Daily Archives: October 15, 2013

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.  […]