I picked up my NEW CAR (!!!!!!) on Saturday morning (Thank you Brennan for dragging yourself out of bed and taking me to Manassas wayyyy early on a weekend morning) and picked Mom and Dad up from Dulles on Saturday night. We went to church at Ebenezers then off to an amazing meal at 1789 - a restaurant I hadn't been to before, but Mom and Dad went to when they lived here in the 70s. It was very fancy :)
Sunday went to the National Cathedral (neat tour I hadn't done before) and walked the Monuments then had a super fun dinner at Filomena with BW, Brennan, and Paul. But then, there's no such thing as a NOT fun dinner with BW, Brennan, and Paul.
Monday was State of the Union! We had all our "R" and SOME semi-indifferent "D" friends over for David and my 3rd Annual SOTU Tex Mex and Watch Party.
Tuesday night I got to include Mom and Dad in a real Washington-style evening-- we went to the Denny Hastert Tribute Dinner at the Ronald Reagan WTC atrium. Newt Gingrich and Bob Michel hosted the event-- other big wigs included Boehner, Oxley, Blunt etc.
Denny hosted a staff reception after at Johnny's Half Shell... SO great to see the old Hastert crew and reconnect with some people I had lost track of. My short time in that office was nothing short of remarkable.
On Wednesday my parents got to meet my boss! Then Johnny treated David, myself, and M & D to lunch in the West Wing at the White House!! So exciting to be able to have that experience with them... and a very small way to say thank you for all their dedication to my education, career, and life in DC. I would have never gotten further in this city than my 8th grade class trip if not for their support! I'm a lucky girl.
