Christmas 2019

Christmas 2019 and Washington DC after Christmas

DC after Xmas 2019:

Train to Union Station. Former GWU Inn, now Arc.DC, located right at Foggy Bottom metro stop.

Lunch at a sandwich place on the way to Ronald Reagan Center to try to get Global Entry renewed- it was closed. Then the American History Museum of the Smithsonian- ruby slippers, good exhibit on Americans and transportation and on Americans at war. First Ladies’ gowns. A couple of First Ladies took the title at age 21! Then to Kennedy Center for Love Factually- part spoof on the movie, part audience participation, part improv. Very dirty, very funny.

Friday- Museum of the Bible, lunch at Manna Cafe (a taste of Canaan), more of the museum, then National Archives for Dec. of Independ. , Constit., and Bill of Rights, all faded to the point of illegibility. Play tonight- My Fair Lady with an ambiguous ending- did Eliza stay or go and was HH happy or not?

Saturday- breakfast at a little bakery called Paul across from a farm to table place with an hour and a half wait. Then we tried to go to the Spy Museum. Spy Museum was too crowded (5 hour wait). We went to the Newseum instead. Our second visit, very moving as the previous time. I watched a clip of Anderson Cooper covering Katrina, tribute to John Stewart, late night show hosts on DJT, Pulitzer photos and cartoons.
Saturday night, back to Kennedy Center for "Come from Away", a musical about the people in Gander Newfoundland and the flights coming in on 9/11.