places, on film

{big bear cafe, washington, DC}

{cinnamon bay, st. john}

yankee does dc

{smiling for the camera}

{a sucker for the shade and lots and lots of attention}

{appreciating art}

{artist, eastern market}

{some obama lovin'}

{exotic beads}

{dancers surprised all market visitors}

{start of spring}

{end of winter}

my parents, yankee and i spent a long saturday afternoon enjoying the sun, food, shopping and parks around eastern market.

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1 more day until Saint John!!

(sexy beach pics to come next week)

think warm thoughts...

...and get fucking jealous of me! (and jamie and ben and david and krishnan, too!!)

because in just a few short weeks (let's start the countdown now - 31 days, suckers!) we'll all be escaping this miserable DC weather to shake off our winter blues on the blissfully hot, sunny beaches of St. John. Cinnamon Bay, to be exact. doesn't that just SOUND sexy and beautiful?

so it went a little something like THIS: one cold and blustery evening (think 6 degrees coupled with 5 ft. snow drifts mounted against our house), five friends were cuddled up on the couches of our M Street abode, dreaming aloud of a warm trip outside of the District.

David: why don't we go camping on St. John?
Jamie: tickets look prettttttty cheap
Krishnan: yeah, let's do it! I could use a nice tan!

(elapsed time: 12 hours)

we all bought ourselves tickets to the Virgin Islands on March 25th . easy as pie. spontaneous as can be.

i can see it now..... me and jamie looking like this, and this. while the boys cook us dinner and pick us fresh pineapples (wearing coats made of questionable materials). paradise - HERE WE COME!