Leesburg, VA (USA)

I drove over to Mollie’s house at 0625 and waited for Mollie for about 10 minutes (“I wanted to find better shoes”).  We then drove to Leesburg (via VA-7) for Mollie’s Equine Medical Center Internship (my Day 2/8).  We had much heavier traffic than the day before (grrr…).  On the way, we discussed how she was getting used to the Internship rhythm (sleep schedules, type of work, etc.), along with summer school assignments, her travel blog (for IB extra work), the SAT and college applications.  After reaching Leesburg, we ate breakfast at Chick-fil-A.  Afterwards (0800), we walked around in a brand new Target store (nearby) and Mollie bought some bobbie-pins.  I dropped her off at the Equine Medical Center at 0835 and I teleworked at the Rust Library for the whole day.  Mollie texted to tell me that she’d gotten to muck out stalls and fill fluid bags (she seemed happy about this).  At around 1545, Mollie called to say that “something has happened” and I got worried - it turned out, though, that she was just asking if we could drive home a lady she’d met during her internship home after work.  I said it was OK but asked her not to startle me with scary starts to phone calls!  I left the Library and drove over to the Equine Medical Center at 1640.  There, I met the nice lady (Dany, extern who was studying at a college in Ecuador) Mollie had offered to drive home.  I learned that the extern had been helping Mollie throughout the week and we had a nice talk about how things had been going.  We dropped Dany off at her apartment and then drove home (US-15, I-66 and Fairfax County Parkway).  Along the way, we had some great conversations.  We also made good time and I was able to drop off my dry-cleaning on the way (after several attempts earlier in the week).  I dropped Mollie off at Nicky’s by 1830 so she could go to dinner with Steve and his family (they were visiting from out of town).