Saturday started off early with the boyfriend waking up at 7am to go play flag football (I had good intentions the night before to go, but 7am came by way too early and didn't end up happening). Upon his return home, we met up with his co-worker who drove us to his company picnic at a park on the Potomac. The picnic was fun (despite the bees attacking me), the food was delicious, and the kids games were surprisingly very entertaining. That evening, we were supposed to meet-up on the Georgetown Waterfront with my friend Jesica who is leaving for a work trip to Afghanistan for a late dinner. The boyfriend had seen a jacket at H&M that he wanted to get earlier in the week, and since we had time to kill, we decided to head down to Georgetown early to check it out. We nextbused it to find that the next bus was coming in 1 minute so we took off running for the bus stop to catch it just in time. Right about this time is when things went down hill.
We arrived at H&M only to find that they didn't have the jacket there - on a separate note, that location is 3 stories and only 1/2 of 1 floor has men's clothing, poor guys, they get totally gypped. We hit up a few more shops before they started to close, and then boyfriend started to get really tried and not feel well. I suggested we go to Starbucks, since my mom had sent me a gift card earlier, and we got our drinks and people watched. Then we decided to walk around the waterfront
for a bit, and while sitting there looking at the boats, boyfriend said he was feeling very ill. We had about 30 minutes until the dinner reservations, so I said just hold out until then, and then you can head home, to which he agreed. After about 15 minutes boyfriend said he couldn't make it any longer and had to go home then. After putting him in a cab, I sat by the waterfront alone and decided to call my mom to entertain me until other dinner guests arrived. Thank goodness for Jason (who is not habitually late like the rest of group) who showed up a bit early so we were able to catch up.Dinner was fun - good friends and good food and nice to catch up with everyone. After dinner, there was much debate as to where to go out afterwards. After lots of standing around, I too started not feeling great and decided to head back to the boyfriend's to check up on him. After arriving there, I suddenly started not feeling well either, and was up until 3am sick.
We still have no idea what made us so sick. At first we both thought it was the food from the picnic, but after figuring out no one else was sick, the only other thing we could come up with was the Potomac River (we wandered down to the shore and touched the water and found a shell which we took with us). We both made it out to soccer games the next afternoon though, so it wasn't a total loss of a weekend.
On a completely unrelated note, have you tried a Reese's Stick yet? I had one today and they are quite addicting - takes like a Kit Kat with peanut butter added and less wafer.
Today is Monday which means another soccer game.
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