The Rest of DC

So late Saturday morning we drove into DC. Found a parking garage with a weekend rate to park, $15 for the day, as opposed to $25 an hour on weekdays. Grabbed a bite to eat at The Purple Turtle, beats the street venders. And headed off to the National Mall.

We watched a kickball tournament for awhile. I don't think I've ever seen an all adult kickball game but it was fun to watch the antics. Then we walked all the monuments. The lines at the Washington monument were pretty long so we just roamed around. The WWII Memorial was really cool.

On a map the Mall doesn't look that big but when you walk to every one it gets bigger. Plus it was hot and the boys had a tough time keeping interested. We persevered and made to all of them. Plus a couple of less visited ones. We trudged back to the car, who in the heck parked it so far away, and headed home.

We decided to stay at the campground Sunday. Let the boys swim & play. They quickly made friends & disappeared for the majority of the day. Jackie & Rita did the laundry. We basically recharged our batteries....

Monday we took the Metro into DC, and did our Congressional tours. We did the Library of Congress in the morning. Now that was nice. If we go back, we need more time. Got lunch at a nice little restaurant near the Library, then walked to Congressman Enyart's office. When we got there we were warmly greeted by the staff, they knew who we were and we were shown around the office. Obligatory pictures sitting at his desk were taken.

Then we got the deluxe tour of the Capital by one of the Congressman's aides. Seamus McNamara, has been awesome. He has been in contact with me since we decided to visit DC, (if you plan on coming here, make sure you contact your Congressman). Any way we took the tunnel to the Capital Building zipped through all the lines & went straight in. Seamus was a wealth of knowledge & trivia. We got into areas that the public tours don't touch. We made it into the House Chambers, no cameras allowed though and the boys learned how sessions worked.

Seamus took time with the boys answering questions & chatting with them. Overall a great visit.

Metro'd back to the campsite & the boys vanished to find their new friends.

Here's the Country Coach part of the story. Parked directly across from us are two Country Coaches. It was two couples who are full-timers. They were very friendly. They invited us over & gave us tours of their coaches. The guys could hardly wait to get into our Founder's Edition. They have spent a lot of time modifying their coaches. It looks like mine came with many of those modifications right off the assembly line. Nice...

These guys began to tell me everything I needed to do to get CC "dialed in". My head was spinning. I started taking notes. Some of the things I need to do have already been done, a couple are on my to do list & a few are in the near future. That means after I stock pile some cash. Overall they validated our purchase. That made us feel good.

I spent the rest of the day pouring over my manuals & coach records to see what I should do next.

Anyway, we began to prep CC for leaving. Tuesday we have a White House tour at 8am & need to meet Congressman Enyart's & his wife Judge Eckert at the gate at 7:30. After the tour we need to scoot back to the campsite & check out by 11.

 

 

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