat a properly cooked meal and enjoy something else besides reading a plaque about a dead person (I know I sound terribly insensitive right now).