A Weekend in the District

Over the Memorial Day weekend I had a wonderful trip to Washington D.C. and Baltimore.  I enjoyed the company of great friends, family and some great culture.

I always have mixed feelings when visiting D.C.  I am very much a big skyline person and I always want there to be more skyline in the city.  But skyline aside, I do love D.C. more and more each time I visit.  A friend at work told me to check out the National Museum of the American Indian, which we had about a half hour to spend in enroute to the International Spy Museum where we immersed ourselves in the Spy Adventure of our lives. Both were great experiences in their own way.

The architecture in the National Musuem of the American Indian was stunning, appropriate, bold and beautiful.  I couldn’t get enough of the lines and curves reflecting the beautiful landscape that the Native Americans have called home for so many years.  We also spent a bit of time looking at some of the exquisite dresses and ceremonial clothing with their detailed beading that must have taken hours upon hours to complete.  The International Spy museum was quite a change of pace, and loads of fun.  Who hasn’t dreamed of being in some sort of spy movie, we were hoping for a cross behind Breach and Mission Impossible and we were not dissapointed.  Operation Spy, had us riding creaky freight elevators, sifting through secret documents in a suspects vacant office, and dismantling surveilance cameras.  It was great fun and definitely tested the limits of what you could make a group of fairly sane adults do with a little bit of coaxing.

Oh, but the adventure didn’t stop there, we ended with a tasty meal of non-other than grasshopper tacos, and other more edible authentic mexican goodies.  Yes, I ate grasshoppers for the fun of it without throwing up and wouldn’t recommend it to anyone.

Thankfully I also got a dose of skyline with a brief excursion around the harbor and aquarium in Baltimore.  I always have such fond childhood memories of Baltimore everytime I visit the downtown.  As kids my siblings and I always looked forward to summer visits with Grandmom and Grandpop, that often included a trip to all the best places downtown.  Yesterday took me back—it was great.

I’ve posted a few of my favorite shots from the past few days.