Trippin': Washington D.C. - The National Museum of Natural History

10th St and Constitution Ave NW
Washington, D.C. 20560

There really is no shortage of people in the mall area. The day that we were here, miss flowerchild dashed through a light drizzle of rain from the smithsonian visitor's center over to the end of a long line of people trying to get into The National Museum of Natural History. I visited this museum with my parents as a child. I can't tell if my experience here was from my own memory or from the hundreds of photos that my mom took. Gee. Can you guess where I got my trigger happy fingers from? I think i remember hanging off the rails that lead up the stairs to the entrance and doing flips on them. I don't think a lot has changed since then. Haha. And then i also remember seeing the big african elephant in the middle of the lobby area and putting on some headphones to listen to the commentary. I really need to ask my mom about looking for those photos. We had very little money back then but things just seemed so much simpler. Or maybe i just didn't know better. It was right after this long road trip i had with my parents that my mom became pregnant with the middle sistar. My life as an only child was over.

Musik Mundi: Egyptian Hip Hop

Egyptian Hip Hop
Album: Some Reptiles Grew Wings (2011)
Song: Rad Pitt

I was trying to sleep in last Sunday and the non-vocal parts of Rad Pitt kept playing in my head. Maybe my body and brain was trying to tell me that it was already noon and i shouldn't be sleeping anymore. I'm not a morning person. Never was. Never will be. And will never pretend I am. Number two on my list of reasons why i don't want any kids yet. I hear the stories and i'm like yeah it's not gonna happen. Going back to rad pitt, i love everything about the song except for the vocals part. Maybe too emo for me? So i leave it out of my ipod playlist for the most part. Then it was playing itself on repeat in my head. Instrumentals are so good! So what else did i do this weekend? I worked at my second job. Tried to wind down by watching Tangled. I really liked it! And managed to fight off sleep long enough to attend a friend's bday at a bar where i ate bad foodtruck food. I slept til noon again on Sunday. Omgawd so lazy.

*photo courtesy of amazon.com*

Daily Shots: Cupcakes

I'm getting to a point where i can't remember if i posted certain things yet or not. Getting bad memory at old age. One weekend, my sweet tooth decided to stop by two different cupcake trucks to see if they were any good. Cupcake battle! But not really. The two trucks that i went to, frosted betty and whatup cupcake both didn't have any synchronicity in terms of flavor. Also, whatup cake has already pretty much ran out of a lot of their flavors for the day. At whatup cupcake, i got vanilla and orange dream and at frosted betty i got nutella and red velvet. Frosted betty managed to get a spot on that food network show cupcake wars. I'm not sure how cos i didn't feel as if either of their cupcakes were that good. The nutella at crave is way better. They frost the cupcakes as you order and whoever sold me the cupcake (dad?) was not a very good froster/piper. I didn't particular like whatup cupcake either but i liked it better than frosted betty. The icing was whipped base which i prefer cos those super sweet buttercream sugary frosting is even too sweet for me! What i also don't like are sprinkled of any kind on my cupcakes. Especially the sugar crystal variety.