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Alyssa Allen

Last day.

Realizing that the last day of a wonderful trip is here is hard to acknowledge. Waking up this morning and realizing that I only have one more day with new and old friends was hard to wrap my mind around.

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Friday nights at conventions

by Alyssa Allen on November 14, 2009

Everyone goes out on the weekends (don’t act like you don’t). D.C. is no different. The only difference is some of the people you’re with and what you guys end up doing.

Each year the convention hotel holds its famous dance. The dances are on Friday and Saturday and are pretty fun….if that’s what you’re into.

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Day one. (The first full day in D.C.)

Today was my first full day in Washington D.C. I woke up early this morning to go have breakfast. And by early, I mean like 6 A.M. I walked around the hotel and ended up going to a near by McDonalds with one of my roommates. After breakfast, we went back to the hotel room to meet up with our other roommates and we decided to go get Starbucks. We were told it was one block away. Who knew one means six in D.C.? Not us. Ha ha!

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