Washington D.C. Trip

I had a conference in Washington D.C. from March 15-17th. I went with a friend of mine, Erin, who is also in Public Health in MT. We had a great time! We ate good food, visited our Senator's staff members in the Senate Building, met Senator Tester (D-MT), did a little shopping (of course!).....and oh ya, we also attended the conference!

We stayed in a really nice hotel (Dupont Hotel in Dupont Circle), but our room was tiny and the layout of the bathroom was really strange. The shower only had a 1/2 wall (seen below in the picture), so all of the water from the shower would literally flood the rest of the bathroom. In order to avoid electricution while drying our hair - we'd have to mop up all the water after every shower! Crazy.

I'm also pretty sure the hotel room was on a direct route to the fire station, because no fewer than 10 times a night were we woken up by fire trucks (sirens and all) went flying by. I'm so used to absolutely no noise (we have to create our own background noise by using humidifiers when we sleep) that I did not sleep well with all that noise in DC!

After building my own house - I have a better appreciation for the construction of buildings. This building (the Capitol) absolutely blows my mind. It is HUGE and it was built when the common conveniences of backhoes, cement trucks, etc. did not exist yet. Amazing.