Monday, July 5, 2010

Project 365 - Mt. Vernon





It's warm, warm, warm here in DC. Record heat expected the rest of the week - I can't complain, I'd rather have this heat than the rain we had in Seattle. It does make it difficult to run but I'm getting up early and doing it before the heat gets to be too much.

Today's picture of the day was taken at Mt. Vernon the home and final resting place for George Washington. It was pretty cool to tour a house so old and once occupied by the first president of the United States. The grounds were especially pretty.

When we got back to DC we headed out on a long walk to check out a running trail along the Potomac River for tomorrow mornings run. The walk ended up being about 4 hours along Embassy Row, continuing to National Cathedral.




The Cathedral was beautiful as were the surrounding gardens.





We continued to walk toward Georgetown University to check out the campus and than shopped in the area. It was really hot today and tomorrow is supposed to break 100. Thank God we have a nice pool to retreat to every afternoon. Dinner at a nice Itialian place called Floriana on 17th - very good! One more full day of vacation and then the work begins on Wednesday evening through Friday.

Later -

Jim


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2 comments:

  1. Looks good. Glad you're having great weather. It rained the entire week-end here and it was a long week-end, but to be honest - I love the dark weather!

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  2. I wonder what George thinks about DC now if he can observe it. I bet if anything he would be impressed with the advances in dentistry. I bet it was an incredible experience. So what is the National Cathedral, non denominational?

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