[Back to December snapshots.]

Before I move on to the Christmas vacation photos and New Year's resolutions, a few snapshots from my December DC happenings:

row 1: Christmas tour of the White House // my baby turquoise tinsel Christmas tree

row 2: a Chic Coco Christmas party // A Christmas Carol at Ford's Theater with Chad

row 3: a Georgetown basketball game // my special new diet dew goblet, prezzie from the roomie

row 4: a stupid question // a good question

row 5: more Christmas at the White House // photo shoot before Tim's office party

row 6: an evening of tapas + flamenco dancing // happiness comes in kate spade boxes

[I see the light(s).]

Favorite restaurant surprise. National Harbor. Drive. Country and carols. Navigation fail. Snowmen, dancing trees, and sneaky Santas. Cold nosies. Circles. Good ones.

I appreciate a boy who will drive me around for hours just to see Christmas lights.

[Segway tour of Annapolis.]

So there's nothing dorkier than people who ride Segways...and like the true dork I am, I was SO excited when my good friend Tim invited me to take a Segway tour of downtown Annapolis. I was 100% convinced I was going to pull a George Bush and fall on my face, but it turns out that riding a Segway is actually really natural and intuitive. If you want to go forward, you lean slightly forward, and if you want to slow down, stop, or back up, you lean back. Most importantly, if you need to pose, it keeps you balanced. It's a really fun and freeing experience - at one point our tourguide let us go as fast as we wanted (the Segs go up to about 15 mph), so Tim and I had fun zooming around.

These were our speed demon faces:

Tim and I met years ago one weekend when he was down visiting New York from Cornell. Since then we've kept in touch on and off, and I'm so excited that we finally live near each other and can see each other more often! We had such an amazing little day zooming around the historic city and then toodling around antique shops, a cute bookstore, and - of course - an old cemetery. Can't wait for our next adventure - a Segway tour of DC perhaps?? ;)