Holiday: Halloween 2011

This year for halloween, we decided to hit up the montrose crawl thing. Which isn't really crawl like. I wish maybe they would just close down the street and have more places open that everyone can walk in and out of. Like Austin. Big poppa and i were originally supposed to be minions but after a week of hard work and not even being close to done and having a painting mishap, we quickly changed plans and went as zombies. It took us about an hour to get into character and we were off to montrose. It was chilly! Such great weather. We met up mochi and her peeps and none of them were dressed up. Boring! I have to say that it's not fun being the only people in costume. Luckily emdee and some phat came out to meet us up. They were zombies too which is where we got our idea to be zombies. So we were a gang of zombies. I had such a great time being in disguise. We ran around making zombie noises at everyone. There were some really creative costumes out there that night.

Trippin': Washington D.C. - Tidal Basin

For those of you who have read up on those cherry blossom trees in D.C., you know that the peak blooming period for these beautiful sakuras are not only hard to predict but also quite fleeting. And if you want to visit, well, unless you're a baller, it's not realistic to book a last minute trip to catch them in full bloom. I mentioned to a few people that i really wanted to go. I mean c'mon. Where do i not really want to go? So when miss flowerchild asked me to go, i pretty much couldn't say no. I wish people would stop asking me to go places cos it's so hard to say no! I have no concept of budgeting so things go awry pretty quickly for me when it comes to traveling. So what most people will do is plan there trip according to when the cherry blossom parade and japanese festival takes place. Unfortunately, with the luck i had this trip, it meant that i missed the trees in all it's glory by a week. A WEEK! Argh. There were some petals still hanging on for dear life here and there but for the most part, the ground was littered with the pink blossoms. The ground was also littered with throngs of asian people EVERYWHERE. SO MANY PEOPLE! I mean seriously. What economy? Miss flowerchild and i rented bikes to ride around and there was just no way to go through the crowd on the bike. I basically walked my bike for most of the way around the tidal basin. I felt like phoebe on friends when ross got a bike for her. Haha.

Musik Mundi: AWOLNation

AWOLNation
Album: Megalithic Symphony (2011)
Song: Kill Your Heroes
Song: Jump On My Shoulders

Every morning as I drive to work, I'm usually listening to 94.5 The Buzz cos I like Rod Ryan's morning show. Or I'll switch to npr if they start playing that foo fighters song. I dunno why they always gotta play foo fighters in the morning. So roddy always talks about how great the AWOLNation album is. Even though i like the song they have out on the radio, i kept forgetting to give it a listen. Well, i finally got that chance i like what i hear! These two songs in particular are my fave from the album. I like how their music talks about things other than love. They were supposed to perform at buzz fest a couple of weekends ago but had to cancel cos the lead vocals guy was sick. So now I don't have to feel bad for missing it! I prolly wouldn't have gone anyway.

*photo courtesy of amazon.com*

Trippin: Washington D.C. - American History Museum

With so many free museums to choose from, I had a hard time narrowing down which ones I wanted to go to. I initially didn't have plans to go to the The National Museum of American History. I dunno. I thot it would be boring for some reason? But after miss antsymama told me she really liked it when she went, i was like okay we're mos def going. Since the parade was abruptly ended by fire, miss flower child and i went on over to the American History museum. I loved it! We got to see the original flag that inspired Francis Scott Key's lyrics (not the tune!) for The Star Spangled Banner. I love the way everything was set up. No pics were allowed. I got yelled at for attempting. My other faves included seeing Julia Child's kitchen and the dresses that all the first ladies wore to the inauguration ball.