Happy busy two days in DC.

We arrived Thursday 5pm after departing home 11pm the night before. The flights were smooth just the interrupted sleep was hard on me. After we arrived, my Portuguese teacher picked us up from the airport, stopped at my former assistant from Manila’s apartment to pick up air mattress, and we got our little French home around 5:30pm. We were exhausted so we stayed in and got Amazon fresh delivery.

After a very nice sleep, I felt ready to go for a run at my favorite running path in the entire world! I can’t describe how happy I was during the entire run! I want to live here!!!

I got home, showered, ate and we left home for a busy shopping day. First Nordstrom rack and we all got few things.

Next step was chipotle, Sofia’s favorite fast food, the burrito was so big, she did her best to finish 3/4 of it.

Then we stopped by the playground we visited almost everyday during our month long stay during the pandemic, 5 years ago! Girls still remember it.

Next was Georgetown, mostly Tjmaxx for more deals. And got free ice cream.

Final stop, Trader Joe’s, our favorite groceries store in the world. We got so much!

Then I made dinner for us and had for-us-late dinner at 7:30pm. The sun was up until past 8:30 so we all stayed up almost 9:30pm to get to sleep mood.

Our home is really tiny, the person who sublet for us (from my work) is a nice French lady. Despite how small it is, it’s super French style and cute. The air mattress occupies the entire living room so we only pump it up for sleep.

Today Saturday I did my long run, another amazing run, making plans to find a small house near by for retirement (gosh! I can’t decide where I want to retire now).

We then spent too long time doing nothing (coloring, manicure, just chill), and finally left home by 11:15am for a quick target visit

Then got back for more Trader Joe’s quick food. Orange chicken!

It was super hot so we stayed chill at home until 5pm for a quick visit to Apple Store to repair my AirPod. And got back walking through the lovely neighborhood.

Tomorrow we will take Sofia to her camp, sad sad. But she’s excited and I’m so proud of her. This is her second sleep away camp. Last time was 5 years ago when she was barely 8 years old. Now she will have a camp at a university for 3 weeks, all by herself, including doing laundry on weekend.

Meanwhile Lizzy and I will do our work, I go to office while she goes to her day camp. then be each others bestie for three weeks. How fun!

I feel extremely grateful and privilege to be living this summer the way we planned out.

My mind keeps popping out the following:

This is the best time of my life!