A bit pathetic of me, but I really only use friend-visits as reasons to visit all the cool places in the city that I rarely go to. I've been better with that in the summer, but luckily I've also had so many visitors that I rarely get a chance to go out and explore between visits anyway!
This time around, I have a friend visiting who is already a GW student, so seeing the city with her is a bit different. She's already lived here for two years as I have, so we want to do really different stuff with few touristy things between. (I said few, not zero, though.)
So yesterday, we decided to check out some of the vintage clothing stores in the U Street Corridor--and we found some diamonds in the rough, let me tell you! Me, her, and my roommate all got a dress each, and my bud also got a purse. Here are the stores we stopped into and loved:
Dr. K's Vintage
1534 U ST, NW
MATCH Boutique
1526 U ST, NW
Junction
1510 U ST, NW
Rock it Again
1528 U ST, NW
DC Stem
1412 U ST, NW
A few of these weren't vintage but boutiquey all the same, and they were all really, really fun to hang around in and delve through. None were particularly big stores, but they were all packed with stuff to sift through and find treasures in! I'm not a big shopper, I'm usually the type that prefers to get in, get what I need, and leave ASAP, but I actually had a lot of fun rifling through all their wares. See for yourself!
More on my city excursions to come soon! Email with questions: shireens@gwmail.gwu.edu
<3 Shireen
Thursday, June 23, 2011
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
Summer Livin'
Hi everyone!
Hope your summer is going well. Mine has been much busier than anticipated! I initially chose to intern Tuesdays and Thursdays, and then got a second internship for Wednesdays. Now, I am also babysitting and petsitting and leaving myself little time for the reading, room painting, relaxing, and cooking that I expected to be doing all summer! But it is fun to be busy and I'm happy to have some money coming in to compliment by unpaid internships :)
I am also continuing to prepare for my study abroad which begins at the end of August. Chile awaits, and I am so excited to head down there. I will probably post more about this later, but I am starting to think about what I'll need. I decided that I'm going to see if I can fit everything into a backpacking backpack in order to make traveling really easy. I'm not sure I can travel that light though. We'll see!!
My internship has had me outside a lot lately which is nice and Portland, Oregon, has been beautiful! Hope the sun is out for all of you as well! Happy Summer Solstice!
As always, questions are welcome! marisaw@gwmail.gwu.edu
- Marisa
Hope your summer is going well. Mine has been much busier than anticipated! I initially chose to intern Tuesdays and Thursdays, and then got a second internship for Wednesdays. Now, I am also babysitting and petsitting and leaving myself little time for the reading, room painting, relaxing, and cooking that I expected to be doing all summer! But it is fun to be busy and I'm happy to have some money coming in to compliment by unpaid internships :)
I am also continuing to prepare for my study abroad which begins at the end of August. Chile awaits, and I am so excited to head down there. I will probably post more about this later, but I am starting to think about what I'll need. I decided that I'm going to see if I can fit everything into a backpacking backpack in order to make traveling really easy. I'm not sure I can travel that light though. We'll see!!
My internship has had me outside a lot lately which is nice and Portland, Oregon, has been beautiful! Hope the sun is out for all of you as well! Happy Summer Solstice!
As always, questions are welcome! marisaw@gwmail.gwu.edu
- Marisa
Wednesday, June 15, 2011
Tourist Weekend!
This weekend, my best bud from back home came down to DC to spend a few days with me! It was a nice break from the mundane schedule I had become accustomed to, since just about all I've been doing is work and read stuff FOR work. Haha.
So we did a lot of touristy stuff, and some less-touristy but still 100% DC things. For one, we ate at We The Pizza, my favorite DC pizza place, as listed in my pizza post. We also went to Busboys & Poets, a very well-known DC restaurant for a capoiera and Brazilian musical performance as part of the Afro-Brazilian Cultural Festival! Then they had an after-party for that too, which was pretty awesome--though just about everyone was a better dancer than my friends and I were! We still had a blast.
We did a few Smithsonians as well: The National Gallery and the Museum of Natural History, where we saw the Hope diamond in it's new setting! So gorgeous!
That's her. quite a beaut, eh? We stopped by the botanical gardens too, but it was just so hot and muggy that we really couldn't stay long, we wanted to get into some air conditioning after that!
It was nice being a tourist though, if only for a few days. That's one of the fantastic things about being here during the summer, you get to really take advantage of the touristy stuff you wouldn't necessarily do when you have classes and homework and other school obligations to take care of. So far my first DC summer is living up to my expectations! Let's hope it goes even more uphill from here! I'll keep you in the loop.
Send me emails with any questions about anything! Shireens@gwmail.gwu.edu
~~~Shireen
So we did a lot of touristy stuff, and some less-touristy but still 100% DC things. For one, we ate at We The Pizza, my favorite DC pizza place, as listed in my pizza post. We also went to Busboys & Poets, a very well-known DC restaurant for a capoiera and Brazilian musical performance as part of the Afro-Brazilian Cultural Festival! Then they had an after-party for that too, which was pretty awesome--though just about everyone was a better dancer than my friends and I were! We still had a blast.
We did a few Smithsonians as well: The National Gallery and the Museum of Natural History, where we saw the Hope diamond in it's new setting! So gorgeous!
That's her. quite a beaut, eh? We stopped by the botanical gardens too, but it was just so hot and muggy that we really couldn't stay long, we wanted to get into some air conditioning after that!
It was nice being a tourist though, if only for a few days. That's one of the fantastic things about being here during the summer, you get to really take advantage of the touristy stuff you wouldn't necessarily do when you have classes and homework and other school obligations to take care of. So far my first DC summer is living up to my expectations! Let's hope it goes even more uphill from here! I'll keep you in the loop.
Send me emails with any questions about anything! Shireens@gwmail.gwu.edu
~~~Shireen
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