Why yes, Congressman, it does turn me on (a little)

[yrmencyn]

Greetings from our nation's capital!  Kevin picked me up from the Baltimore airport last night, nice and late (all my upcoming flights are late -- what is that?).  Since he has to be at his internship at 9am, we pretty much fell directly to sleep.  I'm sitting in a Caribou Coffee half a block away, trying to figure out what to do with myself for eight hours.  So far I've written a couple of emails, and that's taken up... a half-hour.  Woot! 

The times I've been to DC before, it's always been to see friends or friends-of-friends, so I've never actually done the usual touristy, except for the Natural History and Holocaust Museums.  I think here in a bit I'll hike down to the Mall and do the monuments.  I mean, it's what you do, right?  And I've never actually seen some of them (e.g. Vietnam War, Lincoln), which does seem... well, a bit inexcusable, honestly.  So yeah.  But if any of you have any suggestions on things to do and see, feel free to reply with a comment or just call me.  I'm currently at 17th & L (for those of you that really know DC too well), but anywhere in the Mall/GWU/Foggy Bottom/Dupont Circle area is totally in range.  Not to mention the fabulous Metro can take me elsewhere!  (I really, really love subway systems.  I don't know why, but they just make so much sense to me, in a way that buses, for example, never have.  Set me down in an unfamiliar bus system and I'm lost.  Set me down in an unfamiliar subway system and I'm pretty much instantly oriented.)

Already on the list: Teaism, The National Cafeteria of the American Indian (our joking name for the caf in the Nat'l Mus. of the Amer. Indian, which serves all traditional foods, apparently), the Pride parade (and thus by extension the Dupont Circle area), the aforementioned national landmarks walk.

Comments

[talyr.livejournal.com]

Definitely check out the zoo....if you are up for a walk, its a nice hike up Conneticuit from the Mall past Dupont Circle near Cleveland Park. I've done it a few times, and you can always take the metro in one direction or the other. Also, walk over to Georgetown and just wander amongst the awesome houses, and check out the gardens at Dumbarton Oaks. And stop at Lush and buy me bath products, because i am a Lush whore (M street, across from Sephora).

[yrmencyn.livejournal.com]

Right, of course. Because your Lush habit needs enabling. But we do hope to go to the Zoo, and I think I'll probably wander Georgetown (and Adams-Morgan, just to really get a good hike in *rolls eyes*).