DC Power
Sorry I haven't posted in a while, but for a long time, nothing happened. Since then, things have happened. For instance, the weekend before last, cavedwellers and I went to DC for her birthday.
I apologize right now to anyone living in DC and reading this, as we didn't visit anyone. We decided to go just 3 days before we actually left, and we thought that with that little notice we didn't want to turn people's weekends upside down by barging in on them. That's right, three days. We really are that spontaneous. Especially when it's cavedwellers's birthday and I screwed up the plans for a New York trip.
So, DC in short:
Smithsonian museums were very cool. Saw some awesome sculpture in the national gallery, and saw a mummified cat and a bug zoo in the museum of natural history. For a geek like me, though, it's hard to beat walking through an actual space station on your way from the wright brothers' plane to WWII aircraft. The only drawback to having all those free museums adjacent to each other is that there's no good way to pace yourself. We were quite museum'ed out after one day of going quickly through about a third of what a third of the museums had to offer.
We were lucky with restaurants. We had awesome Peruvian food one night (can anyone recommend a good Peruvian place around here?), good Chinese the next, and the biggest brunch man has ever known before we left. (The southern brunch was 3 courses, the first of which is all-you-can-eat and the last of which included strawberries and a chocolate fountain.)
Oh, how cute, they have their own Mass. Ave!
On their mass transit: Serious case of METRO envy. (But why so many ads for crab cakes?)
Regionally famous bookstore-restaurants are not good places to buy books or eat.
On the trip there and back: Amtrak is great when everything goes right, and when things go wrong, that's OK, their cafe car has nice stools.
To distinguish themselves, some hotels give you elaborate white noise machines built into the clock-radio. They're hard to turn off.
That's it for now. Tomorrow, Tufte!
I apologize right now to anyone living in DC and reading this, as we didn't visit anyone. We decided to go just 3 days before we actually left, and we thought that with that little notice we didn't want to turn people's weekends upside down by barging in on them. That's right, three days. We really are that spontaneous. Especially when it's cavedwellers's birthday and I screwed up the plans for a New York trip.
So, DC in short:
Smithsonian museums were very cool. Saw some awesome sculpture in the national gallery, and saw a mummified cat and a bug zoo in the museum of natural history. For a geek like me, though, it's hard to beat walking through an actual space station on your way from the wright brothers' plane to WWII aircraft. The only drawback to having all those free museums adjacent to each other is that there's no good way to pace yourself. We were quite museum'ed out after one day of going quickly through about a third of what a third of the museums had to offer.
We were lucky with restaurants. We had awesome Peruvian food one night (can anyone recommend a good Peruvian place around here?), good Chinese the next, and the biggest brunch man has ever known before we left. (The southern brunch was 3 courses, the first of which is all-you-can-eat and the last of which included strawberries and a chocolate fountain.)
Oh, how cute, they have their own Mass. Ave!
On their mass transit: Serious case of METRO envy. (But why so many ads for crab cakes?)
Regionally famous bookstore-restaurants are not good places to buy books or eat.
On the trip there and back: Amtrak is great when everything goes right, and when things go wrong, that's OK, their cafe car has nice stools.
To distinguish themselves, some hotels give you elaborate white noise machines built into the clock-radio. They're hard to turn off.
That's it for now. Tomorrow, Tufte!