my journey, destination unknown
The girls and I are home again from DC. We are unpacked and just about caught up on most things, though I do have a large to-do list for work waiting for me to tackle it. Helping Rob move to DC was a bit surreal. It felt like helping a kid go off to college….
If you are intrigued, visit Rob’s Blog… The apartment is in Foggy Bottom, 9ish blocks from the White House and next door to the Ritz-Carlton. Our accommodations are not quite up to Ritz standards. More like grad student standards. But the apartment is clean, is amazingly located and has an incredible rooftop patio/pool. It is…
The apartment doesn’t have Internet yet and is terrace level (no patio), but it does have this awesome rooftop pool! We are next door to the Ritz…
Today starts our DC adventure! Rob packed the car last night, not leaving room for me and the girls to bring clothes. Hmmph. He rearranged, taking out some Legos(!) so that we could fit in our bag of clothes. We’ll be back to Georgia in a couple of days after helping him move in and…
The girls were not up for any ambitious sightseeing after we checked out of our hotel and headed to Manhattan. We took the subway to Times Square. Camille had in mind the chocolate stores. There were 50 police cars there; from what I gathered they were filming the movie “The Taking of the Pelham 123”….
This morning, the girls and I walked over to the F train and rode it all the way to the end at Coney Island. Were they surprised that you could take the train to the beach! how cool is that! We walked over to the boardwalk, but almost nothing was open. Around noon, all the…
Could there be any doubt? We headed out early and got on the F train to Union Square. We quickly found a deli and grabbed some bagels and coffee (milk for the girls). We sat at a table in Union Square to eat, then walked through the wonderful farmer’s market that was going on there….
the train didn’t seem to have wireless, so I was off-line for over 24 hours for the first time in quite a while, I think. We got into Penn Station around 2pm, hopped on the uptown train (after fighting with the machine that would not sell me three subway cards), and got to the Museum…
The girls and I headed up to Washington DC for an XM Kids Rumpus Room concert. We got to see one of our favorites, The Hipwaders! While there, we went to the Postal Museum, Union Station, many Smithsonian Museums on the Mall and stayed at L’Enfant Plaza! It was a great weekend, and we can’t…
As in Washington DC PS. While this photo may not be really interesting, its timing is. As you can see, ten minutes later, the station became quite a zoo: Suspicious Package Stops Union Station Trains Briefly By Joshua ZumbrunWashington Post Staff WriterFriday, November 16, 2007; 4:28 PM Traffic was temporarily halted at Union Station this…