SLURPEES!!!

Ok, so I'm going to be a bad blogger - I can tell already.

Anyway, I do need to share with everyone one of my favorite little things about living in DC now. Some of you are already aware of my obsession with Slurpees. Not Icees, not Slushies, but Slurpees. Slurpees are only found at 7-11. When I was a kid there was a 7-11 we could ride our bikes to and we always went to get Slurpees. Then stinking SuperAmerica bought out all the 7-11's and it was the end of Slurpees. Ever since then, whenever I was in a state that still has Slurpees I have to get one... or twelve. I explain it to people as being my childhood in a glass. It's ridiculous really. Anyway, the good news is that DC has 7-11s. As a matter of fact, there is a 7-11 less than a block from my apartment! We won't talk about how many Slurpees I've had so far.

I will tell you about the week my family was here with me when I moved in. While they were here, we went to have a dinner with some family that lives in VA at a restaurant a couple hours away. My family not only joined me in the Slurpee obsession on the way home - they encouraged it. My future brother-in-law and I had two 40-ounce slurpees in the 2 hour drive home... and considered a third! Between the emotional exhaustion of the whole move and the intense sugar - I was a little squirrely!

So was Erick...

Here are some other fun pictures from while they were here moving me in: