Wow. What a great week. From spending 4 days with Brett and Lynette, to eating oysters, lobster rolls, and crabs in Baltimore, to lazing around DC, this was another great vaca.
And I even signed up on Facebook. That is probably the most memorable thing.
Not sure when we will get here again, makes me kind of sad. But someday we will come, and I will visit the cat cafe that the nephew loved when he lived here, the Capitol, and the White House when we have our first woman president. That will be something, won't it?
So long DC!!
Tuesday, June 14, 2016
How to fill 8 hours until your flight? Breweries, of course.
First stop, Ocelot Brewing out near Dulles Airport in Virginia. Good sampler and they even had a Sour Ale with Black Currants called Purple Rain. Nice.
Next stop was 3 Stars Brewing waaaaayyyy over by Reagan Airport, where our flight leaves from. And it was like driving through hell.
Have you ever driven around DC for an hour an a half in rush hour traffic where the streets that only a few hours ago ran one way and now they run the other way but there are just really small signs alerting you to this and you're tired and ready to just pass out on your plane ride home????
If not, I don't recommend it.
Washington National Cathedral
Such a beautiful place and we had a perfect weather day (again!) for some pictures.
I lit two candles for my friend CG and we wandered around a bit. Quite peaceful and beautiful.
Last Day in DC
It's our last day in DC - and I'm not really sure what we are going to do today.
Since we have to check out of our VRBO at 11:00 am, and our flight doesn't leave until 10:00 pm, we have alot of hours to see some other sights.
I think we are going to head to the National Cathedral - we've never been there before, and we wondered about Monticello - have to figure out how far that is. Sitting at a bar or brewery all afternoon is an option...we've done that before.
Stay tuned. I'm sure we'll figure it out.
Since we have to check out of our VRBO at 11:00 am, and our flight doesn't leave until 10:00 pm, we have alot of hours to see some other sights.
I think we are going to head to the National Cathedral - we've never been there before, and we wondered about Monticello - have to figure out how far that is. Sitting at a bar or brewery all afternoon is an option...we've done that before.
Stay tuned. I'm sure we'll figure it out.
Our VRBO
We are staying in this great little VRBO, a garden suite on the ground level of a brownstone in Capitol Hill.
It's literally a half a block from the Metro stop, around the corner from an organic grocery store, a block from tons of great restaurants.
The ONLY drawback is these weird air conditioners...which only get the place to 76, 72, or 70 degrees (each room has one), with a relative humidity of about 87%. UGH. And this is when they are set at 66 or 68 degrees. So it's like sleeping in a swamp. The owner was going to come and try to fix them, and he was genuinely sorry.
Chris just went to pick up some eggs at the grocery store, and it is apparently beautiful outside. Not so in the swamp.
It's literally a half a block from the Metro stop, around the corner from an organic grocery store, a block from tons of great restaurants.
The ONLY drawback is these weird air conditioners...which only get the place to 76, 72, or 70 degrees (each room has one), with a relative humidity of about 87%. UGH. And this is when they are set at 66 or 68 degrees. So it's like sleeping in a swamp. The owner was going to come and try to fix them, and he was genuinely sorry.
Chris just went to pick up some eggs at the grocery store, and it is apparently beautiful outside. Not so in the swamp.
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