Weekend in Washington, DC

We were up in DC and saw the president ride in on Marine One, here is a link (http://www.youtube.com/v/hH4bK77Y28Y) to a video I took while in DC of Marine One leaving the white house lawn. Or you can scroll down and see it. Anyway we tromped all over the DC area on Saturday and saw every monument in the area...phew it was a long way and my legs were a little sore from it the next day, but it was really neat to see some of the places we've only just heard about or seen on TV. We also saw the president in a motorcade that day too and now know the secret about motorcades and the masses of people always standing at the side of the road...yup! While we were watching the video on the camera we were stopped at the edge of the road on our way back to the Washington monument when the cops told us we had to stay on the curb for now. A few seconds later they pulled a car over out of the road when all of a sudden a motorcade with the president came in and he was waving at us! So no one really camps out when the president arrives, everyone is just trying to cross the street.

A few of the highlights were going to the portrait gallery and the sculpture garden. It was amazing how much history was displayed through portraits of influential people at the portrait gallery. The sculpture gallery on the other hand was a different story where each of the pieces got better and better as you walked around them, especially "House One."

While we were up in DC we had the chance to try out some fun restaurants too. The first night we went to Mirakesh with Angela and her boyfriend. Mirakesh is an Morrocan restaurant with belly dancers, but more importantly a 7 course meal waiting inside for us. Now when I say inside, this place was on lockdown when we showed up, which looked pretty typical for daily business. We walked in through the front door which only opened from the inside and it seemed to only open right around the time that they had reservations. Once inside they clicked two to three deadbolts back into place before we were seated. The food was there fantastastic, I guess it is just a well guarded secret in DC.

Also while we were there one of Sarah's childhood friends generously allowed us to crash at his place and took us to a few of the his favorite places in DC during the day and night.

We are both ready to go back and continue the adventure in DC sometime soon...