4th of July Weekend

Hi everybody,

I hope you all enjoyed your 4th of July weekends. It sounded like almost all of you had plans and so we couldn't be the only ones not doing something. My friend Laura and her fiance Brian came up on Friday afternoon. Once they got here we headed over to the mall to see if we could get into the Air & Space museum and see some of the other monuments. The A&S was slammed with lines out the door to get in so we walked on up to the Capitol to take pictures and they were having the dress rehearsal for the 4th of July concert. On the way to the capitol we stopped to roam around the Botanical gardens. There's an outdoor area that I don't remember being there and the weather was so gorgeous that it was a lot of fun to walk around. Anyways, after the gardens and capitol we decided to try the A&S one more time and were successful. We only had time for a few exhibits but I'm glad we were able to get in while Laura & Brian were here.

They wanted to finish seeing the mall sites so we went on a walking adventure and made it to the other end to see good Ol'Abe, taking pictures of the Washington and WWII monuments along the way. We then went to Georgetown for a late dinner and to walk around. Pictures from this day can be found here.


The next day we got up and headed to the Nats stadium to see the Braves play. Again the weather was fantastic, and we were in the shade and had a nice breeze the entire game--it was great. Unfortunately the Braves lost but we still had a great All-American 4th of July experience. (Pictures here) We came back to the apartment to regroup and grab some picnic food and then took off to Lady Bird Johnson park near Arlington Cemetery. We had been debating for a week or so about where would be the best place to watch and while we don't have anything to compare it to I think we picked the best place. It was across the river from the mall but we could see both the Lincoln and Washington monuments as we sat on the river bank. The fireworks were great and Ryan got some really good pictures. All-in-all it was a fantastic weekend and we were glad we had some friends to share it with.