The Year's Top Five

With 2009 drawing to a close, I have to think of the top five moments from the year. And they are (drum roll, please):

1) Inauguration. Historic moment, great time to be in DC.
2) Peru trip. New continent (5 out of 7!), check. Machu Picchu, check. Lake Titicaca, check. Pisco Sour, check. Witnessing a Latin American labor strike, check. Seeing police respond to the labor strike, check. Good times with my girls, check.
3) Beyonce concert. That girl can sing! Plus Michelle & the girls were there.
4) Watching my friend's face at Spring Awakening at the Kennedy Center. Quite the interesting play. I was not properly warned.
5) Good times in Chicago. What can I say? It continues to be my kind of town and I had great times there this year, witnessing the city in nearly every season and with really everyone I hold near & dear to me. Plus we saw The Santaland Diaries this past weekend - very funny!