Everything Comes to an End

Well this is the end. The last post I will have while in D.C. Wow, what an experience!! The past week has gone by so fast! Last week was the last work week with my co-intern from Texas A&M and I really missed him this week. I had so much stuff to do this week at work, but that made the week go by so fast. All week we, the interns, have been doing things that we wanted to do or eat before we left, one last time. We went to a huge dinner at Old Ebbitt Grill last Friday with about 10 of the roommates that hadn't left yet. It was great, it was our last get together with that many of the interns. Then after dinner we went to the White House Christmas Tree. That was a lot of fun! It was cool, but we were a little disappointed, the Capitol Christmas Tree is SO much better. It was so awesome, but we will get to that part. Then that weekend, two of my 3rd floor roommates left. That was so hard. Cassie and AJ, it was so terrible saying goodbye. I have made life long friends with them, and I can't wait to get back to Tech to see them again.  Then on Wednesday a lot of the roommates left from the 1st floor and that was also hard. It has basically been a constant string of goodbyes to everyone, it is so hard. Work all week was great though. I don't know if it was the fact that it was coming to an end, but it was great. This week on the 3rd floor we have only had four left. Me, Libbie, John and William the final four. We all had work but every night this week we went out to dinner and did all the final things. We went to the Capitol Christmas Tree and it was great!!!! It snowed all day that day and the National Mall was beautiful!! I am so happy that we got to see DC white with snow. I have plenty of pictures that I will share with all of you don't worry. Well, we went to the Christmas tree, took our pictures and then, of course, the snowball fight started. It was so much fun just playing around and throwing snow at each other. I think it took our minds off of leaving for a little bit, so it helped. It was so much fun! By the time we were home all of us were soaked and had snow all over us. We looked pretty rough walking home after that. Then the packing began, and is still going as we speak. We will see if I can get it all home. Hopefully I can. John, William and I are the only ones left. They are getting to see me cry the most. William leaves last so he will be the last person I see before I leave, hopefully I won't cry too hard. This experience has been one of the best of my life. I have made some lifelong friends and I can't imagine my life without them now. We have really become a family. I don't know what I am going to do without them. I am so thankful for everything and everyone that helped me get to where I am today. Without you I would never be here. DC is the most beautiful city and so amazing. I can not wait to come back and visit my friends that are staying up here to work. I will for sure be back soon. Again, this was an amazing experience and I am sad to see it ending. I leave tomorrow back to Texas. And there is an all new adventure ahead....GRADUATION!! May 14th be there!! Love you all!! Thanks for reading!

Thanksgiving.. DC intern style.

It’s CHRISTMAS TIME officially! Well Thanksgiving came and went at the Tech House just like it did everywhere else just a little different than normal. A lot of the Tech interns’ families came to town that week and there was only me and a couple left. We made due though we had a pot luck Thanksgiving lunch with some of our intern friends for the Hill and it ended up being a great day. We just enjoyed a ton of food and watched football. It was great! This week so far has been a busy week. There is a lot of stuff going on at the Hill with votes and ending the year. Also, today I got to go to lunch with Congressman Lucas. It was great to be able to sit down and talk to him for a while and enjoy wonderful food. I was very appreciative for the time he took to get to know us. It was great! I will tell you all about it in person when I get home.  We are still staying pretty busy in the office with being in session. And it is starting to hit that we only have a couple of weeks left here on the Hill. Some of the roommates are already starting to move out. The first one leaves on Friday. It is going to be so strange when we start leaving. I can’t believe it has gone by so fast. It is going to be hard to go back to Tech and get readjusted to the Tech college life and not the DC intern life. It will be great though. I would say that is next couple of weeks are going to be bittersweet. Sad leaving this experience behind, but I have learned so much that I will always have with me. Exciting to be finally going back to Texas and visit all my family just in time for Christmas. It will be weird actually staying in Texas instead of coming back. It will be strange. Well I will try to keep you more updated on these last couple of weeks. Since there are only a couple of weeks left. Until next time…

Parents in D.C.

Well I am writing this a little late but I am updating you on my parents’ trip. It was fantastic. As soon as they got to town I met up with them and surprised my dad at their hotel. I had told my dad that I had to work all day that I would meet up with them after work, but I got off work at 12 that day to spend the afternoon with them. He was pretty happy to see me, and I had tried to surprise my mom as well, but she asked me the night before about eating lunch at the airport. I tried to convince her that there were plenty of places to eat around their hotel when they got here, but she was set on eating at the airport. So, I had to tell her that I was meeting them for lunch and Not to eat there. It was great thought at least I got to surprise one of them. From the hotel, I started their DC experience. I took them to

Pennsylvania Ave.

to eat at a little sandwich place and took them straight to the Capitol for a tour. They were really excited to see where I worked and hear everything that I had learned up here. The tour took a few hours and by then they were already getting pretty tired. All during the tour, they would see Congressman and Senators and would get excited to be walking by them. That night I took them to a wonderful dinner for their first night in DC and we were all worn out after that. The next days were followed by a TON of site seeing and a lot of catching up. I loved being able to show them around where I have been living.  My dad was even more excited because at their hotel lobby they ran into a Congressman from Oregon, and he asked my dad if he was one of the incoming freshmen, and that made his day. All in all it was a great trip and I really enjoyed having them up here. Now to update you on work. Work has been great! We are back in session and all the Congressman are around everywhere. I have run into more Congressman in the past couple of weeks than I have all semester. It has been really awesome. We are still doing the normal office things, but also starting to get ready to start packing for our new office. It has been wonderful so far! Until next time…

It has been a while…

Well it has been a while since my last post mostly because we didn’t have internet at the Tech house for about 3 and a half weeks, and I couldn’t do this at work. It has been a long month, and so much to catch you up on. Well when I left you I had just gone to the White House Garden for a tour. The last couple of weeks of October and recess were great just normal stuff on the Hill and getting excited and some nervous about the Elections on Nov. 2^nd. The Hill at that point was kind of in a stand still waiting to see what happened and no Congressman really wanted to stir up anything before elections. Then November 2^nd rolls around and the Tech House was interested to see what happen in the Elections. We watched the results at home that night till about 1:30am when the House was officially taken over by the Republicans. It was an exciting next day on the Hill, for the Republican Party, you could just tell everyone was in a good mood, besides the Democrats. To see the news all day about the Elections was really neat, because we were right in the middle of it. It was awesome to see the things on National Television that were happening right next door. Also, in my office it was a good day because we will officially be called the Majority Committee on Agriculture in Jan. It will be an exciting time and the staff will be switching offices. To bad I will be leaving as soon as we get the bigger office. It was still great to be here during the Elections though. Now starting this week we are back in session. All of the Congressman came back into town and have started the lame-duck session. It has been a good week so far, on Monday it was like the first day of school here. The freshman congress came into town for freshman orientation this week and it was fun to help direct potential hill employees and congressman around the capitol grounds and buildings. Also something that happened recently I have started having visitors in town. My friend came into town last weekend and my parents are coming into town this weekend. I am so excited to show them the town and finally see both of my parents. This will be the first time since I left that I get to see them. I am planning on giving them the grand tour of everything. Thanks to some of my fellow roommates I have planned everything out. I will have to upload some photos from this weekend soon. All in all I am still loving it up here and enjoying my last month up here on Capitol Hill. I miss everyone and can’t wait to be back in Texas. Until next time…

STAY OFF THE GRASS!!!!

I forgot to tell you about the White House Garden Tour that we went on today. I got tickets from another intern and me and 3 of my roommates went. It was beautiful outside and the perfect day to walk through the gardens at the white house. It was really cool we got to walk on the grounds and see all the trees that old Presidents have planted and we got to see the outside of the oval office and the West Wing. It was great! We got a ton of good pictures which I put one of them up on here, but the other will come soon. It was a great thing to do on a Sunday afternoon. We just could not step on the grass there were a ton of police officers and security everywhere and they would basically tackle you if you were on the grass, but don’t worry I took a  picture of my touching the grass before they tackled me. ;) Well I just wanted to update ya’ll on that before I forgot again. Tomorrow is back to work and back to just sitting and waiting basically! Until next time….

The group at PHILLY!

Me and Josh Duhamel and william.!! I have a better one but havent dowloaded it yet

The group eating philly cheesteak that was soooo good!

Transformers!!!!!!

Well the other day after I wrote that last post we went walking to the Abraham Lincoln Memorial where we heard that the Transformers 3 people would be filming that night. This was after I had been sitting in front of the Capitol for about an hour in front of trucks and buses waiting to see if they would start filming. But then me and a group went to Abe. There were a ton of people there and they were filming background images for a fight scene between the robots. It was really awesome getting to see the set up. AND the best part was that I got to see and take pictures with one of the main stars in the movie. JOSH DUHAMEL! It was awesome and we were so excited after that the 2 miles home was a breeze! After that nothing really too exciting has been going on at work or the Tech house. It has just kind of been a normal week. Everyone is just kind of getting prepared for the elections in a few weeks and waiting to see what happens.Until next time..