Imperium!

Hello!

Alex and I had a great time in DC this weekend! We rode the train there on Friday afternoon and we went to the Angelika Pop Up movie theater to see the 5:30pm showing of Imperium!

We had never been to Union Market. It's so cool! It's a huge place filled with all different kinds of food and drinks. We got tacos from Takorean and they were delish!

There are a few walls outside covered in rainbow hearts, so of course we had to take a pic!

The theater we were in held between 50 and 60 people and it was just about full.

The movie was great!! We really loved it and it was so exciting to see a movie that I got to work on in the theater! We saw me twice! In one scene I'm sitting at a desk behind Daniel Radcliffe's character Nate's desk (you can see the back of me) and in another scene you can see my face!

My mom took this picture when my parents watched the movie on On Demand! Thanks, Mama! I'm on the far left :)

That was so exciting! I'm so happy that the movie was playing at a theater near us.

Here are the U.S. cities where Imperium is showing in theaters:

Atlanta, Boston, Cleveland, Columbus, Dallas, Eugene, Houston, Kansas City, Los Angeles, Louisville, New York, Orlando, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Portland OR, Richmond, Sacramento, San Francisco, Seattle, and Washington DC.

You can also watch it On Demand. Links to do that are on this website: Imperium 

After the movie I took a picture with Roger Yawson, who plays the character Usman in the movie! We weren't on set together for Imperium, but several months later we worked together on an episode of Deadly Demands.

I am so happy that I got to be part of such a great movie! It was interesting, disturbing, and really well-done and I'm glad Alex and I got to see it in theaters!

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Abby and Austin Come to Baltimore!

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Last week Alex's sister Abby and her boyfriend Austin came to visit us during their spring break!  First they spent a few days in Philadelphia with Alex and Abby's aunt and uncle, and on Tuesday we drove there to have dinner with everybody and then bring A & A to Baltimore!  We had such a great time with them.

On Tuesday we went to Washington DC and visited the National Air and Space Museum which was really cool!  Austin and I had never been there and it had been a while since Alex and Abby had gone, so I'm really glad we got to go!





There were so many fun exhibits!





We also walked around and looked at the Washington Monument and the Lincoln Memorial.  It wasn't super cold but it was very windy!!

   


We rode the train there and back which was really fun and low stress since we didn't have to worry about finding parking, and well, driving!



The next day we went to the National Aquarium here in Baltimore.  That was also very fun!





It wasn't as crowded as the first time we went in October, so that was nice!  There were still tons of crazy kids, but less :)

We ate lunch afterwards at Miss Shirley's and it was very yummy, of course!



It snowed (grr!) and rained on Friday so we stayed inside for most of the day.  Since it's March Madness, there were lots of basketball games on TV!  We did get a chance to walk around our neighborhood a little bit so we could look at the Washington Monument (the first one :) ) down the street and show them some other things along the way.

We watched a lot of good movies while they were here and we got to play a lot of our games (which we normally don't have enough players for!) so that was really fun!



On their last day here, we drove to the Johns Hopkins Homewood Campus to go to the bookstore and walk around outside.



Then we had lunch in Fell's Point at Jimmy's, a cute diner that Alex and I discovered a few weeks ago, and we walked around that area and around Hampden a little bit, too!



We had such a fun time with our visitors!

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Quick Trip to DC!

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Alex and I just got home from a fun little trip to Washington DC!  Our friend Winslow (his real name is John but we've never called him that!) was in DC from NYC for work and we got to go see him and meet his girlfriend Jillian!  They're staying in this really cool house that they got with the other people from his work through Airbnb.  It was super fancy and even had a clear floor with fish (that I thought were rats at first!) swimming underneath and a rooftop pool!

We went there straight from picking Alex up from school.  We ate some snacks at the house (have you tried candy corn M&Ms?...delish) and met a few of the other people staying there with them.  Then the four of us walked around until we found a place we wanted to eat.  The first place we thought we'd try was called the Well-Dressed Burrito, but the entrance (or not?) was in an alley and the door wouldn't open.  We eventually found what we thought was a Thai restaurant but it was actually a ramen restaurant!  Yay!  I love ramen.  I don't know if they have a website but here's an article about Oki Ramen.

 

 

It was yummy!  Jillian and I both got the Miso ramen, Alex got the pork belly rice bowl, and Winslow got the chicken rice bowl.  We had so much fun hanging out with them!!  We figured out it's probably been a year since we saw Winslow last.  We will have to visit them in NYC soon!  And maybe they will come visit us here, too :)

 

Time to go to bed!  Thanks for reading!

Sondre Lerche in DC!

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We went to a concert in DC last night and got home late so I was just too tired to write anything!!

We got to see Sondre Lerche, an amazingly talented singer-songwriter from Norway, at U Street Music Hall in DC.  It was an amazing show, of course!  This is the third time we've seen him in concert.  The first time was in 2011 at the Old Rock House in St. Louis with Carl, and then we saw him again at the Musical Instrument Museum in Phoenix in 2012.

This time, Teen opened for him.  They're an all-girl band from New York and they were good!
I first heard about Sondre Lerche when I saw the movie Dan in Real Life, which came out in 2007.  I loved the soundtrack and my parents got it for me for Christmas.  I realized that he did the whole soundtrack and started finding all of his other CDs on Amazon, at Bookmans, etc.  His first CD came out in 2001.  

We had a lot of fun!  The venue was all standing and there wasn't much of an incline, plus there were about five guys right in front of us that were all at least 6' 5", so we (mostly I) couldn't see that well, but it was still great!  The place was pretty small and we were semi close to the stage so we were close enough that it didn't really matter.

This weekend is the Baltimore Book Festival so we're getting ready to go to that!  My parents are driving here from Illinois tomorrow and we're so excited to see them!!

Thanks for reading!