Flynn and I arrived in Union Station in
Washington DC at about 1:30p. We took a cab to our hotel and because it seems to be our custom, we took a nap. I found a free walking tour online that started at 6pm so after our nap we headed towards The Mall and found an early dinner. After dinner we found the tour. It was a fun tour led by a grad student who started the company with his friend to pay their way through school. The tour was full of all sorts of interesting facts and plenty of bad jokes, but it was fun. We say the
Washington Monument, the WWII Memorial, the Vietnam Memorial, and the Lincoln Memorial. He also pointed out/talked about the White House, the Jefferson Memorial, and the Capital. On our way back to the hotel we stopped a grocery store and picked up some milk and cereal for breakfast. That way we could continue to have leisurely mornings.
On day two of our stay in DC, I managed to get up and go for another run. This time I went to the hotel’s gym. It’s a good thing I did, too. It was really hot during our stay in DC. We’ve had some odd luck with the weather on this trip. It seems that if it wasn’t raining it was really hot. Oh well.
After my run and breakfast we headed out for the day. We walked along Pennsylvania Avenue and stopped to take a few pictures in front of the White House. Then we continued on our walk to the Spy Museum. Pretty much everyone we had talked told us to go to the Spy Museum. It was a good call. It’s a pretty cool museum and Flynn really enjoyed it too. After the Spy Museum we went for lunch and then decided to head back to the hotel for another nap. This life of leisure is pretty tough, ya know. Later that evening we went for a walk to the monuments again. We started on Constitution Island. Our tour guide the day before said that the island had been voted one of DCs most romantic make out spots. I wasn’t that impressed. Personally, I felt there were just too many people there and much too much duck poo around for a good make out. But I guess, to each his own. We revisited the WWII Memorial, because the walking tour breezed through it pretty quickly. Then we headed passed the Tidal Basin to the Jefferson Memorial. Around that time the sun was setting. It was a really peaceful walk. After Jefferson we went to the memorial that I remember being my favorite from my class trip in the 8th grade, the FDR Memorial. We took some fun pictures at the FDR memorial than continued around the Basin to the Korean War Memorial. It was very dark by that point so we weren’t able to see too much. Last we went to the Lincoln Memorial/Reflecting Pool. It was a great place to stop and test out our picture taking skills.
On Monday, it was hot. It was really hot and for some reason I was wearing jeans. Mistake. Oh well, we walked passed the White House again and all the way up the Mall to the Capital Building. From there we headed back down the Mall to the piece de resistance… The Smithsonian Institute’s Air and Space Museum. We spent at least three hours going through every exhibit and checking out every airy spacey thing. Flynn’s a huge fan of air things and space things so it was fun to watch him get excited about all the cool stuff the museum has. We saw a lot of very cool things, but I was exhausted afterward. We had hoped we would have time to go to the Holocaust Museum, but we didn’t. We’ll have to save that one for out next trip to DC. After dinner we headed back to the hotel to pack our backpacks once again. Next stop San Francisco.
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