My original birthday week plan included lunch with friend on Monday, run the 9/11 remembrance 5K on Tuesday, volunteer and dinner with UN on Wednesday, work Thursday, camping on Friday, go to a social night on Saturday, and water park on Sunday!

But Hurricane Florence disrupted all of my plans! Bummer! After getting mandatory evacuation order from the governor, we started preparing for the hurricane on Monday. Us Californians never learned about hurricanes. On Wednesday, the day of my birthday, UN and I loaded all of our luggage into our car in lightning speed and started our evacuation before the hurricane hits and flood this area.

流水帳的記事法，但還是要把今年慶生週的妙事記下來，以防忘記！生日週原計畫是這樣的，週一和朋友吃飯，週二跑911紀念跑，週三我生日要去朋友家玩、下午和軍妻團做義工、晚上和UN慶生，週四工作，週五去露營，週六晚上參加歡迎晚會，週日去水上遊樂園！

結果颱風天，全部取消（感覺超消極）！朋友打電話來叫我們要準備好防備措施，但加州人的我們，完全沒經驗！週三（我生日當天）UN回到家後，我們用史上最快（不到10分鐘）的方式把家當全放到車裡，馬上出發離開隨時都會刮雨淹水的地方！

UN was able to book hotels and make a birthday dinner reservation before we hit the road to DC! I even got to do SoulCycle for three days straight! We went museum hopping the four days we were there.

UN最強，竟然下班後馬上訂好飯店、餐廳，全部行程都準備好！連行程裡都包括早上要上SoulCycle，太貼心了！來DC一定要做的事就是參觀博物館，這次四天，天天都到不同的博物館報到！

This time we were in DC we dined at a new restaurant called China Chilcano. Its owner is the Founder of World Central Kitchen. This is definitely a restaurant we will revisit.

這次新試的一家餐廳China Chilcano，老闆是World Central Kitchen的創辦人。這裡是我們回家之後還念念不忘的一家餐廳！

Barcelona is a hip Spanish tapas restaurant/bar that is great for outdoor dining if the weather permits.

Barcelona，西班牙小吃，趁天氣許可，坐在室外享受陽光。

Last day, we visited one of José Andrés’ restaurant again. Zaytinya, focuses on Eastern Mediterranean cuisine.

最後一天，繼續到José Andrés的餐廳Zaytinya，以中東、地中海美食呈現。

The weather when we were in DC was cloudy with a chance of thunderstorm, but barely even rained. My type of weather. Turned out that Hurricane Florence didn’t even hit Norfolk area, thank God! UN’s coworkers also came to DC for the evacuation, we thought we got a free long weekend trip. But at the same time we are watching and praying for NC and SC to quickly recover from the hurricane and flood damages.

這次天氣偶爾陰天，卻完全沒下雨。我最愛的天氣，卻輪到我被蚊子叮。颱風也沒經過維吉尼雅州，有驚無險。UN的同事們也來華府，我們都覺得自己像是得到了一個4天假期。但也希望北卡和南卡、被影響的地方能快點退潮不淹水。

Restaurants | 餐廳