Ron and Nikki's Blog: Washington DC

On the First weekend of December Nikki and went to Washington DC to celebrate our 2nd Anniversary. We had a great time.

[DAY 1]We took Friday off and drove down. We got there around 4 or 5pm i think. We stayed in Rosellyn, Virgina (just across the Potomic) in a Holiday Inn. The room was great and cheap...just what i like HA! (ed. note: Nikki rolled her eyes big time at this point) We even had a balcony over looking the river, free parking and basically subsidized breakfast ( i think we paid around a dollar a day for the both of us. NICE!)
The night that we got there we checked in and then hopped on the Metro which was 3 blocks away. The Metro is so great! Clean and easy. Our first stop was to Zed's Ethiopian restaurant. Superb service and all sorts of political celebs have eaten there. Great place.
We then toured the Mall and monuments seeing the capitol, Washington monument, White house, WW2 memorial and Lincoln memorial.

[DAY 2] We got up and headed to Mount Vernon. We meant to only spend half a day here but because of the new museum and visitor center we spent just about the whole day. Mount Vernon the house was interesting although i felt like we were "processed" through there a bit too quickly. I liked the museum more than Nikki. But we both agreed it was a bit over the top. By the end you kind of feel like the theme of the place should be: "Washington the God" BUT, it's still worth going of course! We then headed back to the hotel and ate in our hotel restaurant (20% off dinner...WooHoo!) But the food was just ok...Nikki didn't like her dish. (ed. note: Nikki's dish was a chicken curry made with all wings, which is just weird, no veggies or anything! Bleh!)

[DAY 3]After spending so much time in Mount Vernon Nikki wanted to spend time in the Mall area so that's where we went. First off to the Spy Museum. We both thought it was interesting and started off well but it got boring and didn't stay on track. I wouldn't recommend it. Then we went to the Air and Space Museum where Nikki yawned while i checked out the planes. The highlight there for Nikki was a that we swear we saw Hamid Karzai (ed note: Hamid Karzai is the President of Afghanistan and an all around spiffy dresser)! I don't think it was him...but he looked Arab and had tons of security...they kept shooing us away. Nikki kept asking the Secret Service who it was lol. But they kept acting like it was a secret or something. They refused to answer but were nice about it. After that we split.

On the way home Nikki had the wonderful idea to lengthen and enrich our trip by having dinner in Baltimore so we drove all over the city trying to find a place that agreed with her...but she couldn't find pme so we ended up stopping in a Popeye's Joint in what Nikki deemed an unsavory neighborhood. It looked ok to me though.

We basically walked in the door and passed out on the bed. Whew!

Here are a bunch of pics from the weekend!