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This was a fun whirlwind of a week, starting on Monday with around a dozen of our A-100 friends at a happy hour. Of course we didn\u2019t think to take a photo until many people had left, but we did manage to get one. It was great to see folks and reconnect! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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With Kellee, Kerry, Cathy, Sarah, and Aaron<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Later in the day, I met my good friend Pam for coffee in the afternoon – and also on Monday I walked with Flavia to DuPont to get her health certificate. She\u2019s resting up before the trip!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Tuesday I shopped in Georgetown then met Lea for happy hour at Boqueria DuPont – always good to talk to her and especially to hear about her new job in Consular Affairs. Wednesday I met Megan, my fellow RCO and also RCO boss for a while, for lunch at North Italia – again, wonderful to catch up. Although we text almost daily, I hadn\u2019t seen her in person since 2019!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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With Megan<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

That evening we met two of our favorite A-100 friends for dinner in Ballston. It was perfect weather for sitting outside (we have been so very lucky with the weather!).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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With Jim and Cathy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Thursday was lunch with my friend Jenae who we served with in Juarez and Buenos Aires, then a wonderful dinner at the Maple Room in Vienna with our friends Thomas and Anju.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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With Thomas and Anju<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Friday was a long coffee chat with the fabulous Amy W. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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With Amy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

\u2026then I went to the Museum of American Art and the Portrait Gallery (co-located). It\u2019s one of my favorite museums, in part because they have five or six works by Howard Finster. They also had a beautiful, interesting sculpture exhibit and an exhibit by three female Japanese artists, two of whom were put into internment camps during WW2. Friday night, we met our Arkansas friends Kelly and Brian for dinner while they were in town!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Small sculptures by Anita Fields \u201cSo Many Ways to be Human\u201d<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Saturday we met Aaron and Sarah (from our A-100 class) and their two cute kiddos for lunch in Ballston, then John and I spent the rest of the day recuperating from a fun but busy week! We\u2019re ready to get this show on the road!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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With Sarah<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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This was a fun whirlwind of a week, starting on Monday with around a dozen of our A-100 friends at a happy hour. Of course we didn\u2019t think to take a photo until many people had left, but we did manage to get one. It was great to see folks and reconnect! Later in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7847"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7847"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7860,"href":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7847\/revisions\/7860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}