Monthly Archives: October 2013

There’s quite a lot to post for the day.  However, being the ballerina that I am I took a face plant  and torn up my left hand a little.  I couldn’t  take a face plant just anywhere, oh know not Margo.  I fell by the reflecting pool in front of the Capitol  building.  talk about […]

Went down this morning to the National Archives early this morning.  I was on a quest to see the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence.  At ten after ten we were starting to wonder if they were going to open or not and they didn’t.  Apparently they didn’t have enough people show up for work […]

We couldn’t think of anything else to go and see today so we  just got out of the apartment and went out walking. We  got off the Metro around the Capitol Building.  Walked past the Library of Congress and past the Supreme Court.  Took a stroll around the Capitol Building.  There were a bunch of […]

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 […]

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.  […]