Today I decided to mention about the trip that Debbie and I took to Washington DC the first week of September 2008. We were there 8 days and it was 90 degrees or more every day we were there. Debbie took lots of pictures and I have them on my computer. It was hard to decide what I wanted to put on my blog. I just picked these pictures because I liked them. Besides walking to museums and other places, we did do four bus tours. The top picture on the left was the last tour we took. It was Colonial Williamsburg. We got caught in the tail-end of a hurricane that was going up the East Coast. Almost every visitor site was closed. So the picture is an empty street. Debbie said she had been there before and there were so many things going on. It was still pouring rain when we got off the bus but it was very warm. There was a huge puddle on one of the streets we had to go across. I am way beyond jumping over puddles, so I just walked right through it. Like I said, the weather was so warm and with the rain I felt like I was walking in a bathroom shower. You don't get chilled like you do in Seattle when you get wet. Eventually it stopped raining and my shoes and socks dried out. It was an interesting experience. The picture on the right is Gettysburg. I think that was probably my favorite tour. There is so much history there that your mind can hardly comprehend it. I loved the towns of both Colonial Williamsburg and Gettysburg. I love small towns as I said before. The picture on the bottom is one that someone took of my beautiful daughter, Debbie, and me.

Debbie had booked us a hotel in Washington DC that was close to the museums and places we wanted to see. By 11:00 AM. in the mornings, it was already hot. I am surprised I was able to walk as much as I did. We took the Metro a few times but ended up taking a Taxi a lot going back to the hotel. I was usually exhausted by late afternoon. Debbie is very patient with me because I can be a whiner if something seems too hard. Sometimes I would ask her if we had to walk much further she would point out a nearby place and say that is where we are going but when we got there, I found out usually we were going further. She did a good job prodding me along. One day I did get very tired and hot. We must have walked about 4 miles.

The hotel we stayed in was an old hotel and had an elevator with an elevator operator. No matter whether we walked to the hotel or got out of a cab, someone was always there to help me up the stairs to the elevator.

I am not going to go into all the things we did and saw. We just had a nice time. I think that the best part of any vacation is just being with family. I will always remember our time in Washington DC. There is so much history in that whole area. You cannot appreciate all there is to see there in just a short trip.