Off we go to Washington DC

Thanks to some wonderful friends I was able to spend a few days site-seeing around DC. Many, many thanks to the Cortez family. Lots more thanks to Liz for putting this mini-vaca together.



Here are some views from the top of the Washington Monument:

To get to the top of the monument you must have a ticket. We left the house at 630ish to get on the bus that takes us to downtown DC. We immediately hiked over to the monument. It was about 930 AM. All of the tickets were gone. The next day we caught an even earlier bus and arrived at the monument about 815 AM. The line was already very long. We reached the window at 915 and they still had a few tickets remaining. One of the time slots available was 930AM so we took those tickets and headed up the hill to the magnificent monument. A few minutes later we found ourselves at the top looking out the windows at the beautiful view.