Day of Seconds

CPAC began pretty awesomely!! Before even hitting the convention, my roomies and I managed to eat breakfast at the coolest Burger King in a car booth, but it gets better, the BK was totally decked out in movie stuff and had four levels!! After arriving at CPAC we spent the first few hours scouring the plethora of booths found in the exhibit hall, receiving probably too many freebies to take back home on Sunday. Then in our ongoing search for free food, we stumbled upon the Conservatism 2.0 session where we ate a delicious lunch and heard about how the media are using new strategies to shape the future of conservatism. Unfortunately we left early to make sure we got seats to hear Mike Huckabee speak, fortunately we got the chance to hear Congressman Mike Pence speak. Both were amazing speakers, both had a lot of good things to say and gives me hope for the republican party. Then we adventured to the zoo to see the giant pandas who just lounged about their cages for a while, but the orangutan exhibit was awesome as we met Lucy, who was amazing. After the zoo we again headed to Ollies Trolly for dinner where I ate an amazing crab cake. More seconds for the day was the Washington Monument, and the White House and even getting slightly lost before finding a metro station. Besides those we also saw the Capital Building and Lincoln's Memorial, before heading past the Vietnam Memorial Wall onwards to the metro station. So as my day ends with sore feet, it also ends quite fulfilled and hopeful for the days to come.

Kaitlin Vonderschmitt