Caught In The Whirlwind
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Washington DC Trip – Day 1
Mar 16th 2007
Whew, I'm exhausted…and I've already had a chance to sleep. I did way more walking than I think I've ever done in one day yesterday.
It started out with me getting up at 5am in order to get ready to leave at quarter to six. All went according to plan, my friends arrived and off we went. First stop…dunkin donuts for some coffee, or in my case, white hot chocolate. We had a loooong stop there as the employees at the drive through forgot what we ordered…three times.
After that, we were on our way. Things were fairly uneventful as far as major events until we ended up in a small mining town in Pennsylvania in search of a gas station. We sent Jason in to pay for the gas since this was an old school, non pay at the pump station here. He later said that he felt so out of place in that store. After we got the gas and some lunch at Arby's, we got back on the road.
Then we got to the fun part…the beltway and beyond. The traffic was pretty heavy from the moment we entered Maryland until we got into Arlington. The beltway itself wasn't bad, although we weren't in the inner loop thankfully. Then we took the scenic George Washington Parkway into Arlington where our hotel is. There was one small hitch at this point:
GPS: Drive 0.5 miles and then enter roundabout.
Wassy: (Who was driving) Wait a minute…did it just say what I think it said? I didn't know there was going to be a roundabout! Ahhhh!!
Then later, as we were entering the roundabout… "Oh no, a roundabout! AHHHHHH!! … Oooh, this is senic … ARRRGHHH!"
We survived to get to the hotel though, where I'm proud to say I had one of the rare moments where I argued a point with somebody. I went to check in to the hotel and the person at the front desk said that we weren't going to be able to get rooms on the same floor. Well…that wasn't going to work out…we reserved the rooms in January and specifically requested connecting rooms if possible and next to each other if not. So after discussing a little bit, It eventually moved to rooms on the same floor to rooms that are right next to each other. Wheee!
We went out exploring after settling into our rooms. First off was my first metro/subway experience which wasn't that bad. The DC Metro system is pretty nice. We had a little problem with directions and we got lost a couple times to start off with, but we eventually found our way to The White House. I was amazed at how close you could actually get to the building, considering all of the security concerns and such. The only thing that was blocked off was Pennsylvania Ave to outside traffic. Otherwise a tourist could walk right up to the black fence and snap a picture.
It should be noted here that we saw our only cherry blossoms of the trip so far, across the street from the white house. The picture I took of them was really, really good, so I'm going to put it in here using the jumbo size option that Vox just added
Ok, after the White House, we ended up walking through the Vietnam War Veterans Memorial. Which, to me, was extremely eerie. There were a TON of names on that wall and although I didn't have a personal connection (that I'm aware of) with anybody who died, it was still chilling seeing all of the names.
After that, we swung past the Lincoln Memorial. When we were at The White House, we remarked that it looked a lot smaller than we thought it would be. Well…the Lincoln Memorial made up for that, as it was a lot bigger than we anticipated.
The reflecting pool wasn't doing much reflecting, unfortunately. I guess it was drained for winter. In any case, the Lincoln Memorial was very cool.
Then we stumbled onto the Korean War Veterans Memorial which I didn't know existed until we were forced down the path by closed sidewalks. It was fairly interesting, although it didn't have the same impact on me that the Vietnam memorial had.
Here's where things started sucking a little bit. It was threatening rain all day and right around 5pm, the skies opened up and we had some pretty heavy (cold) rain and lots of wind, which is really not a good combination when you're walking around a major city. We decided to trek on to the Tidal Basin to see the
Jefferson Memorial, however, by the time we got there, we decided to call it quits without seeing any more of the monument type stuff due to the crappy weather. The lighting in the Jefferson Memorial wasn't the best, so I didn't get too many good pictures of it. Oh well… Then we had the metro ride from HELL. We had to make it from the city into a residential area in the middle of rush hour. I don't like large crowds, and this was about as large as it gets.
We went back to the hotel for about 15-20 minutes, long enough for me to take a shower and change into some dry clothes considering we were soaked to the bone. Dinner that night was seafood at The Dancing Crab in Washington, DC. I must say…I was a little worried about this particular dinner choice since I'm not fond of seafood at all. However, my friends got me to try the salmon which I thought was pretty good. And Wassy, the crab smashing master gave me a little taste of crab meat which was really quite good. Takes too much work to get the meat out.
The dinner went amazingly well, considering the previous days activities, but we were all tired, so we went back to the hotel room and slept.
Today…the Smithsonian!
You can see more pictures of the trip over on my flickr account. Click here!
QotD: The Best Blend
Feb 28th 2007
What's your favorite blend or brand of coffee or tea?
I'm not really a coffee person, or a tea person, so I can't really answer the question. Instead I'll just interpret this to mean "your favorite hot beverage" in which case I'd have to go with the new White Hot Chocolate from Dunkin Donuts.
There are no words to describe how much I love this beverage. I pretty much stop by whenever I'm near a Dunkin Donuts and pick one up.
Mmmmm…
QotD: The Best Blend
Feb 28th 2007
What’s your favorite blend or brand of coffee or tea?
I’m not really a coffee person, or a tea person, so I can’t really answer the question. Instead I’ll just interpret this to mean “your favorite hot beverage” in which case I’d have to go with the new White Hot Chocolate from Dunkin Donuts.
There are no words to describe how much I love this beverage. I pretty much stop by whenever I’m near a Dunkin Donuts and pick one up.
Mmmmm…
QotD: Dreamy
Feb 8th 2007
What did you dream about last night?
Nothing that I can remember too well. I think I did dream, but it’s just kinda…hard to remember it.
My most memorable dreams involve, for some strange reason, Dunkin Donuts. I’m not sure why…but I have a disproportionately large number of dreams that involve a Dunkin Donuts in some way shape or form. Once I was late to get somewhere because the line was too long…another time it was a Dunkin Donuts where you could park your car inside the store…
I’m not sure why I have this unconscious obsession.
But the first dream that I ever had that I can remember was one where Darth Vader was trying to force feed me gumdrops. Just…don’t ask.
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