DC by night, but first Truckeroo!

This past Friday, I got a call about a food truck festival called Truckeroo. I have heard a lot about food trucks, and the neat atmosphere that comes along with them, but I have never had the opportunity to go to one, so when my friend Riya invited myself and the other interns, I jumped on it! Here is the link if you want to check it out, Truckeroo. 

The festival was great...it consisted of 25 food trucks, with a variety of desserts such as cupcakes, ice-pops, and cookies, and then almost any food you can imagine to be in a food truck, and some you wouldn't imagine, Greek, pizza, burgers, Thai, and Sushi, just to name a few. They had TaKorean. Korean BBQ in a Taco, thats what I wanted to dive into, but it was the longest line, estimated wait of an hour and 10 min-no joke. The average wait was about 45 minutes for every food truck, except the dessert trucks. So we went for a nice ice-pop and people watched for a bit!

 

A lot of the food trucks had employees walking down the lines with iPad's taking orders, I found that interesting. 

They had the famous tail-gate game Cornhole available to play, so we tossed around for a few games. The Canadian had never heard of it before...CrAzY 

 Greek food sold out fast.

So you're probably wondering where I ate. Well....we left. The lines were too outrageous and we decided next month we have to get there right after work to beat the wait. We headed to the famous Ben's Chili Bowl. Now, I am not a chili eater typically, and I am most definitely not a hot-dog eater. But I decided to step out of my shell and attempt to get something a little different.

Don't worry...I didn't get a hot dog with chili otherwise known as a Chili Dog. But I did try a Turkey Chili Dog. I was not a fan. The chili was a mess and the turkey dog tasted like I remember a hot dog tasting 11 years ago. But it was an experience and I am glad I ordered it...

If you're thinking that in this picture it looks like poop is on my hotdog  turkey dog... don't worry, thats exactly how it looked on my aluminum foil. 

Now to the good stuff...DC by night!

It was my roommates last night it town, which is unfortunate because we had just gotten to be pretty close. But I'm sure we will be staying in touch, after-all... he wants be the future president! Chris decided that he wanted to go check out the memorials at night, so we all didn't hesitate at the thougt, and planned our night accordingly. Starting with the Washington....

After, we headed down by the reflection pool which is under renovation-so upsetting. The World War II Memorial is right before that though, along with everything else this night, minus the reflection pool, it was beautiful. 

View of Washington from WWII

Next was Lincoln. All of the lights at the memorials just brought out so much more character to the already incredible structures. 

Chris and I

After leaving these famous steps, we headed towards Jefferson, I was amped because I hadn't seen the Jefferson Memorial yet. It was a loooong walk there, needless to say it was worth it. On the way, we had some great views of the memorials...

Thomas Jefferson Memorial

And after a 30 minute walk of getting lost, being chased by a homeless man, attacked by bugs and hoping a fence, we made it to Jefferson.

Just to be clear, I did not take this picture ^, but my picture did not do this memorial justice and is deceiving because the majority of the building is rounded. Not that none of you haven't seen it before, well never mind...

So the night overall, was perfect. Started with my first Food Truck Festival, dined at a famous spot in D.C., and ended up seeing the Nations most famous structures at midnight just to be in awe of how amazing our country truly is.

I have a lot more from this weekend to post, but I am exhausted and have to be up in 6 hours.

Until then, God Bless