Featured

I am feeling super excited and very proud at the moment...... I had a message on my etsy shop to say someone had featured one of my items on their blog.  This girl is from Australia - this super cyber space world always amazes me.... someone on the otherside of the world loves my little miss eggbot!  Thats cool.

Star of the show - Miss Eggbot

Check out The Strangest Dreams blog http://thestrangestdreamsblog.blogspot.com/ where she is featured among other freaky little easter items.  I feel like I need to brush up on my photographs, the others look a lot better and I need good photos to attract people to my shop.  I am working on some ideas at the moment for the shop so will hopefully have something new to list soon.

The Hood

If we go out anywhere locally we always head south and go to either 'Cleveland Park' or 'Woodley Park' which are two neighbourhoods just a short walk away, heading toward the centre of DC.  They are both really cool areas with a lot of restaurants and bars.  I would say if we had a 'local' it would be Nanny O'Brien's which is an Irish bar in Cleveland Park.  Its not really very Irish apart from a bit of paraphenalia and I think an Irish music night on a Monday, which I have avoided! but its a decent little local pub. 

At the weekend we decided to walk north for a change...checked out one of the book shops we had been meaning to go to called Politics and Prose it was pretty good, really big and they often have authors in doing Q&As or readings - there was one going on while we were in there which sounded pretty good.  They also have book clubs and there is one at the moment for modern Japanese literature so I am thinking about giving it a go.



A bit further up the road is the American City Dinner & Cinema Cafe which we visited for lunch.  I loved it, it was really old school I have never been in one like this before its kind of like being in a super shiny aluminium trailer.  It was decked out with little booths and neon signs and had 50/60s classics playing.  I was very excited!

I tried my very first root beer, I really enjoyed it but can understand why others might not.  It tasted like dentyne chewing gum to me (which I really like) a bit medicinal, a bit cinnamony.  Teddy hated it - I guess its a marmite type of thing you are probably gonna love it or hate it.  Russell had a ChilliDog, you can hardly see the dog for all the chilli!

This place has a little extension type thing where there are a few more tables and chairs and they have a big pull down screen and they play a classic movie every night at 8.  So will defo be heading back there soon to catch a movie and have some more root beer!

Sunny Days

The sunny weather has arrived, the daffodils have started to pop up and everyone has their shades on. Luckily there were a few sunny days for David's visit we got to sit outside for dinner somedays; proper holiday stuff.

Enjoying Margarita swirls - yummy brain freeze

 

Pretty skies :-)

The weekend gone was really warm between 23-25degrees we spent Friday afternoon in the park with a picnic and some sunbathing and frisbee-ing.  Saturday we had a browse round the city, it was so busy everyone enjoying the first hot weekend.

I am going to enjoy the spring sunshine as much as possible - it was just like being on holiday at the weekend.  Hopefully, I will have climatised by the time the real hot weather comes.  Try and get my whiter than white skin used to the sun.

Mr O - round 2 on the Blogger!

Thursday March 11

Today we went to the Smithsonian Art Museum, it was pretty cool.  In my opinion the sculptures were particularly good. Some of the paintaings and pictures aren't really what I consider "Art" but most of it was really good.

This Horse made from driftwood was pretty cool, I thought.

   

We also went to the Bowling Alley in China Town.

This is me getting ready to do some damage at the Bowling Alley

It was a good night had by all... even if Russell was the Victor.....I'm not bitter haha.

This is me loosing it in the bar after loosing to Russell at the bowling... no I'm not a sore loser!

Saturday March 13

SHAMROCK FEST! was a total wash out, literally!  It was the most ludicrus downpour ever, we got totally soaked!

Tuesday March 16

Today we went to the Natural History Museum. It was really amazing and there was loads to see. If anyone was thinking of visting DC I would definitely recommend going to the Smithsonian museums, there are loads of them, for all interests. They are all free admission and well worth a visit.  

All of the Smithsonian museums are here thanks to a British guy (Mr Smithson) who left half a million dollars worth of gold to the Americans in his will; the only stipulation being, whatever they did with it had to be educational and it had to have his name on it...

Wednesday March 17

Today me and Amy went to the Tidal Basin to have a go on the Pedal Boats, good fun but hard work peddling the boats around the lake. The lake has great views of the monuments and the city.

Thursday March 18

Today is my last day... I'll be going to the Airport in a couple of hours. I've had an amazing time and have visited loads of sights. It's been great catching up with my sister and Russell, I've had an awsome two weeks and will no doubt be visiting again in the future.

DC stays where it's at but the memories are mine to keep.

Mr O signing off - over and out......

Guest Blogging by Mr O

 Hi I'm Amy's brother and I'm on a visit from the UK. Below are a select few of the pitcures taken so far on my tour of DC. 

Friday March 5th

This is the Lincoln monument on the Mall, it's pretty impressive; i've seen it loads of times on TV and in films and stuff but you never really appreciate how huge it is until you're close up. It's massive!

 

Below is a picture of me and Amy standing below the Washington Monument, usually seen in pictures showing it's reflection in the Reflecting Pool but the pool itself is quite some distance away, closer to the Abe Lincoln monument than where we are now.

Later that day we visited Hooters, an amazing American invention; whoever thought it up needs a gold medal. With good beer, good food, and even better waitresses on tap, what more is there?

This was my waitress Kristie, what a swell job she did...

Sunday March 7th

On Sunday we all went to the National Zoo, it was a pretty good zoo in comparsion to others i've seen

Below is me and Russell standing at the gates of the Zoo.

Later that day we went to a Mexican Restaurant for food, it was mega tasty. I had Ribs, Giant Prawns, Steak Strips and other green stuff to go in my Tortillas. 

This was some of the finest Steak I have tasted, good work Chef!

Monday March 8th

Today Amy and I visited the American History Museum, it had some really interesting stuff about the Presidents of the US but what I thought was more impressive was the actual jacket that Fonz wore in Happy Days, the Red shoes Judy Garland wore in the Wizard of Oz and the C3PO costume Anthony Daniels wore in Return of the Jedi. Haha...good stuff!

This is me with C3PO

The pair of Dorothy slippers held at the Smithsonian in DC

Wednesday March 10th

Today we went to the Air and Space Museum, it was pretty cool. An absolutely enormous building, it housed loads of really huge Aeroplanes and Lunar Space modules and stuff like that. We had a tour guide who seemed to know what he was talking about, he was pretty cool.

Below is a picture of me and Amy taken by the thermal imaging camera. Clever stuff, I thought it looked pretty neat.

This is the Bell X-1; the first ever plane to break the sound barrier,shaped like was a 50 caliber bullet it reached 957mph - Mach 1.45 on March 26th 1948

 

This is Amy standing next to Charles (Chuck) Lindbergh; the first man to ever complete a Trans-Atlantic flight, it took him 33 days to fly 3600 miles....good work sir! 

This is a taster of what i've been upto so far, taking in the culture and having a laugh.

Mr O...signing off....

Introducing the Egg Team

I finally got round to setting up my etsy shop.  My first lot of creations are my creme egg cosies.

Check out my shop here  http://www.etsy.com/shop/HeartHooks let me know what you think...
My shop banner is just a temporary one, I am having something with a little more panache designed.

Long awaited arrival

I just realised there has been quite a lack of posts, so thought I would drop a quick one.  We haven't really been up to a lot the past couple of weeks, saving cents for when my brother visits.  He lands tomorrow for 2 weeks, so should be lots of sightseeing and photos for the blog then. 

Last Thursday our shipment from the UK finally arrived it's really nice having our stuff around us again.  I am trying to get it all unpacked for David's arrival tomorrow....

 

32 Super big boxes to unpack - nice

 

Just some of the washing - yawn-a-rama, there are piles and piles worse than coming home from a holiday

 

Books - yipee!!  They were the first things to unpack

We also had an unexpected arrival; Mama Moomin looked high and low for some of her Christmas decorations in December, they were on a ship on their way to the USofA haha!  Best be off now lots to do.