First Day in DC ..

We got into DC Monday afternoon with no problems at all. It was going well right until we started to come into DC. Once again, I took us in for the scenic drive through parts of DC that we might have been okay not knowing about. The really funny thing was we are only about three blocks from the action! We found our apartment. I'm laughing because really, that is all I can do. You assume everything seems okay. For us, we are having Mikasuki flashbacks. This was the neighborhood and duplex we lived in when both our houses were built for a short period of time. The quarters are small and you feel like you are on top of one another. This DC brownstone is no different really. The carpet is coming in places and could use a really good cleaning or replaced. There are so many holes in the walls that have been patched and never painted. The beds are mattresses sitting on homemade wooden boxes. And there are bars on all the windows, well, what windows there are. We are in the basement, affectionately renamed "the dungeon", so we have little windows that have bars where the sidewalk is. And they are covered with some sort of white paper blinds. Needless to say, Scott is working through this one too!!!! He is so out of his comfort zone it isn't even funny!!!! But he is really trying to be a good sport :) The dining table has been handmade too. I'm pretty sure if I was to lay down on this table, it would collapse. It is simply wooden pieces cut with those peg legs you get at Home Depot and they are screwed in with black screws and a pink/white plastic checkered table cloth has been thrown over the top of it! I'm really giving a lot of details, aren't I? Oh, the couch and chair in here? I'm pretty sure it is one of those pieces you pick up at IKEA where it might cost you $150 and last six months!!! LOL!!! It is really hysterical. You gotta laugh about it ....

So we found the dungeon and left to find some lunch. We drove right into downtown DC which is only about two miles away. Guess what we found? We found a Corner Bakery!!! Yeah!!! Something familiar!!! This is our favorite little cafe that we eat at every year in Chicago!! We parked and grabbed a wonderful late lunch. Then we walked to see the White House because it was only three blocks away. And we saw The Department of Treasury and where Truman built his house and the Red Cross building and a tons of other buildings.

At this point, we are attempting to tell the kids about the buildings. They are having way more fun walking the curbs and chasing one another. We decided the history is going to need to come from someone else; such as the double decker tour bus tomorrow!

Scott went to the grocery store and walked home. He called his friend, Gary, and said, "Listen, I may have called and said this before but I am going to tell you now. I'm going to die tonight walking home from this store. So when I do, I want you to tell everyone that I called you very calmly and what I've just said and that I knew it was going to happen." Gary thought that was pretty funny ..... he made it home safely from the Safeway! Is it bedtime yet?? Could someone lock the doors and be sure the bars are on tight???!!!!!