Out at a Party with Rahm Emanuel!

With Rahm!

Some of Rebecca's Friends including Mike Allen, who the New York Times says is "The Man the White House Wakes Up To!

Going to the Party at Buddha Bar!

What an evening! Yesterday was the best day of "work" ever!

Rebecca and I went to pick up Sarah to work on some things before the party at this fun little place called Hudson's. We chatted about the possibility of her hosting one of her charity events there and met the manager who was very nice.

Then we went to the Buddha Bar for a party hosted by Bloomberg for Rahm Emanuel's former chief of staff. We were a little early and there was another party there before ours but Rebecca saw some people we knew so we chatted with them for awhile and ended up getting our picture taken by DC Magazine! Maybe we'll be in the next issue?

When people started to file out we got a table and chatted with one of Rebecca's friends from the previous party and his friend from the British Embassy. They were really funny and ended up inviting us to the Embassy this Saturday to watch the England vs. US game! Then after this party we are going with Rebecca to a CNN reunion party with lots of cool people, so it won't be a boring weekend!

Anyways, when the party started to fill in we went to mingle and met some really cool people! First we went and met Rahm, then we met some of the people putting on the event, then we met a lot more people but what I remember was an ambassador, two of the people who helped start MTV, the wife of someone high in the CIA, and many others! All very cool!

Georgetown!

At Georgetown Cupcake with my Stuart, Allison, and Madelyn

Today was a free day so I drove to Georgetown to meet up with some friends! I finally figured out how to park by the theatre and met up with Stuart and Allison. I thought I knew the way to the cupcake place but I was definitely wrong and we ended up having to turn around. When we finally found it I knew we were there because of the line down the street to get in!

Since we had enough time we decided to wait outside in line and that is where the picture came from. The cupcakes were good! Better than Hello Cupcake!

I bought extras to bring back to the boys and then we went to the theatre. We saw Get Him to the Greek which was pretty raunchy but funny and then went in search for a place to eat.

Since we are all pretty indecisive this took awhile to decide where to go. We ended up going to Snap! which is a crepe/panini shop with a cute outdoor patio and we tried to figure out how to get everyone home.

Stuart was planning on taking Allison back when I asked her where she lived. At first I didn't really know where she was talking about and then when she told me her main streets I found out she lives literally across the street from me!

This was exciting news because now we can go to all of our activities together!

Here's a map of how close we are, zoom out so you can really see!

View My Saved Places in a larger map

Fun with the Dupin Boys!

Finn, the youngest, really liked his cotton candy!

Gus and Max racing

Thomas (Max's friend), Max and Gus fishing

Finn carrying his horse

The boys with their cotton candy!

Today Rebecca had to work and go to the Emmys (she's nominated for one!) so I've been taking care of the boys this morning!

Thomas's sisters go to a French immersion school which was having a festival in Bethesda so I drove them over there and we had a great time! There were lots of games and prizes so they loved that!

Finn sadly wasn't big enough to ride the horse so he got to play some other games and won more tickets than the older boys.

Now were back at home playing Wii Lego Star Wars and ordering pizza so it's been a pretty good Saturday!!

Thrills and Spills!

ABC-7!

On the Set

With Rebecca's Old Intern Gaby

The Assignment Desk

Our little area

Entrance

The Set While They Were Filming

Weather Area

Front Entrance

The Building

Today was quite the adventure! Rebecca is sick and doesn't have a voice so she couldn't come into work today. Since I don't start work until 11:30, the bus I would have needed didn't run then. Soo what did we do? I had to drive Rebecca's car, by myself to work! AHH! Talk about hitting the ground running on learning my way around! So I get the directions and immediately veer off course, I don't think I ended up taking any of the roads Rebecca told me kept me off the highway because I'm pretty sure I ended up on three different ones by the time I got there and somehow ended up on a different bridge than the one I was supposed to take!

Miraculously, I ended up there without having to turn around anywhere and was able to park the car in the garage with no problems!

So the work day started off really slow and that's when I was able to go snap all of these pictures. Then I got assigned to go out to film a package (a segment where a reporter goes out and interviews people) with a different anchor, Kathy. Kathy is a one woman show who hosts, films, and edits all of her work so she definitely needed some help with her equipment.

Our story was on a construction company suing DC for hiring a company to build a hotel for their convention center without really shopping around. Not exactly ground breaking stuff but still very interesting!

We went and picked up one of the guys working on the project and we went out to shoot on the site. It was unbelievably hot! So we got all of the footage and then rushed to the Attorney Generals office to get a quick interview with him, turns out we were at the wrong office! So we had to get over to the other building as quickly as possible and there were not parking spots!

So I stayed in the car while Kathy ran up to get the shot as I sat, parked illegally on the street. This didn't seem like a big deal till a cop came up to me and asked if I was looking for a ticket. As opposed to saying "Oh no my boss is just across this street going through security to interview the Attorney General and will be back in about 20 minutes," I replied with "My friend just ran to that ATM there and will be right back!" Luckily he was satisfied enough with that to move on, so no DC tickets for me yet!

When we got back we watched the anchor who was filling in for Rebecca and then I went to go eat with the old intern and her friends for their last night in DC. Nothing eventful happened from there and I got back in the dark fairly easily so I'm feeling much better about my navigation skills!

Oh ya!

DC Embarrassing Moment #1: Today I bought some groceries at CVS in the ABC building. As I went to grab some Dr. Pepper cans, 2 fell down and proceeded to spew all over myself, Gaby, and the floor. I will now be known to them as the Dr. Pepper girl... lovely

Go to http://www.washingtonbusinesstonight.com/ if you want to see Rebecca's interview with George Allen, the guy I read the book on, and the segment I worked on today!

It doesn't work on my mac but if you have windows media 10 or higher it will!

My Job!

I ate all my mexican food!

National Building Museum

Canadian Embassy

Dana and I at the Canadian Embassy

So I haven't taken any pictures of my job yet, but let me back track first!

I finished Memorial day weekend by hanging out with Dana and the brother of an OU Professor (Dr. Landis). We went to the Newseum where it has the whole history of journalism, which I thought was a pretty appropriate starting place considering my internship. It was also crazy expensive to get in, like $20! But it was worth it to see all of the exhibits and to understand the industry a little more.

Next we went to a really great Mexican restaurant where I ordered amazing seafood quesadillas and ate the whole thing! (Which is a big deal if you've ever eaten Mexican with me before).

Then we decided to go to the zoo and wander for a bit and I got some really cute pictures of animals, that I didn't have room to put up. We almost got locked out from being there so late and I thought we were going to have to climb the fence! Luckily it all worked out.

The next day I started my job at ABC-7 and learned about how the newsroom works and watched Rebecca do her show. It all seems really cool and being behind the scenes is really different than watching it on TV.

Today was Gus's (the middle of Rebecca's three boys) play of Goldilocks and the three bears. He was a little pig, which was already funny, and then during the songs he stood up and danced around when all the other kids were shy. It was really cute and I told Rebecca, not only is he a little pig, he's a ham! I will put pictures of them up later.

At work Rebecca was having George Allen, the former governor and senator from Virginia, on her show. She said she needed to read his book that he has just written, What Washington Could Learn from Sports, before the show. What I later realized that that meant me reading the book and highlighting all of the important parts, which was really challenging but fun and then I went through all the news articles about him while she worked on our other story.

Brace yourself AT&T potential customers, apparently they are changing all of their new plans so that there will no longer be unlimited plans. (If you are already with them you're fine) So if you are planning on getting an iPod or iPad, plan on paying for all of the megabites that you use on the internet and even texts. We drove to the Washington Post to get an interview from their technology reporter and then went outside an AT&T store to interview people about the change.

It was the other intern and my job to get the people to interview which is surprisingly hard. I honestly felt like I was on the South Oval trying to pass out flyers and convince students to come to an event haha! It was really cool and the link is below if you want to see what exactly it was that we worked on!

http://www.wjla.com/news/stories/0610/742091_video.html?ref=newsstory

After work I went to the OU DC Alumni Club dinner where we got to mingle with all of the other OU interns and alumni. This was the first time I saw my other friends and I received my internship scholarship! It was fun to see everyone and sort of made it feel like we were back in Norman tonight!

New Adventures in Washington DC!

So I'm Back!!

A new summer with new adventures, travels and friends! I arrived in DC today where my Aunt Polly picked me up from the airport and I'm staying with her until Tuesday. Tomorrow my grandma and other family is coming to visit which should be really fun!

Right now as I type a large dalmatian is watching with me with a stuffed snake and is pretty funny!

Pictures to come!

Rome

Picture 1: In front of the Trevi Fountain

Picture 2: Inside St. Peters, so beautiful!

Picture 3: Vatican!

Picture 4: Roman Forum!

Picture 5: Coliseum!

So Rome was an amazing experience!! Sorry my posts are short now but I have to fit everything in before I come home... TOMORROW!! YAY I miss you all so so so much!!!!!!

Anyways, we only had one day to really experience Rome since Jordan left the next day so we did as much as we could in 1 day! haha

Our hotel was really close to the Coliseum, so we started there and it was really cool! Pretty much how I expected it to be, massive and pretty destroyed, but you still get the idea. After we went to the Roman Forum, which would not have been that cool if Meagan wasn't practically an expert on them and described all of the ruins and what they meant and all sorts of cool facts. She was definitely helpful!

After that we walked to a lot more famous sights like the Pantheon and then to the fountain where Tom Hanks saves the future Pope in Angels and Demons haha! It was pretty late by this point, so we had dinner and then headed back to sleep before it got dark.

The next day Jordan had to leave so Meagan and I got her on the train and then we did some more sight seeing. We went to the Vatican and it was so cool being there. The only problem was a huge rain storm was coming! So we pretty much ran back to the metro and didn't get wet, till we got to our stop and it was absolutely pouring rain and wouldn't stop! So we just used our little umbrella and ran to our hotel. We were totally drenched when we got there but it was pretty funny.

When the rain finally stopped we headed out to the Trevi Fountain. It was really beautiful and huge, but so crowded! We walked around and found a cheese store where I bought some good parmesan and we asked the workers where they ate that wasn't touristy. They gave us a map and again I was skeptical, till we got there and it was the most delicious pasta ever lol!

The next day I headed to Paris, where I am now and have been with my friends, but not really sight seeing just enjoying myself so I don't have any pictures.

But I will be home so soon and cannot wait!!!! Love you all so much!