Ken Nelson

Location: Washington, D.C.

Day 20 Pictures.
All Trip Pictures.

We all slept in today, not getting going til 10:30 or so.  A bit late for breakfast, so we trucked on down to Au Bon Pan on M street for a snack. Here Brian digs into a bread bowl of clam chowder. This is was constitutes “light snack” for him these days:

Our plan was to do the trolley tour and then break up in to two touring efforts. So we walked over to the ritzy Mayflower Hotel to catch the trolley. As usual, a protest was in full force (they are a constant in D.C.). This one was Eritreans protesting their government:

Right across the street Jenny waited at the Mayflower Hotel:

The Mayflower is one of the best hotels in D.C.. Rooms easily exceed $700 a night there.

Ding Ding. The Trolley arrived:

It drove us around Northwest Washington – up Connecticut  past the Hilton where Reagan was shot, then into Adams Morgan and over into the bottom of the Woodley Park area. Then over to Wisconsin by the National Cathedral (sorry no pictures – I was on the wrong side of the Trolley). Then down Wisconsin to Massachusetts and the start of Embassy Row.  Then past the White House and eventually dropped us off at Ford’s Theater (where Lincoln was shot).

There we split up. Jenny and Paula went off to Smithsonian Natural History Museum. Brian and I went to the Spy Museum.  We had planned to do other things but the Spy Museum was truly excellent. Very well put together and interesting. Brian also did a “mission” as a spy – in an interactive thing they do as an extra. I waited in the cafe for him to complete it, which he did successfully but can’t tell me about it!

Then dinner at Gordon Biersch brewery. Exciting for a bit as an ice cream truck slammed into a a Volvo and into the crowded patio seating. Nobody hurt.