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| Happy New Year! |
SMS and I went to Washington for the New Year's weekend. We arrived Friday evening and met Mom and Dad at the Old Ebbitt Grill. SMS and I split half a dozen oysters, yum! I had a delicious Nicoise salad for my main course and overall, it was a great dinner and fun to spend time with Mom and Dad.
The next day, Mom and Dad headed off to Wintergreen for a wild and crazy New Year's Eve. SMS and I went into the city. First, we went to Eastern Market where we ran into a friend of mine from freshman year of high school. It's a little hard to catch up on 20 years in the course of 15 minutes, but it was really cool to see her.
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| Art! |
We went to 7th Hill pizza which was...ok. Not great but it did the job. Afterwards, we drove over to the Mall. We looked at the Hirshhorn sculpture garden on the way over to the Sackler.
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| Red |
The Sackler had some
great exhibitions. We saw the Art of the Qur'an, Turquoise Mountain and Red: Ming Dynasty/Mark Rothko, a visual dialogue on the immensity of the color red (sure). There was also a modern installation inspired by Whistler's
Peacock Room, which is currently undergoing renovation in the Freer. Although I didn't love the modern take, it was pretty cool to see
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| Beautiful Qur'an |
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| Turquoise Mountain: Modern Craftsman, Traditional Techniques |
Our New Year's Eve was really mellow. The next day, we went to the
Udvar-Hazy museum which was really cool. The layout is really logical and the collection is amazing. I highly recommend visiting, even if you're not the biggest aviation fan. I liked the space exhibit and the stunt planes.
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| SR-71 Blackbird |
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