Happy Hour Success!

After a week of planning, we are happy to report that the Happy Hour was a great success. Due to delays on the red line, we decided to walk from Chinatown to the bar in the Golden Triangle (just south of Dupont Circle). When we arrived at MadHatter, we discovered that Mickey, the bar owner, was not there. He had left us in the hands of “Soup”, possibly the best bartender in the District. The bar, as we had discovered on our first trip there, was quiet in comparison to other Happy Hour places in DC. We thought that our anticipated number of 50 interns would fit comfortably in the empty chairs and barstools.

Then people started to arrive. And then more people showed up. And their friends came too. By 5:45, the bar was starting to get a little cramped. By 6, it was impossible to move. We were happy to see our friend groups interact with one another, but we were ecstatic when we realized how many people none of us had ever met before! There were interns from dozens of places around the city, including the Hill, AIPAC, the Religious Action Center, Interpol, and even the White House. We even met a group of British interns who are living in DC as a part of a political summer program. While the size of the crowd limited our ability to sign people in, it looked like everybody was having a good time. Even Soup seemed to be enjoying himself in a crowd of college-age Jews.

After planning for 50, the crowd exceeded 100 when all was said and done. When people left they asked us,

“So, when’s the next one?”


Don’t worry. We’ll keep you posted.

Happy 4th of July

-The Interns