Day 2- being a tourist

We spent our second day in DC seeing the sights.  We got a pretty early start to the day, figured out how to ride the Metro, and took it into the Smithsonian.  We saw all the usual stuff: Capitol building, Washington monument, Lincoln Memorial, Air and Space Museum, all of the war memorials, etc etc.  And then there was the White House.  Chappy and I really wanted to see the White House, but couldn't figure out how to get there, so we finally broke down and spent the $4.22 on a map.  We then stood on the street for 3 minutes trying to figure out which way to walk, both pointing in different directions, before I finally said, "Let's just follow this huge group of people.  They have to be looking at something."  Chappy agreed and then said "Watch we've been standing 30 feet away from the White House this entire time."  I said no way, but then figured knowing us, she was exactly right.  And as we got closer to the congregation of people, the hedges parted, and there was the White House.  It was very cool and so was the rest of the city, though I'm not gonna lie, you know you're getting old when you feel like you need stim after walking around DC.  When we finally got back to Q and Mara's we sat down on the couches and only got up for pizza delivery guy and eventually to shower.  I also introduced Chappy to one of the oldest video games ever, BurgerTime, which we played on Q's old school Nintendo.  Don't worry, we played Super Mario Bros. as well.  But anyways, we want to thank Q and Mara for letting us crash at their place and explore DC.  We had a great time and we miss you guys already!  But now it's 6:30 and we're on the road to Kentucky.  I'm off to try to make instant oatmeal with the water boiler in the car.  This should be fun.  PS that's Q at about 5 this morning.