We had a fun, exhausting weekend in the DC area. We flew out to DC Thursday afternoon. Eric’s
cousin, Elizabeth, picked us up at the airport.
First stop was the Burger Joint for some delicious burgers. We didn’t really do anything the rest of the
evening except get friendly with the various critters at the house.
Friday morning Tropical Storm Andrea decided
to pay us a visit (what is it with me and hurricanes on vacation?). We knew it
was coming so some of us came prepared.
I had a little umbrella which was a life saver. I was still got wet but I wasn’t soaked to
the bone like Eric and my camera was saved from the torrential down pours.
Elizabeth kept saying the heavy stuff is still coming. LOL! Elizabeth, Amanda, her daughter, Eric and I ventured
down to Mount Vernon, George Washington’s plantation. I had visited the place
in 1995 with my mom and dad. I remember
some parts of it but some of the exhibit places were new. We checked out the
plantation and the museums. After lunch at the Mount Vernon Inn, we went to Old
Town Alexandria. We didn’t get out, just drove around the streets that George
Washington traveled. We also drove up to
the Masonic Memorial to Washington.
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| Soaked at Mount Vernon |
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| Mount Vernon |
Saturday turned out to be a great day.
Eric and I took the Metro into downtown DC and rented some bikes and
biked around the monuments. It was so
nice to not have to walk the whole distance. We biked over 8 miles so I couldn’t
imagine walking all of that. We started at the Capitol and made our way down the National Mall, over the Tidal Basin to Thomas Jefferson Memorial, and the slow making our way to the Lincoln Memorial with stops at the George Mason, FDR, MLK and Korea Memorials. MLK is a new one. On our way to WWII Memorial we stopped by Vietnam. So we saw all
the monuments and even a few new ones that I haven’t seen before. It was a
great day. My arms and face got sunburned. I bought sunscreen, just forgot to
put it in my camera bag before we left Elizabeth’s house. Oops!
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| Eric at the Capitol |
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| Lincoln Memorial |
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| Kim on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial with Washington Monument in back. |
After we finished with our biking tour we took the Metro back to
Springfield and we went out for dinner with Elizabeth and Amanda at a really
good steakhouse and then she took us around downtown DC so I could take
pictures of the monuments at night. It was such a beautiful night. I got some good pictures.
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| WWII Memorial at night |
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| Thomas Jefferson Memorial Memorial at night |
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| Lincoln Memorial at night |
Sunday we started the day at Ford’s Theatre, the place Lincoln was shot
and across the street at the house that he died. It was an interesting presentation;
I learned a lot more about his assassination.
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| The Box where Lincoln was shot - Ford's Theatre |
After that we went down to
National’s Ballpark to see the Twins play the Nationals. The park was nice,
nothing to special. It didn’t really
have a view of anything. You can see
part of the capitol dome in one part of the stadium but that was about it. I
got a picture of me and President Taft. The highlight of the day was the
Presidential Race. Teddy Roosevelt was
winning but he was tackled by a giant cicada bug (cicadas are large insects,
about an inch and a half long, with black bodies, red eyes and delicate wings,
they only surface every 17 years, and now is the time). George Washington
won. Poor Teddy never wins.
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| Me and President Taft |
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| Presidential Race...Teddy is winning! |
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| Teddy was tackled by a cicada bug (check out the red eyes)! |
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| Nationals Ballpark |
So that is our DC trip in a nutshell.
It was fun!
More pictures can be found:
Mount Vernon and Old Town Alexandria, VA
Ford's Theatre & Nationals Park
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