Washington D.C.

Well, as our exciting week was ending with Daniel and Lacy, another great surprise was in store right around the corner.  Our great friends Andy and Liz drove down from Boston and hung with us for a tour of the Nation's Capitol! They got down early Friday morning after driving all night and met us at the hotel in Tyson's Corner, and we promptly did what Joey and Andy always do...eat!!!!   After a wonderful complimentary breakfast from the hotel, Andy and Liz retired to their room for an afternoon siesta.  So I figured if their taking a nap, we should too!  After waking at about 3 pm, we decided to brave the traffic and have a nice lunch/ dinner at Gordon Biersch!!!  So after some tall beers and a huge banana split we headed back to the room and awaited Daniel and Lacy's arrival. Shortly thereafter, we decided to take a ride into DC and take some photos!!!  We were having a grand ol' time until we realized we had no gas and had to traverse the crazy streets of Washington looking for a gas station.  We finally found one, prices were a little high, but we had to have it.  One Problem however, this particular gas station also served as the citys cab stop.  At every pump sat an empty cab with no one around.  We sat in the car for about 4 minutes before Lacy lost her shit and ran inside and yelled at the entire gas station.  Hilarity ensued!!!  Needless to say, they promptly moved out of our way and we were back in action.
The next day we did Washington.  We toured around the mall, the Washington Monument, and the new World War II memorial.  This was really neat to us.  I had never seen this before and it was absolutely beautiful.  I especially liked that every state was represented by its own column.  Andy and Liz also got a chance to go hang with Lincoln and see the Korean War and Vietnam War memorials.  We ate ice cream on a park bench in the shade!!!  Sounded like a good trade off!!!  After this we all met up and went to the holocaust museum.  Lot of info and a beautiful museum, not really a fun place to go though, but very informative!!!  At this point we had had enough and it was time for dinner!!!  Where should we go?  Ahhh, to Gordon Biersch of course!!!  It was so good yesterday, why not?  We all had a great time!!!  We want to thank Andy and Liz for meeting us in Washington and also to thank Daniel and Lacy for hanging with us through the weekend together!!!  Its friends like these that make Laura and I realize when we do decide to return home, we have good people to keep us company!!!  Thank you all!!!