A Summer in the Capitol: Not your average tourist weekend.

The 5th week/weekend in DC was just as busy as the weeks before... Here it goes.

Wednesday of the week Elena and I headed into Georgetown to meet up with a classmate of ours who was in town touring. We got to see as well as get some frozen yogurt (if I haven't mentioned, this is one of our favorites!).

I can imagine that we did something on Friday, but I don't remember. :) On Saturday, we got up early and headed to the metro so that we could catch a bus to the Clara Barton house. We were the only ones there, so we got a personalized tour of her house, that was very interesting. Learned quite a bit of things about Clara Barton that I didn't know. After that, we walked "next door" to Glen Echo amusement park, which brought Clara Barton to the house in the first place. We didn't stay there long, and then caught the bus back to metro so that we could head to the zoo! The zoo in DC is free and was extremely crowded and very hot. (We are getting sick of the heat). As if we hadn't done enough, we then headed toward some murals that our "Little Black Book" told us about. After we found two of the 3 murals, we headed to a park one of my co-workers told me about (little did we know it has two names and was on our list). The park was very nice with a bunch of nice fountains. We sat and relaxed a bit before we headed to U street, known for its food and livelyness. I think we were too worn out by that point so we grabbed some iced coffee and headed home. We were exhausted and planned to sleep in on Sunday.

We may have planned to sleep in, but it definitely didn't happen. We were awake by 9:30 so we started going and going again. We started by heading to the National Postal Museum. It was small and somewhat unexciting, but the stamps were neat! Next we headed up to Brookside Gardens, which is the furthest stop north east that you can go on the metro, plus a mile walk. The gardens were neat and had a bunch of different types of gardens on the 500 acre plot of land. They were also showcasing an exhibit all about the different butterflies of the world. We paid for that and I'm glad we did as the amount of butterflies in the small room was spectacular! After spending about 4 hours at the Brookside Gardens, we decided to head home to rest a bit before work the next day. I'm pretty sure the week is our time of rest. I'll dedicate another post later on to what we do at night. Pictures below.