Out Of Town

Living in the city is NOISY! Firetrucks, helicopters, beeping horns, and even a marching band in the alley between our apartment and the Ritz next door (we went out to see and it looked like an Indian wedding or some celebration that involved lots of drums…).

Last night I chose to sleep with the windows shut, which I almost never do at home. I need the window cracked open at minimum, even in the mid winter and mid summer.

Today we headed out to Virginia to the Air and Space Museum Annex. The building, an old hangar near Dulles Airport, is HUGE and filled top to bottom with aircraft and spacecraft. We saw the Enola Gay (which after having been to Hiroshima this summer was very interesting — Chloe wanted to know if it was a BAD airplane for having dropped the bomb that caused so much death and destruction. We saw the Space Shuttle Enterprise, tiny one-man planes and a Concorde. We were a bit disappointed that we could not climb in any of the planes there, however.

air and space – 14 sep 2008

The iPhone got us to a nearby Moe’s for lunch, then we headed over to Maryland. The roads have changed a little, but much of the area where we used to live is the same. We drove through the neighborhood that we lived in when Camille was born.

great falls – 14 sep 2008

Rob bought a C&O pass last week, so it was free for us to go into the Great Falls park to walk down along the towpath and then out to the Olmstead Islands to see the falls. The girls enjoyed an Italian ice at the snack bar before we hopped in the car to take Clara Barton back to DC and return the car to its five star accommodations.