On Wednesday night of the week, one of my friends from high school was in town for a conference. We went and spent some time catching up with him, before heading back home so we could get to bed for work the next day.
We started our weekend right away after dinner on Friday night by walking across the bridge to Georgetown for some frozen yogurt. It was cloudy and ended up raining a bit, but made for a really nice night. After grabbing our yogurt, we started walking down M street, toward downtown DC. We walked down M, past my work, onto the back of the Whitehouse and then tried to get around to the front. We got blocked by construction on the road and so we ended up just sitting on the bench just talking. By 10 we headed to the metro to head home. When we got home, we calculated the distance we had walked, over 4.5 miles! What a night! :)
On Saturday we got up at a decent time and headed to the National Geographic Museum. They had a great exhibit about the race to the end of the earth, the journey to the very southern point of the world. They had some photos that have never been published, but not as many as I would have liked. After that museum, we headed to the park for lunch before heading to the museum of Crime and Punishment. It was a 3 story museum with so many really neat exhibits about anything that has to do with the law. It was neat. We also were able to do a mock forensic lab of a crime. It was pretty neat. We spent about 5 hours there! By then, our legs were tired and we headed home.
Sunday we were up by 6:30 am to head to Mt. Vernon. It was a pretty neat. We were able to see quite a bit and even took a 45 min. ferry ride on the Potomic River. We were supposed to go to the Distillery and Gristmill too, but after we got to Mt. Vernon, we found out it was 3 miles a way, and with very little public transportation, as if the metro ride and the long bus ride to Mt. Vernon wasn't enough. We decided we would wait for the hourly bus and try to head there. The buses were extremely confusing to figure out, and as we ask the bus driver about where he is going, he barely speaks English and has no idea where we are trying to go. There is more to the story, but ultimately it was his bus we were supposed to be on, so instead of waiting another hour, we decided to head back to the metro. Instead of just heading home, we decided to head to Old Town Alexandria. We walked down the main street and down to the river. It was neat to see all the different little shops and we ended up spending quite a bit of time in some of the stores. We got all the way down to the river and then took the free trolley back up to the metro. This made for another long day! From there, we headed home to get some sleep before the next week of work.
Pictures are below, again out of order.
At the Museum of Crime and Punishment
Elena locked in a cell at the Museum of Crime and Punishment
Mt. Vernon
Washington's Tomb
The boat we were on
On the way down to Old Town Alexandria
The Warf at Old Town Alexandria
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