Spycow

Karen and I hit up DC last week. It was pretty darned cool. I’d say something about it being weird to see all that history in one place, but I live in Boston, so… I will say it was a lot different to how it gets treated ‘round these parts. The National Mall in particular. A (relatively) vast expanse of “nothing” in the middle of a city, simply for the exposition of monuments. Karen has a bunch of the pictures from walking around the Mall on her facebook account. I found it a little touching that we’d care enough to honor our founding fathers so much to clear out a whole crapload of space just to show it. I also found it very dismal that not a quarter mile away were the people primarily responsible for removing the freedoms that those Founding Fathers fought so hard to secure, but what do I know? I occasionally write a self-centered blog post, so therefore I’m importants!

That aside, the city itself was quite nice. I could see myself living there, although I may be skewed on the weather aspect considering it snowed while we were there. I have a feeling that doesn’t happen often. Meh, liked it just the same. We met up with Deb who moved down there a few months ago, which was cool. The food was really good, but a touch expensive. Though I’m not convinced that that wasn’t because we were just touristing… or maybe because we ate at the same 4 places all week. Hey, they were really freaking good, shut up. Greek/Lebanese tapas, Mexican tapas (we ate grasshoppers!), a steakhouse (with an extensive whiskey menu), and a “Grille” near the White House. It may have been repetitive, but it was good, damnit.

Karen went for a conference, so I worked on the days she did, and the other days we explored. I had a lot of fun, and considering that we didn’t see all of the Smithsonian museums, we’ll have to go back. Well, that, and we didn’t get into the Capitol or the Washington Monument either, but, you know, details.