Day 3 in NoVA

The next day in the area, we woke up and Abby had a yoga class she was teaching up by Dupont Circle. So, we drove over to Abby’s bellydancing studio, parked there and then walked to the Metro Station. From there, we took the Metro towards Dupont Circle and then walked to the Yoga studio. While Abby, Virginia, and Abby’s mom did Yoga, I had some time to walk around the area on my own. I had a good time walking around, and stopped for some Krispy Creme Doughnuts straight off the conveyor belt. Also, there are a bunch of consulate type places around the circle, and there was even a farmer’s market going on.

After that, I sat in the little park / fountain area in the middle of Dupont circle and did some people-watching for a bit until the ladies got done with yoga.

After Yoga, we hopped back on the Metro and went back to the bellydancing studio where we met up with Virginia’s cousins, Ashley and Allison, to go have a nice lunch. I forget the name of the place, but they made an awesome salad. Virginia got the salad which came with chicken, walnuts, dates, olives, an all sorts of other flat-out awesomeness.

After lunch, it was getting to be time for us to head to Chantilly for the “Bellydancing Expo” that Abby was dancing in. This shindig was held in a local Middle Eastern restaurant / hookah bar and had a surprising amount of dancers in the show. Here are the highlight photos from that.

The show was a good time, but as far as a picture venue, it was less than ideal. Restaurants typically don’t have the best lighting, so I had to resort to using the on-camera flash… one of these days, I need to get my hands on a better flash that I can bounce of the ceiling and whatnot… and learn how to use it…

After the show, it was back to Lexington for the night, then Monday, back to Boone. The trip was uneventful except for the fact that the highways were lined with State Police for the new seat-belt enforcement in VA… but, on the way back, on 91 between Damascus, VA and Mountain City, TN I did see my favorite church sign again…

In other Boone news, the weather has been crappy, the internship search has not been going well, and the bike has been sitting in the driveway collecting spider-webs. But on a few decent days, I did head up to Shady Valley and grab some decent pictures. We’ll end the blog update with pictures from that area.