Washington DC and the heat

We had lunch at the Sequoia with Stuart's old high school friend John that he hasn't seen in
25 years, lot of catching up to do, while Lily and I met everybody from the staff to other folks eating their lunch. That's what you get with a little one that prefers walking over sitting in a high chair.




On a day with record heat (about 100, which felt a lot more, due to the humidity) we decided
to spend the afternoon in the Museums to find some air-conditioned entertaining. We parked
our car along the Mall, and visited the Museum of.... (which was kind of lame, but nice and
cool) and then the Space Museum, which was kind of cool, especially because it had lots of
carpeted floors where Lily could cruise around and meet all kinds of people.


That night we went for Tapas and then walked to the Obelisk around 9 o'clock when it finally was cool enough to walk around. From there we walked to the World War II monument, which was very cool, especially at night.

Next day we were determined, and walked from our hotel to the .... monument, to the
Washington monument, to the White House and then had to stop at the Museum of Natural History to cool off. Lily was so thrilled to see all the dinosaurs, that it was hard to get her away from all the excitement (the place was insane, filled with screaming school kids, Kari's nightmare :)



Back at the hotel all we could was cool off at the pool while Lily was still asleep, the heat was killing us - and we thought about moving to Texas, ha!
Once we all recovered we got in the car and drove to Alexandria to visit Joey D and his wife
Karen, for some lovely dinner they cooked for us at the cool Town house (which they are
trying to sell so they can move to Novato). Lily was in love with their dog Fred, who was
thankful for all the food that she dropped on the floor.