Washington DC

This past weekend, Justin and I spent the weekend in DC. He had some meetings with some text book publishers (kind of like a focus group) and I got to tag along. It was a 3.5 hour drive.
Our hotel:

We got in around 4pm on Friday, so we did some sightseeing and walked down to the White House. This is the closest we were able to get:

For my birthday, Justin got me a new camera. It has a great zoom:

On Saturday, Justin was in meetings, so after breakfast I went out and did some touring on my own. I did a tour of Ford's Theater (around the corner from our hotel):

Then I took a hike up to the capital:

I really enjoyed that tour! I have a lot more pictures here if you want to look through: https://picasaweb.google.com/paigeisone/March2011

I met up with Justin and his group for dinner at Oceanaire Seafood Room. AMAZING food!

On Sunday before heading home, we toured the Natural History Museum:

And then stopped in Georgetown on our way home to see the site of the show DC Cupcakes:

The line was super long and the cupcakes don't get very good reviews. So we went on a tip from a DC resident and stopped at Baked & Wired just a few blocks away for the best cupcakes I've ever had!



It was really nice to spend some time for just the 2 of us and get to do some sight seeing. I look forward to taking the girls back in a few years when they'll be more interested in history.