Georgetown

One of my roommates and I recently took a trip to Georgetown. While planning the destination, I quickly found out that there aren’t any Metro stops near it.  However, that was quickly resolved.  Every once in a while when I am looking out the window or from the balcony of my apartment, I see a bus that says “Georgetown” on it.  After doing some researching, I found it that type of bus was call the Circulator and it leaves from Union Station.  Bingo, simple means of transportation to Georgetown.  Plus, it is only a dollar.  Well, it was a dollar.  DC has boosted Metro costs across the board so I don’t know if the Circulator got a new price or not.

I think I need to take this time to congratulate D.C. for its public transportation.  Not only is it reliable, on time, and frequent (during the work week, weekends are a totally different story).  But it’s also very clean.  These qualities are not the types of things you find in Pittsburgh. 

So, I make it to Georgetown University from the Circulator.  I must say how nice that area is.  The campus is beautiful with a lot of very big buildings.  Also the neighborhood surrounding the school is very quiet and cozy feeling.  A good amount of construction was going on in one location of campus.  No idea what they were in the process of building though.  This weekend was apparently an alumni weekend.  They were getting ready by setting up tables and putting up signs welcoming back Alumni.  I didn’t see many students walking around.  I don’t know if I should chalk that up to the fact that it is summertime or maybe the fact that they may have all be walking around down where all the shops are.  While on the bus, we drove up M St NW which was full of restaurants and shops.  After we were done exploring the campus, that is where we headed.

Now it is time for another edition of NATE’S FOOD REVIEW!  Being an unpaid intern, you have a very small budget.  So, sometimes, it’s very hard to find a place that you want eat when you are out and about which won’t make your wallet scream at you.  We found this place called Moby Dick’s House of Kabob.  It’s apparently a chain around here.  I ordered a Lamb Platter.  It was pretty good.  Kind of like a deconstructed gyro. The restaurant in Georgetown is very small.  It has 3 tables and one counter for you to sit at.  A lot of people seemed to be ordering their food for to go instead of standing around waiting for people to leave like me and my roommate had to do because we had nowhere else to go to eat the food.  I would try it again but perhaps at one of their bigger places.