all in a day

dear life,
i never know what to expect from you. thanks for being awesome.
elaina

here is an account of my saturday.

i wake up ridiculously early (aka 7 AM), get dressed and head to the gym. i work on my fitness b/c that's what brings me happiness. i just love going to the gym. the workout just brings a certain amount of clarity to my brain. helps me recenter and make sure my head is facing the correct direction.

after the gym, i went home to take a shower and that was a no-go b/c the water in the house is now coming out gray and i'm not too keen on showering in dirt. so i text messaged my buddy that i was meeting for breakfast and asked if he would be ashamed to eat breakfast with an unshowered person. luckily he said it was fine and i headed over to dots. dots is a cute little local diner that was once featured on the show diners, drive-ins and dives on the food network. i had french toast that was delicious. better than the french toast was being able to talk to jim about life. he's a great friend and i appreciate being able to talk to someone and not feel like they're being judgemental about the things i'm saying. also i know he will call me out if i'm being a nutter and start saying things like 'love beard.'

after breakfast i went back to the gym to shower. the shower at the gym is a magical place. there is an endless supply of clean, hot water. additionally, you can pick up tips for the best things to do while visiting st kitts island.

from what i hear on the streets, or actually the shower, it's a beautiful island where the people are extremely trusting of tourists, don't steal your change from your hotel and don't beg like they do in jamaica. also, if you go to the interior of the island there is a mountain you can stand on and get an amazing view of the island and the ocean. also, there is a marriott there that is brand new, all inclusive and fabulous.

i want to go to there.

a couple hours later, anne and i started our journey to the nation's capital. i love the dc. with all my heart. we started the journey with our usual good times in the car. i have the most fun with anne, always. we get to the furthest south metro station where we met up with my hockey ticket supplier, kevin. we get into kevin's car, do the exchange and he kindly offered to drive us into the city. after a bit of driving around the city lost, we found the museum we were looking for... the national building museum.

we get inside and there was some sort of winter wonderland going on. we were a little confused by the number of christmas trees and lights and people but we continued our journey to the exhibit anne wanted to see. so we're walking through the second level and we pass a table with a stack of donuts, which, obviously i was surprised to see. i mean, who just puts out a plate of donuts in a museum. at this point i decide it would be a good idea to point this out and loudly i say 'look, there are donuts!' at which point anne sees this:

yes, ladies and gentlemen, will schuester of glee fame. smirking and then shrugging at my donut comment and then quickly walking away as if to say 'hey what a dork! she's all excited about donuts and a famous person is standing right here. loser.' at this point anne turns to me and is like 'that was mr schu!' and i'm just like, what? i was looking at donuts i missed it! here's mr schu 2 feet from me and i'm too busy checking out his donuts to notice. we continue on to the exhibit which was really cool and then we hear it. mr schu singing us christmas songs. he was there to film some christmas special for tnt. so i got to see him after all. i got to see him and hear him singing 'come all ye faithful' my favorite christmas song. shortly after that we were not too nicely tossed from the museum. thems the breaks.

after the museum we started a quest to find some indian food and on the way we stumbled upon a street market. i bought a delicious cookie. two pieces of short bread with jelly filling and powdered sugar. the top piece of short bread had a bell cut in it for the jelly to poke through and some how the powdered sugar didn't get on the jelly bell. so good.

the market basically ended at the front door of the indian restaurant. so good. the food was fabulous. they have the best lamb and oooh rice pudding. it was a delicious meal. man, i love indian food.

next stop was the caps game. ok first, i'm just going to let you know the caps lost. we were robbed but whatever, it happens. the game was an absolute blast. we were playing colorado. we recently traded one of our players for one of theirs. it was an extremely tense game that involved lots of fighting and yelling and everything that is good about hockey. they have this new thing where they drop shirts from the ceiling on little parachutes. it was amazing. just like the hunger games. we even got to see knuble score his 250th career goal. knuuuuuuble.

overall it was a magical day. it's not every day you get mocked by a celebrity.