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Sunday Night in DC

I had hoped to visit all the monuments west of the Washington Monument while we had the car, but we ran out of time.  The only one we visited was the Jefferson Memorial which is on the south side of the Tidal Basin.  We were too early in the season to see the blossoms on the cherry trees that arearound the Tidal Basin.  After 9-11 they moved the parking lot that was right south of the Jefferson Memorial.  Now we had to park over a quarter mile away and walk.  The statue of Jefferson shows him standing, looking across the Tidal Basin at the Washington Mounument.  I remember a few years ago when I came to DC with a group from Berthold to attend the natioal ABC convention.  Tanya was too young to go into the Holacaust Museum so she and I rented a paddle boat and cruised around the Tidal Basin.
     In the evening David and I met my cousin Blanch at a chile place in Alexandria for supper.  King Street in Alexandria is a tourist place with many quaint shops and restaurants.  A free trolley runs the length of the street.  The next time I come to DC I migght stay in one of the motels near the west end of King Street.  Alexandria is also the place of the school in the movie "Remember the Titans."  Both Blanch and I got confused because the Jefferson Davis Highway which we came into Alexandria on is not called that in town.  David and I asked a number of people on the street how to find it but they were all from out of town.  It took us 15 minutes to get out of there.  David has lost all confidence in my ability to navigate.  We turned in the rental car and traveled by bus, subway, and taxi back to our motel which is on the north end of DC, actually in College Park, MD.  So far nothing we have seen in Washington has impressed David more than Gettysburg.

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