Washington DC

We were excited to know that our friends Cliff and Betty (who live in Sitka Alaska) were going to be in Washington DC for a conference.  We decided to go up to DC to see them and to visit Mike and Lisa Pozsgay to see the house they just rented in Silver Spring, MD, and to see Jim's cousin Susan who lives in Virginia near the Pentagon.

Unfortunately, Cliff and Betty came down with H1N1 while in DC, and because Colleen is in the high-risk group for that flu we decided it would be better to not meet up with them while we were in DC.  We felt bad that they flew all the way across the country and then got sick...and we were sad we couldn't see them even though we were in the same city.

So we packed up with Kylie

and drove up Friday morning and went straight to the mall downtown.  Here are some photos of us on the mall with the dog

Then we made it out to Mike and Lisa's and saw their new place.  They have a nice set up, they live near a trail that feels like it is almost out in the country, yet live near the end of the red line so they can take the Metro right into the City.  Here is some more info on it from their blog:
http://pozsgayandromito.blogspot.com/2009/06/new-diggs.html

Friday night we went to Comet Ping Pong for some Pizza.  The tables are all old ping pong tables, and they have ping pong tables in the back to play on:
http://www.cometpingpong.com/

The next day we went to a local breakfast place called "The Original Pancake House" but then found out while we were there that there are over 100 of them nationwide.  Oh well, it seemed like a local to place to us!

After breakfast we went to the C&O canal trail along the Potomac River.

It was a canal from Washington DC to Cumberland, MD that closed down in the 1920s.  http://www.nps.gov/choh/index.htm

The National Park Service took it over and now it is a national park and a trail.  We got to see the Great Falls of the Potomac, a series of waterfalls that were very impressive!

That night we met up with Susan at The Palm for dinner

Because of "morning sickness", Colleen threw up her entire meal about 20 minutes after we ate, at the lobby bathroom of the show we were going to see.  Thanks to Susan for helping out!  After Colleen thought she felt better, we headed in to the Capitol Steps show.
http://www.capsteps.com/

Sunday we drove back--after eating Einstein Bagels for breakfast and Friendly's for dinner!

(Thanks to Mike and Lisa for letting us stay with them, and for letting us 'board' Kylie in their house, much to the detriment of their cute cat Julian)