3:30am. that’s when I got up and turned on the coffee pot. Of course, I forgot to do a couple things I meant to do, […]
making lists
As our year of having an apartment in DC is coming to a close, I’m working on my list of the things I WON’T miss. […]
Getting Around DC
As I wrote in the post Subway versus Metro, I love the DC Metro for getting around. In addition, the metro buses are fairly easy, […]
Web Wednesday: DC Travel Sites
Where are the best bathrooms in DC? What’s a good place to get lunch (not the Air and Space Museum)? What time of day should […]
Night At The Museum
On Thursday, after we left XM following the Randy Kaplan concert, the girls and I returned to the National Museum of Natural History. Each time […]
NYC Subway versus DC Metro
As I wrote a couple times before, we took the train from DC to NYC for the weekend earlier this month. Riding the subway, metro […]
Europe in one day
A few weeks ago, we were fortunate enough to travel to Latvia, Spain, Germany, France, and Luxembourg … thanks to the third annual European Union […]
art lessons
By the time Camille was “this many,” she knew her impressionists. She could tell a van Gogh from a Monet. She had been to Giverny […]
DC LIke A Local
Okay, I’m no DC local. And I have not seen nearly all that DC has to offer. But I have found a blog called, obviously […]
Around DC
Besides going to the White House Easter Egg Roll and taking the bus to Vienna to see a kids’ show (more on that coming soon), […]
White House Easter Egg Roll
Not long after the sun rose, we started down Pennsylvania Ave towards the White House, stopping for coffee and muffins along the way. We joined […]
Easter Egg Roll
We are so excited! I spent most of the day reloading a web page. That’s not exciting. But that obsessive task led to the acquisition […]
National Building Museum
A new day, a new DC museum! Today we headed out to the National Building Museum. I’d been a long time ago and heard that […]
Play Ball!
On this the first day of spring, the girls and I headed out to see what signs we could spot. The weather could not decide […]
Books, Books Everywhere
But not a page to read. On Monday afternoon, after returning from Baltimore, we headed out to the Library of Congress to take a tour […]
City Saturday
We headed out around 8am this morning and stopped at the bagel place to get some breakfast. Only one guy was doing everything, so it […]
Lincoln’s 200th Birthday
Thursday Feb 12th was Lincoln’s 200th Birthday. After we left XM, we decided to get off th train at Metro Center and visit Ford’s Theatre. […]
The Streets of DC -Tuesday Edition
Despite my sister’s desire for us to go to bed early and get up early and get to The Mall early for optimal vieweng, we […]
The Streets of DC – Monday Edition
My folks, my sister and I spent about six hours on the streets of DC today. Again the mood was upbeat, even as places started […]