Lazy Sunday

Ah, today was quite the lazy Sunday.  I must warn you now that my blog entry today won't be very thrilling, so please, feel free to skim/skip over this entry lol.  It will have a lot of food pics though since I cooked a lot this weekend :)

Upshire Girl and I got up around 10ish this morning and lounged around the apartment for a good portion of our morning.  I made cinnamon rolls for our girls' night the night before (but everyone had to leave before the rolls had a chance to bake T_T), so we heated some up for breakfast.

Our homemade cinnamon rolls!  Delicioooous <3

In case you're curious, check out Paula Deen's recipe for cinnamon rolls.  I used that recipe, and the resulting cinnamon rolls were divine.  Go Paula Deen!

While we were incredibly lazy and the weather report said that outdoors would be incredibly hot, we decided to do something more interesting with our day instead of sitting around the apartment and napping.  After all, we did have a lazy Saturday as well.  After finishing up some laundry, we headed over to Chinatown to shop and watch a movie at the Regal Gallery Place theatre.  Because I loved the book, I wanted to watch the new Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter movie and I somehow convinced the other girls it would be a good idea haha.  The showing didn't start until 3PM though, so we decided to hang around the area and go shopping.  We did see that giant Forever 21 last time we were in the area, so it'd be fun to actually go inside and check it out.

The Forever 21 there is HUGE!  If you've been the to the Davis F21, I feel as if this F21 in DC is like that one.  Except DC F21 comes with with 2 extra floors added to it.  We spent 2 hours there, but I still didn't get a chance to finish looking at everything.  We were supposed to go to H&M too but no time!  We had to get to Regal by 3PM for the movie.  Random fun fact--if you want to see a movie for free and you're getting tickets from Fandango, there are some deals you can choose from that allow you to receive a free movie ticket (free trial at Netflix, 250 free business cards from Vista Print, etc.).

The Abe Lincoln movie was all right.  A lot was cut from the book and the story was only partially based on the original story.  I understand why they cut and rewrote a lot of the parts, so it didn't irk me too much.  Overall, an enjoyable action film--I give it a 7.5/10.  The other girls said they enjoyed it as well because it was "different" ahaha.  After the film we took a couple of pictures with the giant movie ads.

After the movie, we were planning to head over to the National Portrait Gallery because it was so close by.  Unfortunately, due to DC's erratic weather, the ominous sky foreshadowed an upcoming thunderstorm.  While we did check the weather report in the morning, everyone forgot to bring their umbrella so to avoid getting soaked, we headed home instead of checking out the museum and going out for dinner.

Upshire Girl and I are incredibly easily influenced by food so after seeing a commercial with steak involved, we suddenly wanted steak for dinner.  We had some beef we just bought in the freezer, so why not!  We ended our day out with this scrumptious-looking  finished product:

Soy marinated steak with a red wine reduction and onions, sauteed summer squash, and a baked potato

Close-up of our delicious steak!

DC tip of the day:
**Always bring an umbrella in your bag, no matter what the skies may look like in the morning.  Thunderstorms in DC are rather common and unexpected, so it's best to be prepared!**

-Agent 024