Missy and Rob, originally uploaded by Rob Bluey.

Missy and I attended the 25th annual National Press Foundation awards last night at the Hilton Washington Hotel. It was our second year at the dinner; Heritage regularly buys a table at the black-tie event.

With us were my Heritage colleagues Conn Carroll (with wife Wendi), Paul Gallagher (with wife Cindi), Izzy Ortega (with girlfriend Josie Rote), Audrey Jones and Eric Heis. Photos of the group are on Flickr.

This year turned out to be much more enjoyable. I ran into friends Shira Toeplitz of Roll Call, Jackie Kucinich of The Hill, Mike Steel of Minority Leader John Boehner’s office, Tory Mazzola of Sen. John Ensign’s office, J.P. Freire of the American Spectator, Amos Snead of FD Dittus Communications, and Carrie Sheffield of the Washington Times.