come exploring with me!

I'm going to have a ton of free time in July, and I think I want to spend it exploring. I want to see all the cool stuff DC has to offer that I've never had the time for, or haven't done since I was a kid, or didn't even know existed. Plus all the festivals and movie screenings and concerts and random events that I never seem to hear about until after the fact.

Things I am definitely going to do so far (adventurousness may vary):

-The Folklife Festival
-The catacombs at the Franciscan Monastery
-Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead at the AFI Silver (probably going Monday, if anyone's interested)
-the Textile Museum
-going to the top of the Washington Monument (can you believe I've never done this?)
-berry-picking and fruit-picking at farms around here, probably Butler's or Lariland
-playing Ghost in the Graveyard in the big Jewish cemetary on Adelphi
-driving out to Ellicott City to see what's left of the old Enchanted Forest theme park
-the Portrait Gallery
-outdoor movies at Strathmore
-also, they're apparently showing The Day the Earth Stood Still outside the Capitol, July 17
-looking for sharks' teeth at Calvert Cliffs
-actually going to Fort Reno instead of realizing at 9 PM that, whoops, there was a show at Fort Reno tonight

Who else has stuff they want to do, but not alone? What places have you always thought looked neat but never been to, or *know* are neat and want to see again?

oh my god, I am *officially* a giant nerd now.

I went to the Serenity screening in Arlington! I took my new roomate, who has only actually seen two episodes of Firefly, and is most definitely not One Of Us, so I was a little worried he would be either terrified or bored. But fortunately, he was neither, and it was extremely fun, and I, uh, won the trivia contest. Um.

Does knowing Mr. Universe is a space Jew really make me that knowledgeable? Because apparently it does! So now I have a Serenity patch and a box of Alliance currency, which should come in handy.