Author Archives: Margo
Arlington National Cemetery
Today’s day trip was to Arlington National Cemetery. Since it’s one of the few places not affected by the government shut down you can guess it was pretty busy. Yup, school trips, tour groups and just in general lots of people. We left the visitor’s center and headed up to Kennedy’s gravesite. We heard someone […]
Mount Vernon today
A government shut down and a holiday……holy crap there were a lot of kids and people in general at Mount Vernon today. Showed up at 10:45, bought our tickets and the tickets said we could get in line for the house tour at 1:55. Talk about a wait to get to walk through the house. […]
Sunday out walking around
Today was a late start for us. We finally got moving about noon and decided today we would just walk around some and see what there was to see. We ended up walking roughly 7 miles by the time we got back to our apartment today. We took a trip down to Dupont Circle Metro […]
And we are off to Washington……..
We got up at 3am this morning so we could get ready and make a 5:30 flight. Good grief that is early and I still can’t believe that the airport was busy at that time of the morning. We transferred planes in Denver and sat there at the gate for easily half an hour while […]
Last Day
Today was our last day and we decided we were going to take it easy. We slept in, and did some laundry. After the laundry was done we went for a walk to explore the upper half of Central Park. We actually walked around the reservoir and didn’t get much else in before it […]