a spot on weekend

After an incredibly draining and stressful week, Jonathan and I couldn’t have been more relieved to know that we had a long weekend to recover. Not to mention that this coming weekend I head down to Athens for a dear friend’s bachelorette party, the following weekend Jonathan heads to the beach for another dear friend’s bachelor party (after a last minute, incredibly sweet gesture by said friend who’s getting Jonathan a plane ticket to come down—we love you Jared!), and then we have our loves, Josh & Maggie’s wedding weekend in Charleston! Needless to say, it’s going to be crazy, however, crazy amazing I’ll take any day :) I’m so excited to spend time with all of the friends we’ve missed so much since we’ve moved, but at the same time we knew that this weekend, we really needed to soak up the time together as it will be our last weekend together until June 25th. So in short, here are some highlights:

On Friday we decided to go to Ping Pong Dim Sum in Chinatown. Ever since the Toki Underground opened up on H Street, we’ve been really craving some good dumplings. The thing is though, Toki Underground has like 2 seats in the whole restaurant and we never want to wait the 2.5 hours for said dumplings. So on Friday, we decided to give Ping Pong Dim Sum a try and it hit the spot. Shrimp dumplings, pork dumplings, duck dumplings, chive dumplings and dumplings we still aren’t really sure of, left us full and happy.

                    

We obviously did a lot of cuddling with the Weimaraner (don’t worry, he wasn’t left out of family time).

                                

We did a lot of park time, we did some shopping (yay new dress and new hat for wedding and summer festivities), we did a ridiculous amount of cleaning (try 4.5 hours on Sunday…you don’t want to know how gross our apartment was), we spent some really great time with Ashley and Tammy and their friends visiting from Texas (so great to meet you Reeves & Hughes, come back to DC soon!), and today we sat on our butts a lot except for a random trip out to Georgetown where we happened upon the “soft opening” of Serendipity 3.


  

I haven’t had a frozen hot chocolate from Serendipity since my senior year of high school when my parents decided they would take me and my dear friend Holly to New York City for my graduation gift. It was one of the last trips I took with my Dad and I’ll never forget that initially, he had just wanted to take me on a Father-Daughter trip, but decided that I’d probably enjoy it even more if I had my Mom and Holly there with me (probably to shop with) :). I’d say that’s a Dad who truly knew his daughter.

                      

Those are some of my most cherished memories. Holly, we went to see Beauty and the Beast on Broadway in Atlanta and ate at the Sundial restaurant for my 11th birthday, we did New York City for our high school graduation, I’d say it’s about time for our next milestone trip. Let’s get to planning dear friend :)

Lastly, but most importantly, I want to take a second and say thank you to all the families who have sacrificed so much for all of us. Today for many is just a great day to enjoy time in the sun, grill out, and spend time together, but for others I know it must be a very difficult day as well. Thank you for your sacrifice and for the freedoms we are all able to enjoy today because of it. You are in our prayers today.