From Grads to Nomads

Well we have been busy the past 3 days, and walking around 4 hours or so a day....needless to say our feet are a little sore!! We found a Sharper Image store in Georgetown today and thoroughly enjoyed the massage chairs! (As you all know, I am just a "little" fond of massage chairs"

Friday we wandered all over, beginning with lunch at Thai Chef for the best pad thai known to mankind. Following this, we dropped by the new office of the United Nations Association and I met the new interns, and made plans to meet up with my old workmates. We walked down the the Washington mall, and when we walked up to the Washington monument to get a closer look, we were offered free tickets from a military man to go up the elevator to the top of the tower, so that provided an awesome view!! One picture is from the top. We then went to the American History museum and saw all of the first lady's gowns, Lincoln's top hat, and Ben Franklin's suit, amoung other things. Later on, we met up with my workmates for martinis at Cloud, and had a great time catching up.

Saturday we checked out the start of the cherry festival, doing the walk around the tidal basin and viewing the large monuments. The trees are in partial bloom, and there are crowds a plenty!!! It was a fairly nice day though, and I forgot to mention, we had seen the vietnam wall and the LIncoln memorial the day before. We had lunch at Old Ebbitt Grill, the busiest restaurant in the city, and then had a late afternoon nap (much needed) before heading out to Virginia to meet my old roomate and her boyfriend for dinner at a Caribbean restaurant, which turned into a 3 1/2 hour and several mojito reunion!!

Today we saw the Hope Diamond, and some parts of the natural history museum, the Art gallery, where I was impressed by seeing Van Gogh's self portrait, and then we tried to see the Holocaust museum but it was full for the day, so that is up for the morning. We went ot georgetown instead and I found some fabulous tanks at J. Crew.

We have walked by the White house numerous times, wondering what exactly goes on in there. An old man was out on the street yesterday yelling "come out George, don't be a chicken!!"
Tomorrow we leave DC for Vegas, so more updates to come!!