In August, my sister Rebecca and her husband, Dave, came with his kids for a trip to Washington, DC. It was the first time for them to come to Washington (as well as the first time the kids had been on a plane!) Of course it happened to be the hottest days of the year during their visit--some days the temperature reaching 99 degrees and 80+% humidity. The humidity did not go over well with these desert-living folks.
Still I think that they had a good time in their three days here. I made sure that they saw some pretty fun and cool things, exhausting them and filling their heads with all sorts of historic factoids--that is what we historians are good for, after all, when we act as tour guides.
We saw the Library of Congress, the Zoo, the Capitol building and new visitors' center, the Botanical Gardens, the Freer and Sackler Galleries, the Natural History Museum, the Air & Space Museum, Eastern Market, the White House, the monuments & memorials (at night of course, cuz that's the best time to see them), and a fun dinner at a Moroccan restaurant, complete with a belly dancer who can balance a sword on her head. We also had a drive around the neighborhoods of Cleveland Park and Georgetown, a quick trip to the Cathedral (it is only two blocks away after all), shopping on M Street, a cook out at home, and pizza in Glover Park.
All in all, I think that in three days, the Smiths walked about 2313415 miles and sweated about 312 LBs in water out of their systems. They deserved the next 4 days at the beach. I am just wondering, why I didn't go with them to recover?
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