summary posts: photo friday: washington monument – 2 oct 2014 photo friday: white house tour – 3 oct 2014 photo friday: us capitol photo friday: […]
photo friday: national zoo
It is rare that we make a trip to DC and skip the zoo, not even for bad weather. In the past few years, we’ve […]
photo friday: u.s. capitol
Since we haven’t been to the Capitol for years, not since before the opening of the new Visitor’s Center, I though we’d squeeze in a […]
photo friday: white house tour
Back when I was a kid, taking a tour of the White House was no more complicated than taking a tour of any other historic […]
photo friday: washington monument
Despite our quite numerous extended trips up to DC, especially the year that Rob had an apartment there, we never made it to the Washington […]
photo friday: a few hours in washington, dc
I was so happy that day back in July when a Rumpus Room invitation came in my email – a concert that coincided perfectly with […]
live in concert: OneVoice Rocks!
When I first heard about the OneVoice Rocks! Festival, I knew the girls and I had to get there. Some of our favorite bands (SE […]
Photo Friday: Sirius/XM in Washington DC
The girls and I started making trips up to XMRadio to be in the audience of live recordings back in 2006. On our first trip, […]
weekend report – day two
After the Dog on Fleas concert at Sirius/XM, the girls and I headed off, with our friends, to their House in the Woods in Maryland. […]
weekend report – day one
I can’t believe how long it has been! Just a bit short of a year since we’ve been to my ultimate happy place … The […]
sirius/xm – 21 jan 2011
Up at 6:30 after having arrived at midnight, out the door with breakfast in hand by 7:30am, Union Station by 11am. Then off to my […]
A Little Gem
Despite it having been recommended by multiple people last year, we never managed to make it over to the Eastern Market, a few blocks southwest […]
A Weekend of Justin Roberts is Just Not Enough
36 hours after escaping north Georgia, we hit the road again … back to DC. There’s just something about that city which keeps calling us […]
city life
There’s something about this city. Even if I don’t visit a single museum, I love being in DC; I feel at home whenever we come […]
live in concert – The Verve Pipe
We parked in our usual parking spot at Union Station, went to the bookstore and then walked up to XM to see The Verve Pipe […]
national zoo and the singing zoologist
sunday morning, we headed to the metro station near here and jumped on a train into DC. The girls are old pros and slapping their […]
room with a 180 degree view
when planning our trip to DC, we kept in mind the snow. the piles, the mounds, the mountains of snow that might remain from “Snowpocalypse […]
photos and videos from the weekend in DC/VA
Weekend photos: Ralph at XM: Ralph at Jammin’ Java:
headed home, the long way around
after a slow morning invoving a bagel breakfast and a swim in the pool, we checked out of the hotel and headed home. But not […]
escaping the crowds
on saturday morning, we headed over to Jammin’ Java to see another show. I was shocked by the traffic in Vienna, VA. The past few […]