Trains and Tracks

Salutations from the rain and wet District of Columbia! Here is my account of my train ride back! Here's a photo I took of my parents at lunch. Can't you see the family resemblance? Err...guess I should have used my flash here...whoops!

Here are some photos from my train journey, which, I'm sorry to report, was nothing like the Hogwarts Express!

Pretty much all my experience with trains comes from television. Being on a train wasn't like a 1940's movie either. But, hey look! Construction cones!

Cozy chairs. Ps. I think this is around the point the people behind me started to worry about me and why I was taking pictures of the train.

Hello luggage. Please don't fall on my head if we take a turn. Thanks!

Anyone else wanna sing? Took the midnight train going anywheerrreee....

Hello electricity epicenter, keep doing what you do (although I'm not really sure what that is, I'm sure people appreciate it).

Highway down yonder.

Mostly I saw rundown buildings and graffiti. I think graffiti is pretty swell so welcome to my photo montage:
I wonder if it's hard to pick your graffiti name, I struggle with name picking. Getting a blog name was hard enough, and I don't think Katie Lady Loo carries a lot of street cred (I'm working on that).

This was supposed to be a picture of a passing Acela train, turns out they are very very fast. I blinked and they were already in Arkansas. Acela must be french for "Does not mess around."

I peeked for gators here but didn't find any.

Nature, isn't she grand?

Oh hello, I think I met your cousin earlier.

I will call this one "Peeking out the window." Deep! Intellectually stimulating!

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Only a few more stops to go! Woohoo!

 By the end of the trip the car was pretty empty so I could stretch out and live large.

More electricity looking things, they are everywhere!

Rundown train cars, I hoped this wasn't foreshadowing for the rest of my journey! There was a snack cart but there is no telling how long we could live off that for. If I had to survive in the wild I think I would be ready to give up the ghost the moment my cell phone battery died. That's the sad truth.

And I made it!!! I was lugging my suitcase at this point so no more pictures. (Just fyi my arm is sore this morning! I gotta start pumping some iron!)
Any day that ends up at Shake Shack is a good day in my back. Welcome back to DC self!

I'm wearing jeggings and I think I understand what love is now. They are so comffffyyy!

Here I am being a ninja, it's a hobby.

I tried to take some outside pictures in the POURING rain! I scurried back for an umbrella three seconds after these were taken.

Back to Reality (boo)

This post is powered by grilled tofu. Delicious, delicious tofu (and chicken, it's there too, I don't want to get any hate-mail from Bawk You Chicken). I would like to point out this has absolutely nothing to do with the rest of this post, I just really enjoyed this tofu.

Confession: Much like Bailey, I am exhausted. I got the Monday's and it's Wednesday, talk about biological confusion. I don't know up from down anymore.

I think this has everything to do with it. It's time to return to the good ol Washington D.C. Just look at this packing nightmare. Feel free to take a minute and pray for my soul. Because what is even worse than packing? UNPACKING. Oy. THE HORROR.

I also have to lift this heavy suitcase over my head to store it on the train. Hopefully I'll channel Superman today, gosh, I'd settle for Walrus Man (FYI I've been assured he is a real superhero).

Side note: I've been seeing a lot of "What's In My Purse" posts lately and being the incredibly nosy person I am I LOVE THEM. However, I'm not going to call you all liars, but y'all have the neatest and most organized bags I've ever seen! This my friends, this is reality (and I am so sorry for it). This hot mess is drowning in receipts, has no fewer than three packs of gum and more than six lip glosses. Let's just say I know who I would want to be stuck with in an elevator need be, and Katie is her name-o.
Let's get back to Bailey shall we? Home girl loves looking out windows. Here is a list of some of her favorite things to spot
1. Schoolbuses
2. Cats
3. Groundhogs
4. Hot air balloons
5. Joggers/Walkers/Anything with a heartbeat (and sometimes that isn't even a requirement)
6. Birds

She could do this for hours!

...And me again (durrr). Why hello there, this outfit says "Why yes I am traveling, but I'm fun too. Let's carry luggage and get drinks." You totally got that vibe, right?

Now if you will all excuse I have a train to catch. See ya come Thanksgiving New Jersey, it's been real. (Ps. I will miss you something awful). Here is a picture of me spotting my train, you can tell from the keen look in my eye.