Jude's DC Monuments Tour

Apologies in advance... but this is a Jude heavy post.  Not that there's really much of another kind. Anyways, while Jonathan was slaving away studying for his last final a week or two ago, I decided that Jude and I needed to get out of the house and go for a run around town.  We don't do this often, for a multitude of reasons... 

a) running is boring

b) the temperature is unkind 

c) jude likes to "run me" as opposed to me running him, which is both dangerous and awkward

d) there is a very high chance that jude will make a sudden directional decision, against what is generally acceptable (often due to squirrels or birds), and we will all go crashing down

Well, we decided to give it a go anyway (smart? - maybe not) and take a little dc monuments tour to make a) less true. We actually ended up having an awesome afternoon out in the dc sunshine. Here are a few iphone photos from our Sunday afternoon dc monuments tour:

We got tired from time to time and took little sunning breaks.

 We got a little too patriotic... 

We even got a little "arty" and stopped by the Hirshhorn to check out the new Ai Weiwei Circle of Animals - Zodiac Heads sculpture installation. They're truly an incredible sight and we'll definitely be back to see them again before they're gone (hopefully with Jonathan now too!).

We did eventually get kicked out (all well), but Jude did his best impression of a chinese zodiac head first. Not bad judebear, not bad.

All that running, art seeing and impersonating was pretty exhausting, so we stopped by the "Summerhouse" at the Capitol for a quick water break, and maybe just a little exploring too.

I'd say we had a pretty great day - that face says it all  :)

Lastly, I don't know about you, but we're WAY excited that it's finally the weekend! Por que??? Because we're heading to the beach in the mañana!!!

{you can tell when we get excited... because that's when the bad spanish starts to come out} 

Jonathan and I haven't really taken a trip together since we moved here (other than for weddings and family trips home for holidays), so we decided that it was time for a change! We've never been to OBX and surprisingly, it's only about 4.5 hours away! Thus, we're headed off for an early anniversary trip, end of 2L year celebration, and vacay before internships start (I'd say that's enough reasons for me!). Best part? Jude gets to come too :) Look out beach - he's got a years worth of digging to do!! For Jude's first beach encounter - see this old post. Happy, happy weekend everyone! See you in four days... unless we decide not to come back.