Weekend Update

Friday: Left work, went home and picked up Janet. Made our way to the airport and flew out about 10 minutes late. Landed in Baltimore around 9pm and took a train downtown. From there we took the metro to our hotel (a little run down, but friendly staff and a great location for $99). After checking in we took a quick walk around the block and decided to eat at the restaurant next to the hotel. I enjoyed some local beer with our complimentary popcorn and then ordered a burger with chips and an oreo cookie. After that we called it a night.

Saturday: Woke up and headed to a local waffle house for breakfast. Right next to the waffle house was the house where Lincoln died, so we walked around it. We then went to the Mall and took in the Capitol, the Washington Monument, the WW2 Memorial, the Lincoln Memorial and the Vietnam Memorial. Sadly, we missed the Korean War Memorial and the opportunity to have our picture take with the Freedom Isn't Free inscription while holding up $1.05.

After Lincoln we got some lunch at a great place called the Corner Bakery and took a walk past the back of the White House. We then took a walk into China Town and stopped in the Verizon Centre to buy something for my sister. We took a break for some coffee in Starbucks, then headed back to the hotel.

Around 6:30pm we met up with our friends (one from Washington, another down from Ottawa) for a tasty Thai dinner. That was followed by a house party where we drank some beer left over from the Big Gay Fundraiser (to fight a Virginia anti-gay marriage ammendment) and walked to a karaokee bar. My offer to sing the theme from Team America was not taken up, so I just watched the others.

Around 1:00am we got a slice of pizza and took a cab back to our hotel.

Sunday: Made our way to the Int'l Spy Museum, including some breakfast in their restaurant. After an interesting tour we hopped on the Metro to Virginia to meet up at the grocery store. We met up with our friends again and did the necessary shopping for Canadian Thanksgiving. Predictably the only turkeys we could find were frozen, so we went with a pre-cooked one. We then hiked back to the house and began food prep.

As we prepared dinner we presented our host with the traditional Canadian Thanksgiving offers of Canadian Club and Smarties. A couple other people (one from Toronto, living in Washington and one real American) joined us and brought the pies. We ate, drank, talked and watched Tivo'd episodes of It's Always Sunny in Philidelphia until about 1am, then caught a cab back home.

Monday: Returned to the Waffle House for a quick breakfast before taking the Metro back out to Virginia to visit one of the aforementioned friends at the Institute for Human Studies. She showed us around the office, introducing us as "the Canadian libertarians" while we explained the details of Canadian Thanksgiving.

After that we made our way back to DC for a quick tour of the Jefferson Memorial before getting back to the hotel, picking up our bags and heading to the airport. Our plane was about an hour late, but eventually we made it back to Detroit and drove home.