4th July!

I just had 2 lovely days with Cerys and her family :) As much as I love it here, it was so nice to see some familiar faces and the English accent!!!

I got dropped off at their hotel where I booked my own king-size room (living the high life..) at around 8pm cos it's only a 25minute ride to Arlington from Reston which was cool. As soon as I got there Cerys met me in the beautiful lobby and we went on up to my room. It was amazzzing!!

Pwiddy bathroom

We went to a meal with just me her and Tom cos their parents went to watch a baseball game. We went to a burger place so when in Rome... this is my chilli burger!!

This is how excited we were about the humongous bed! We led diagonally and couldn't reach the other side. That's what I need in my life 

People said on instagram she looks naked hahahah

We pushed this down the corridor.. hahaha

wearing our hotel dressing gowns!

standard self pic on cerys' ipad! rude not to

reunited!!!

After all our fun and games, we decided to get to sleep cos we had an extremely early start (getting up at 7:30.. ew) to get breakfast and head out to the metro en route to DC! It was literally like 5 stops away which took less than 10mins which was cool and cos we were so early, the metro station wasn't that busy! As soon as I stepped into DC I knew it was gona be horrendously hot so regretted wearing black haha idiot. We had such an amazing view for the parade, just sat on the kerb. We were early so had to wait about an hour for it to start. It was good but I think I'd have enjoyed it more if it wasn't so friggin hot!!

Ready for our big day in DC!

The Metro station (shake shake, shake shake, shake it..) 

casually sipping on our starbucks..

train coming!!

sibling love

cerys loving life!

ooh get me and the needle in the background ;)

Aw you guysss

'do you think obama will be in the parade' 'hahahah ain't no obama gon' be in the parade... you have a sexy accent' oh cringe.

before all the crowds!

sitting in 34degrees isn't fun! we packed up and went for lunch in beautiful AIR CON!!

the needle

scenic!

huuuge roads

The White House where Obama was having a big party so this was as close as we were allowed :(

Doing the same pose in front of the needle hahaha

Aw look at us Brits

Some of the parade

cracks me up everytime hahahaha

'uncle sam' whoever he is

After being in the sun for about 6 hours straight, we decided to head back to the hotel and have a rest/swim/nap until we went out for dinner later than evening at Vapiano's. It's an Italian and it's so nice and so cheap!! We have one here in Reston so I knew it was nice. I love knowing mwahaha. We were a little late driving to the fireworks back in DC and they started going on whilst we were en route so we parked up at a 'gas station' and watched them from there. They were insanely good! Definitely live up to the hype :) during this time, a car got pulled over by a policeman and then 2 other police cars came so that was quite entertaining haha. 

After that I had to say goodbye to them all cos Mike was picking me up :( 

It was so nice to see them!! Really missing all the friends and family atm but I'm so busy I don't get much chance to think about it haha. The thing I hate the most is the time difference!! I'm only ever free on the occasional evening which is the early AM's for home so I don't get much chance to Skype anyone!

Feel very lucky that I can say I've been in Washington DC (which isn't actually counted as a State!!) on 4th July 2012. 

It's still not fully registered that I'm here.. it's like I'm in a bubble!

I'm excited for tomorrow cos I'm getting highlights :) yay!

Bec xxxxx

I MISS WEYMOUTH! :O

Time Flies...

I realise I haven't updated in quite a while and I've had some moaning about it from my demanding fans (this goes out to you mum). I seriously need to keep tabs on my whereabouts. I thought this would be enough but I'm even too busy/lazy to do this sometimes, so here's what I remember (keyword) of the past week and a half!

reader's notes: be prepared for an extremely long blog entry.


So! I visited our really pretty Lake Anne with some of my adoptive family where they had a mega cute vintage book store so I was in my element cos of my current book worming love.

'titanic'

So me and Katy (Jen's daughter) went on our own exploration adventure here and ended up being chased by an american hobo. Up there with my top 10 scariest moments of my life, let's not lie. Katy swears she shouted to me 'run Becca, save yourself', but rest assured, she did not. Though, she did seem less scared than me haha.. awkward that she's only 13.

I attended a 'red carpet event' for Perfect Wedding Guide which was basically this really lush event held for networking. I took some photos for them that they made into a video which made me excited cos my work is now for a company. Obviously as I'm an intern for Vita Images, they were credited so I'm under that name :). Because it was all based on networking, everyone was there who had to do with booking a wedding. From photographers and DJ's to food and florists! Lots of people asked for my business card but I don't currently have one so I just handed out Vita Images'. I felt so professional!! Here's the video. (My photos are the majority of close ups and I also held the light reflector at the side when Christi Weems speaks ;) I know, impressive...)

I made Jen come into the photobooth with me mwahahaha

I now can't remember much else so I'll refresh my own memory by uploading my most recent instagram entries :)

Katy and her cousins Ashleigh and Noah swim and had a tournament so afterwards we went to a place called 'silver diner' and it was so classic american - exactly how you'd expect it to be, minus the rollerblades (or maybe that's just me)

Realised where I'd visited in a matter of 2 weeks in May. I literally feel so blessed.

Sitting in the scorching sunshine by the pool reading my favourite person in the whole world's diary extracts. The legend that is Karl Pilkington.

Had my first American Chinese!! How amazing is this packaging?! I didn't think it was as nice as the Chineses back home (if that makes sense) but the packaging definitely made up for it!

Exciting!!

Was speaking to my mum over the app 'textie' and she sent me this pic of her and my dad the babe hahah made me laugh

The weather for last week! Pretty sure it's even hotter here, crazy

The roses I left the red carpet event with! I didn't steal them, they gave them to me! Who needs a boyfriend?! There were 25 red roses.

The cockroach me and Jen saw on a man's bonnet of his car!! It's next to a quarter, similar to a 10p.

What a beautiful house! The fact it was abandoned made it creepy.

Jen taking Dorothy's grad photos.

I bought some banana bread off Amish people at the farmer's market. It was mouth-wateringly good.

Kinda addicted to make up. I went shopping at the huge Mall called 'Tysons Corner' with Dorothy so it was a kind of bonding experience :) 

Watched Rock of Ages at the cinema. It's bloody amazing. My guilty pleasure here are milk duds.

Extra ice in my freezer cos of our huge storm. Oh yeah, we had no electricity for 3 days!!! Luckily Jen's mom has gone down to Mississippi for a couple of weeks and she had electric in her house so we stayed there! It was so scary!!!

I assisted 4 photographers at a model photoshoot at a cute hotel. It was an all day shoot so I was there from 10am-10pm. It was such a good day and I learnt a lot about models - how to pose them, lighting, back drops, and so much more! Really happy and grateful I was given the opportunity. This is my food I ate from McAllister's deli. Chili salad and chili spud, extra jalapeños! 

A shot of the beautiful sky from the room!

The outside hotel rooftop pool! BEAUT! I wish I coulda stayed and sunbathed. I'm waiting for Jen to send me my photos I took of a model here so keep your eyes peeled for an update (unless I get them before I publish this...)

The 2 HUGE trees which got knocked down during the storm. This is me beautifully modelling LOL and the orange thing is a towel cos we lost their cousin's cat, Star, as he JUMPED out of the top window during the storm but he's been miraculously found back at their house after 4 days of being missing. It's crazy cos he's not allowed outside and we live a 10min drive away from them so I have no idea how he found his way back!!

At Lake Audbon. On our walk to the lake, we went to a different part where a man was laying on a lielo (dno how it's spelt) in the water saying 'you gona come innn?' and i was like 'umm no, i'm alright thanks' and he replied with 'i promise you wont drownnn' in a really southern accent. Hm, tempting...

Watching Gabe's lacrosse match on the proper American stands!! :) We went to IHOP afterwards cos Adam, Jen's eldest son, came down from Orange where he sky dives. IHOP pancakes are the bloody cats pyjamas.

Sorry it's so bloody long, I'll try to update a bit more regularly!! 

over and out xxx