Vacation to D.C. and Beyond
Our family left Friday night for our annual two week vacation. For the past several years, we’ve gone to Colorado (Denver, Colo Springs, Rocky Mtn National Park, Grand Lake, Glenwood Springs), which we always enjoy. But this time, we just wanted to see something different. Jacob’s never seen any part of New England and I’ve only seen parts of it in passing.
11:45 p.m. Friday, July 25: We got two sleeping compartments on the Amtrack which took us from the station north of Fort Wayne all the way to Washington D.C.
3:30 p.m. Saturday, July 26: Arrived in D.C. and took cab to hotel in downtown, about a mile from the Capitol building.
4:00-10:00 p.m. July 26: Got checked in and hung around the hotel. We ordered room services. Jacob and I got some mean chicken wings. Julie ordered a salad. And a bucket of Amstell Light. Went swimming on the rooftop pool.
J & J went on a walk and took some nice snapshots. I stayed at the pool area to finish reading Arthur C. Clarke’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, which is really good, by the way.
10:30 p.m., July 26: Sack time.
I enjoyed reading anything by Clarke that I could get my hands on. 2010 (as always, better than the movie) and 3001 were also good reads.
it’s a pity Clarke was an evolutionism believing atheist.
Rev. James Leistico
31 Jul 08 at 7:37 pm