jfk, concerts and hurricanes

last week ended up being a great week! my big things were going to a talk at the archives on the cuban missile crisis and then going to an Kip Moore/Justin Moore/Eric Church concert! woooo!

so i get emails from the archives among other places on their events and when i saw they were doing a talk on the cuban missile crisis i decided to go. apparently jfk (and many other presidents until nixon) taped their conversations and a book came out on jfk's tapes - including some recordings and since last week was the 50th anniversary of the cuban missile crisis there was a talk by 3 historians and caroline kennedy was introducing the event. so i mentioned it to my friend linds when we were running and she decided to go with me - so we had a fun evening! and what else made it fun was one of the historians - ted widmer used to be the head of the history center where i spent a lot of time in college. and while he left at the end of my sophomore year i saw him a few times and had a chat with him about the american studies major. so we mentioned wac and he chatted with us a little longer and personalized our books! and then caroline chatted with us too, while signing our books! yay! 

the historians and my book - haha!

ted and caroline signing books!

so that was pretty fun! i love going to random events like this and making the best of living somewhere where i can go to these fun talks and lectures! i need to start checking out all the dc colleges to see what they have too for their lectures! (i'm such a dork!)

and the other event i was really looking forward to was seeing kip moore, justin moore and eric church in concert!!! i saw kip moore over the summer when he played at party in the park in charleston and then justin moore last year when he opened for darius rucker and i saw eric church twice back in 2006 when he was just starting out when he opened for rascal flatts! and it was at the patriots center which is small and i went by myself and had a side stage ticket, which i'm a big fan of! so i had a blast hearing 3 guys i love and managed to get some great pictures!

kip moore

kip moore!

 

kip moore singing my fav song "hey pretty girl"

justin moore 

eric church!

more eric church

the fun thing about side view is they come over to the side all the time! i was 10 rows back!

 and then after the concert kip moore was signing autographs so it was great to meet him, especially since after the concert in july i fell in love with him & his music! so that was so fun!

meeting kip moore

kip signed my ticket

so friday night was a blast! i love going to concerts and i don't mind going myself so i'm glad i went. plus getting single seats often means you get better seats! saturday night i went to a coworkers party and because i'm not the biggest fan of halloween my last minute costume was my favorite jets player - darelle revis. in week 3 he tore his acl playing against miami so i wore my knee brace to complete my costume! i never thought i'd wear one of my knee braces for fun! 
and then on sunday i did my 8 mile run with lindser! we ran on the c&o canal path and it was a great morning for it! we did the 8 miles in 1:25 minutes which is around a 10:45 average mile. so i was thrilled with that! next week is 10 miles! and the half is quickly approaching! but the training is going well so that makes me happy!

and this is the 3rd weekend in a row where i've done something in the national park system and in the 9 weeks i've been in dc i've gone to national park 6 of the 9 weekends. yay national parks!

so had the day off today for weather due to the hurricane. it is pretty windy out and getting windier as the day goes on. the worst is to come tonight so hoping for the best. we are in the 5-10 inches of rain and have already gotten about 2, but luckily no flooding around here yet. i've seen pictures of the jersey shore, especially wildwood and it is crazy. hoping the damage isn't too bad. hugs to everyone!