Today we started with some much needed rest. After sleeping in we headed out to the congressional offices in order to pick up our tickets to the ceremony tomorrow. The lines stretched all around the building and since the tickets were in my friend’s name she waited in line as we ran the other errands – I still owe her a drink.
The rest of us walked to a store to exchange some clothing, and then walked all the way back to the Mall so we could go to the Smithsonian Air and Spance Museum. It was a lot of walking and the temperature kept dropping the whole time. From the museum we made reservations at the Brickskellar – the restaurant with the single largest collection of beer in the world (over 1000). After braving the long lines on the Metro we arrived for our reservation but we could not eat at the restaurant because some of our friends were 20 and not 21. Since their parents were not present they couldn’t eat a meal. 0 out of 5 stars.
We then walked to Stars restaurant and bar around the corner and had a delicious meal (pork tenderloin over mashed potatoes and an apple sauce) with a waiter who was friendly and looked exactly like Andre 3000 from Outkast. 5 out of 5 stars. Take that Brickskellar.
Tomorrow we have to be leaving the hotel at 4am for the ceremony and thus must sleep.
