On Sunday, we went to the “pet market” with another couple. Our friends are currently looking for a golden retriever and Shawn and I have also been discussing getting a dog now that we’re in Kyiv. There were a couple of close calls, but the four of us left the market empty handed in the end.
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We spent our last holiday weekend in the US in the city that never sleeps: New York City. Even though we both love theater and big cities, we had somehow never made it to the Big Apple before. So we spent a whirlwind of just under 48 hours seeing as much as humanly possible in a city where there are literally hundreds of things to see.
This year’s Christmas was filled with both the usual and the unexpected. Time with family, many presents, too much food, and a lot of sightseeing marked our last Christmas in the US for a while. And of course, our holiday break has been extended by a day with the death of former President Ford.
Because of the stress of Russian class (see the previous few posts…), Shawn and I have decided that we need to take a mini-vacation each month. So over Columbus Day weekend, we took a trip to Baltimore. The train, stingrays, and literary grave sites – what more do you need?
As we were lucky enough to be in the Washington DC area for July 4th, we decided to brave the crowds and show our patriotic sides by going to the National Mall for the concert and fireworks Tuesday night. We were also lazy enough to be late in leaving our apartment and missed the huge thunderstorm that went straight through downtown a few hours before the event. It’s great when laziness works in your favor.
No, we did not do any sort of traditional Memorial Day activities in our nation’s capital. We left that up to the hundreds of thousands of tourists that were here. I’m sure it would have been great to work to push ourselves to the front of the line to see one of the dozen of memorials around the city, but we decided to do the next best thing – leave the city altogether.