WA DC part 2

Okay, where was I? Right... so my hotel advertises complimentary yoga equipment so I asked at the front desk after breakfast if they would send up a yoga mat and they said they would straight away! Well, 40 minutes later I was finished with my yoga workout and still no mat. Oh well! We headed out to the Eastern Market and after getting on the wrong train at first, we had lunch at 7th Hill pizza which was amazing.

(Eric leading us astray)

Then we walked down to the Capital building and walked all around but it looked like we could not just wander inside. I guess you have to get a tour from your representative's office or something. By the way, if you want to tour the White House you also must contact your rep at least 21 days in advance. That was one thing I really wanted to do but sadly didn't know about the 3 week notice :( There were some guards wielding M-16s patrolling the capital, that was pretty crazy.



Then we wandered through the botanical garden for a minute before going to the air and space museum (zzzzz). We spent way too much time there, both of us thinking the other person was more interested than either of us really were. Our feet were really dying so we went to Starbucks and got coffee and sat outside and people watched for awhile. We tried to go to Arlington Cemetery after that but didn't get there until after 5pm and it was closed! Boo!

So we headed back up toward our home base to figure out what to have for dinner. We had a couple of happy hour drinks and snacks at a restaurant called Luna, and it was just ok. So we went out for sushi at a place called Cafe Japone (near Dupont Circle) and it was really really good. We were stuffed FULL of sushi and went back down to Cafe Citron and did a little salsa dancing before heading home to bed.

This morning I woke up just in the nick of time to make it over to the YMCA for Zumba!! I had a coupon from Eversave for this place called Fruit Bat so we tried to go there for lunch but ended up in the way wrong part of town (H street NW instead of NE). It was already like 1pm so we ended up scrapping that idea and having a mediocre lunch at Elephant and Castle downtown which was the DC equivalent of Applebee's I guess. After lunch we spent about an hour and a half each at the Museum of American History and the Holocaust Museum. Honestly, I'm just not too excited about museums... I think I am just as happy seeing the outside of the building! Plus waiting until Saturday to do museums was a huge mistake, I think there were twice as many people around as there were yesterday.

We made it over to Fruit Bat finally for a snack before our dinner reservations and it was really good. It was way up in the north east part of town and we had to walk a long way from the Metro station to get there, but it was worth the trip. Delicious homemade tacos and some unique mixed drinks, with a nice local feel. It's definitely not a touristy place.

So, our dinner reservations were at Fogo De Chao at 9pm. Fogo De Chao is not unique to DC but I've been wanting to go for a long time since someone told me about it like 5 years ago. Basically it is an all you can eat buffet with a really good salad bar and there are all these guys walking around with hunks of meat on swords that they bring to your table and cut pieces right off onto your plate. It was pretty awesome and a little pricey but we got our money's worth for sure. My favorite was the bacon wrapped filet mignon and the cheese puffs, YUM!

So, not a single picture was taken today! Boo! Tomorrow our plane doesn't leave until 5:30pm so we're hoping to check out Arlington before we have to leave. There might be some picture worthy sights there. We've been buying day passes for the Metro and are feeling pretty savvy about it. I definitely recommend if you are going to be in DC for a few days get a pass, it is so nice. I forgot how much I love the subway system, I wish they would build one in Spokane!