VISIT
Mount VernonFDR Monument- Roosevelt Island
- Baltimore (I hear there's a cool aquarium? And something about the Inner Harbor)
Annapolis- Shenandoah
- Monticello (Charlottesville)
- Colonial Williamsburg (added 1/11/14)
- National Postal Museum
- National Museum of Women in the Arts (free on the 1st Sunday of the month!)
Ford's Theater- Crime and Punishment museum
Old Town Alexandria- Hains Point
- Francis Scott Key Memorial Park
- U.S. Naval Observatory
Newseum (but for free... There has to be a way to get in there for free...)- Finish all the Smithsonians
- Boston (East coast trip. Maybe New England, too?)
- Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens
Harper's Ferry (tubing?) but NOT tubing. I decided it's too terrifying!National Basilica of the Shrine of the Immaculate Conception- National Arboretum --> added 10/10/14
See "The Awakening" sculpture one more time
ONLY IN DC
- LIVE IN THE DISTRICT AGAIN (Sorry, MoCo)
- Watch the Supreme Court live
- Mini golf at the National Building Museum
Watch the House in sessionWatch the Senate in session- Meet Hillary Clinton (insert SQUEALS!!!)
- Take a photo with POTUS (I've shaken his hand and gotten patted on the head by FLOTUS, but I've yet to get a photo with either of them!)
Busboys and Poets- National Christmas Tree Lighting
Go on a date to Take 5- Free concert at LOC
- Run ALL the way around the entire Mall!
Play in a softball or kickball league on the Mall- Tour the Pentagon (Is that allowed? It'd be cool... :D)
Watch planes take off at Gravelly PointDo a bike tour of DC, Mt. Vernon Trail, etc.- Study at the LOC (I already have a library card, but I've yet to use it!
Sit in the big chair in Anacostia- See a show at the Strathmore (technically not in DC, but you know)
- Dancing at Cafe Citron
- Get proposed to at the WWII Memorial (Kidding! Or am I?)
Ride the Capital Wheel at National Harbor!
DC EATS
Brunch at Founding FarmersGood Stuff EateryHawk & Dove- quintessential DC barEat at We the PizzaEat Ethiopian food- Policy restaurant and lounge (This is such a cliche place, but I've yet to go!)
- Watch a movie on my laptop somewhere on the Mall
Bilbo Baggins Restaurant & Pub in Old Town AlexandriaLarry's Ice Cream in Dupont- Find a dang taco place in DC...
ROOT FOR THE HOME TEAM
- Go to a Capitals game
- Go to a DC United game
- Go to an Orioles game (I hear Camden Yards is amaaazing!)
- Watch a GW rowing match on the Potomac
** Annapolis = items I've accomplished as of 02/11/12
**FDR Monument = items completed as of 07/04/13
**Brunch at Founding = items completed as of 10/10/14 So much still to do!
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Let's meet up for a run and then breakfast at Gravelley point one of these Saturdays in the very near future. Also, I'm totally game for Annapolis. I've only been there at night; I need to spend some daylight hours there.
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