As I mentioned last week, I made Maple-Bacon Cupcakes for the Super Bowl Party that was hosted by some other LCWS students. They were really well-received. And gigantic. One of the people I know who tried one was impressed that it was my first ever attempt at making a cake product from scratch, because apparently they tasted like I had made them before. It also amused me that everyone was astounded by the idea of bacon in a cupcake, since it doesn't seem that strange to me, I guess because of Icing on the Cupcake.
On Monday I made roast chicken breast, potatoes, carrots, onions, and andouille. It was fantastic. I was really impressed with myself since I was just making it up as I went along and I only looked at recipes for ideas of time and temperature.
At work I did more filing and accession numbers for books in the GFWC Library. It was a little bittersweet leaving on Friday though, because while I didn’t really like a lot of what I was doing work-wise and the building was never warm, my coworkers in the Women’s History and Resource Center were really nice and they got me a cute card to say thank you. Plus I got to wear jeans to work on Fridays.
On Wednesday we went on a tour of the Pentagon, which was really cool to be able to do and our two guides, one Army, one Navy, were both pretty funny. One of the highlights of the tour was being let in on the Legend of the Purple Water Fountain, which is in a display case on a level we were not allowed to go to. We also got to see the 9/11 memorial and chapel, which are located in the areas where the plane hit the building. The weirdest part of the whole thing though was seeing the quilts that elementary school students had made after the attack, especially the ones by 9 year olds, and realizing that those kids were my age.
On Saturday I went to the Natural History Museum with a few girls from the program. It was really fun getting to know new people and going to that museum, because I remember it pretty well from the last time I was here. We only really got through the first floor though, so I guess I’ll have to go back sometime. Darn. ;)
I think that about wraps up Week 4. Not a whole lot happened, making for a fairly quiet week.
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