What a great day! Sitting in the Bar at the Hotel with an amazing martini while I am writing this. Wi-fi in the room is almost non-existent.
Introduced ourselves to the Metro system with friendly advice from Metro employees. It is very easy. One of the advantages of old age is a Senior Transit Pass!!...half the price of Dorothy's!!
Managed to find our way to The Mall and wandered around the Capitol building, visited the National Museum of the American Indian for a lunch that offered a great variety of food in the cafeteria. I had quinoa & cauliflower salad with blue cornmeal bread and Dorothy devoured a chipotle chicken taco. Of course the architecture of this building is wonderful too.
From there we "walked the solar system" down the south side of The Mall from our SUN to PLUTO.
Incredibly, we found ourselves at the Hirshhorn Gallery Sculpture Garden. OMG!!
Introduced ourselves to the Metro system with friendly advice from Metro employees. It is very easy. One of the advantages of old age is a Senior Transit Pass!!...half the price of Dorothy's!!
Managed to find our way to The Mall and wandered around the Capitol building, visited the National Museum of the American Indian for a lunch that offered a great variety of food in the cafeteria. I had quinoa & cauliflower salad with blue cornmeal bread and Dorothy devoured a chipotle chicken taco. Of course the architecture of this building is wonderful too.
From there we "walked the solar system" down the south side of The Mall from our SUN to PLUTO.
Incredibly, we found ourselves at the Hirshhorn Gallery Sculpture Garden. OMG!!
Self portrait with model at Bergamo
by Giacomo Manzu
Sisters
by Henry Moore
Lunar Bird
by Joan Miro
Brush Stroke
based on a piece by Roy Lichtenstein
Sub Committee
by Tony Cragg
The martini is great in this bar and the music belongs to the 40's. The bartender, Taj, is a dapper "silver fox" who has tended bar for the past 40 years.
This city is amazingly pedestrian friendly. There are thousands of walkers, cyclists, joggers along the pathways. Everyone is very friendly and helpful, dispensing advice and info. The historical architecture is breathtaking. Our hotel is in Embassy Row (Dupont Circle) so we walk past Ecuador, Belarus, Costa Rica and many others.
Before dropping our shoes and heading for the bar in our hotel we dropped into the National Museum of Natural History to see the Hope Diamond, a Dinosaur collection, Egyptian mummies and underwater wonders. What a day! And it is not over yet?!
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