We headed down to DC last night to spend election night in the nations capitol.  Melanie & Javed generously hosted 9 of us for an appetizers and outcomes fiesta.  We were all very excited about the outcome – and very full thanks to our wonderful hosts!  Food selections included the really yummy cupcakes you see to your left, courtesy of Georgetown Cupcakes.  (Side note – some of you may know how I’m really not all that impressed with CakeLove – this was my first exposure to the new cupcake ‘movement’ and boy oh boy was it delicious!)

We left to head back to MD right before Obama’s speech (which was OK, heard it on the radio) – but it was very cool to be driving through DC on the way home, with everyone honking and so excited!  We were passed going out of Georgetown by about 10 cop cars with lights flashing heading back towards the white house, so in retrospect, we were glad that I had to work early today and thus came home instead of walking around.  as it was, a wild goosechase for gas – silly jetta- had us getting home closer to 2AM than the midnight that we left, and i’m having trouble keeping my eyes open today.  well worth it!  and looking forward to taking the day off to head downtown for inauguration day!

oh and the one other thing we were really psyched about when we got home?  nebraska – one of the reddist states ever – guess which county went to Obama yesterday?  Yep – Thurston County – the home of the Rutars.  We totally guessed that though, considering the Obama signs we saw out when we were back in September.  (Or at least, we’ll tell you that we totally called that   haha!)