With what has now seemingly become a fun family tradition, we began our journey to Hubby's run in the Army Ten-Miler on Sunday with a trip up to D.C. for a long weekend much like both last year and the year before that...
We left
yesterday evening and made it all the way up to Richmond to spend the
night. The next morning we started out early with a stop at the
Virginia State Capitol for B's now customary capitol steps
run... We've been to more capital cities, but since he challenged
himself to running up the steps of each capitol building, this makes #17
complete on his Capitol Steps Challenge...
I guess that just means that we have a few that we have to go back and visit again!
We toured the grounds stopping at a few notable sites related to the U.S. Presidents...
From there we toured one of President Thomas Jefferson's lesser known homes, Tuckahoe Plantation, where he spent a good deal of his boyhood...
What a treat!
The home, still privately owned AND lived in, is available for private tours, but no photos are allowed inside...
After touring the home, the school house, and the grounds...
we continued on to the Washington Monument and our scheduled trip to the top ~ FIRST time to the top for all 5 of us!
we headed over to the hotel to retire for the night...
What a day!
More on tap for tomorrow...
I guess that just means that we have a few that we have to go back and visit again!
We toured the grounds stopping at a few notable sites related to the U.S. Presidents...
B even got to pet the Governor's dog!
From there, we headed over to Hollywood Cemetery to visit a few significant gravesites...
President James Monroe...
President John Tyler...
and President of the Confederate States, Jefferson Davis...
From there we toured one of President Thomas Jefferson's lesser known homes, Tuckahoe Plantation, where he spent a good deal of his boyhood...
What a treat!
The home, still privately owned AND lived in, is available for private tours, but no photos are allowed inside...
After touring the home, the school house, and the grounds...
we continued on to the Washington Monument and our scheduled trip to the top ~ FIRST time to the top for all 5 of us!
Now that going to the top is an option again, if you decide to do it, I highly recommend reserving your ticket here.
Though the Washington Monument IS a National Park and trips to the top
are free, the nominal service charge ($1.50/person) for reserving a
ticket online ahead of time is well-worth it in my book. We had a
scheduled time on our reserved tickets which cut down our wait time
significantly...
After a few rounds of Leapfrog on the park grounds,
we headed over to the hotel to retire for the night...
What a day!
More on tap for tomorrow...
