Where In The World Have I Been??

You may have noticed that I've been MIA for about 3 weeks.... I promise I have a good reason! On Thursday, April 23 I, along with my Varsity group, left for Washington DC at 6 in the morning. Why were we going to DC at 6am on a Thursday, you might ask?? Well, some of you might know what AWANA is, but in case you don't I'll explain: AWANA is an organization where kids of all ages (separated into age groups, of course) come together to memorize scripture, play games, and have fun!

The high school group is actually called Journey, but we call it Varsity. Every year AWANA holds a national games and quizzing competition called Summit, which was held in Washington DC this year. And that is why I went to DC at 6am on a Thursday morning.

So I thought I'd narrate my trip and share my (many, many) pictures, and I apologize in advance because there are SO many:D

Day One: Thursday

Bojangles at 9 in the morning. No makeup and everything. Just a heads up: my selfie face is the exact same every time, so you'll see a lot of my tongue... 





We have arrived!!

My lovely and crazy roommates!! Madeline on the left and Emily on the right.

Triplet-ing??   

Day Two: Friday



My first Frosted Lemonade from Chik-Fil-A!! So delicious, by the way;)

 



I have issues

Annalise's photobomb game is ON POINT!!

I don't know why this pic is blurry...

*steam coming out of ears* 

What do we do when we're waiting for a tree to be moved off of the road?? Lay in a random person's yard, of course!!

 

Me and Mads 

Tree huggerrrs

Kayla says she likes taking pictures with me because I'm almost as short as she is:)

The beautiful Great Falls..... and Caleb to the far right.

We so cute 

Of course we had to do an artsy Pinterest picture 

This was a great Titanic reenactment until Ransome decided that falling asleep on Walter would be a great idea:) 

And Dana comes in with the greatest photobomb of the day!!

Balancing precariously over a canal?? No big deal!!

My beautiful Kristie

 

Day Three: Saturday 

On our way to the games!! 

The team

 Me running Agility. Spoiler Alert: I won!!

 Three-Way Tug. Which we also won.

 Me being really serious and intense before the Balloon Relay

 

 Waiting for Nathan to get on the same knee as everyone else, which happened to be the knee he had surgery on. Oops;)

 But he worked it out

 Silver Circle winners!! That basically means we placed 4th overall.

SQUAD GOALS 

My beautiful Aunt Al came to watch us dominate the Silver Circle!! She also brought me an amazing gift bag that was filled with lots of goodies, including these throwback edition lip balms!!

On our way to the Closing Ceremonies

 

Kayla made me take off my heels because I was so much taller than her with them on:)

We are all SO proud of Kayla for earning her Citation!! Basically, it involves a lot of Bible memorization, community service, and reading through the entire Bible. It's a great accomplishment that a lot of people don't reach.

L to R: Madeline, Emily, Kayla, me, Olivia

We're very interested in the Gold Round of quizzing, really.

 

IHOP 

My beautiful Madeline

I stand by that statement 

Denim Squad minus Olivia



 

Day Four: Sunday 

On Sunday morning we took the Metro into the city, which was about an hours ride

The Washington Monument

 

 





I love these girls so much!

I apologize for the weird formatting that is happening with these four pictures. Blogger is dying on me:(



 When Bekah and I try to take a normal picture

007

 



 Probably my favorite picture from Summit

 

 On top of the world

 

The girls, minus Annalise and Olivia

                

 Selfies with Lil Kay

 

Sarah and I representing at the WWII Memorial

 

Let's take a stroll down to the Lincoln memorial, shall we??

A lot of stretching went into this picture, but it was sooo worth it!!

 

 El Presidente

 

Typical tourist-y picture;)

 

Madeline and I enjoying some highly overpriced frozen lemonade

 

La Casa Blanca

Wow, I'm using Spanish a lot. Probably because I'm about to take my final exam....

Anyway, doesn't this look like a painting?? I don't why, but it does and I love it!!

Air and Space Museum

 A chill pigeon. I don't even remember what this was for, but the pigeon was cool.

After we got back, some of us went to Cobblestone Creamery, where I got Pink Champagne Sorbet!! I was pretty excited, and it was delicious, by the way. 

 

We came back on Monday, but there are no pictures because everyone was exhausted and looked terrible. So that, believe it or not, is the shortened version of my weekend in DC. It was so much fun, and I won't ever forget it!!

 

For the next Music Monday, I'll show y'all my road trip playlist and talk about some specific songs.

 

Until we meet again

Callan