On and on, the days goes on and on...

Last night we went to downtown Bethesda, first to an Irish pub for some trivia, and later on to a place called The barking dog, where they had a salsa night upstairs. The trivia went pretty well in the beginning, Team Sweden weren't in the top but at least in the middle, but then... then they had this theme thing, 10 questions about the same thing, and the theme was... baseball. Bye bye Team Sweden, hello Barking dog!

We met two American guys at the Irish pub, and they followed us to the salsa place. Nessica is a Salsa-holic, so she starts to dance, and then she dances 'til they close, which is perfect because then I can practise my social competence, which I seriously need, haha! I met some really funny people, It was a good night. One person I met told me that I would get really surprised when he told me what he was working with, so I replied: Oh, so your a rocket scientist? And so he was! He actually worked for NASA! I felt like a psychic, which was pretty cool, haha.

Today we've been exercising a lot! We took the bikes from Bethesda to Georgetown, a 45 min ride or so. Nessicas sister and brother joined us, and when we arrived in Georgetown, we had picnic in the grass outside "house of Sweden", a.k.a. the Swedish embassy!

The Swedish embassy, well, at least the corner of it.

After that we went to HM, and then we biked back home, I was in a hurry cause I wanted to see the match between Sweden and Stupid Dolphin Slaughter Country, (but the match was nothing to see). In the end of the biking tour it started to rain, and when it rains here, it RAINS! So I was totally wet when I stepped into the Barking dog. They let me in anyway, and a nice guy at the bar bought me some tea. Or, I was going to pay but the bartender said; no, the man over there is paying. I'm not used to that, that is not Swedish style, unfortunately! We had a nice chat about NHL and about which countries we hate when it comes to sport... I love discussing sport!

Anyway, Portia picked us up at 17.30 and later they took us out for dinner, to a nice Greek restaurant. Portia and Phil are just so wonderful to us! I'm so grateful!

Another good thing that have happened is that they called us from Ivy Mount, they are positive to having us there! So, things are going pretty well here, and tomorrow is a great day too, since we are going to the midnight premiere of Harry Potter. I've never been to a midnight cinema, so I am exited. Sam told me that the movie has already had it's premiere in Sweden, I hope you liked it, if you saw it.

Now I'm gonna keep Nessica company in the bed, like a true wife, haha! We share both bed and cover, it's really cosy :)
XX, Elin