October 27, 2024
A long day, but faster than it seemed. Despite us being in DC for a few days, it felt like we didn’t have enough time to visit with Kirt, Tricia, Paige, and Lisa/James. It felt like a blur to me, but it was probably doubly so for Liz.
All in all, I’m quite awed by what Liz has done. I know Tricia and Paige also completed the marathon, but for Liz… this was her first. And something she’s been working and training for, for almost a year. I’ve seen the work and struggle up close, and trust me when I say to you: it’s a LOT.
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October 26, 2024
For most of the day, but especially starting from here on out… Liz kept saying “I’m freaking out!”
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October 24, 2024
After a bit, we moved outside and got to settle in on a bench just by the front doors. Took this photo of the nearby alley, where this (and other) shops are situated. I learned that Blagden Alley is a bit famous for its murals, and loved that we kind of “discovered” this interesting area within the city.
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October 24, 2024
We tried looking at the whisky list (it’s 72 pages long). While we had some favorite distilleries to look up, Liz and I soon gave up after a few minutes of searching.
The person helping us was Chris (the whisky advisor), someone Max recommended we speak with. A bit of serendipity there.
We gave Chris some general preferences, and the next thing we knew he was off and climbing up the ladder.
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October 23, 2024
In our hotel room, with the assortment of powders and food and snacks she brought with, for the race.
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September 28, 2016
After packing up our bags, we had a small bit of time to kill before our flight back to Chicago. So Liz and I decided to head across the street to the Freemason Temple, where we heard there were public tours.
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September 27, 2016
We eventually learned that it would take an hour plus to retrieve the documents she wanted, and most of the manuscripts I was interested in were actually stored off-site (and would be difficult to procure on the same day). So after a bit of research, we just wandered around the alcoves a bit.
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September 26, 2016
Later in the afternoon, we met up with Lisa and Wyatt at Theodore Roosevelt Island. We were on the search for something a bit off to beaten path, and decided to do a bit of exploring.
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September 25, 2016
I ran upstairs and knocked on the door. It was a little hard to hear, but I made sure the people in the room were ok and no one was hurt. I also told them that water had leaked through the ceiling to our room. All I heard was “Oh my god.”
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September 24, 2016
By the time we made it back to the house, it had gotten quite dark. But it made for this incredibly lovely view.
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September 23, 2016
Back at our room, we had a long and relaxing afternoon. Lucky us, we found Star Trek on the TV (we just started season one of the original series about a week ago, and are making our way through).
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September 22, 2016
On arriving at our hotel in Alexandria, Liz and I walked down King Street to a place called Society Fair. Though we got in late (around 9:40), we had a lovely dinner and a few glasses of wine.
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May 16, 2013
Originally posted on the National Mall and Memorial Parks Facebook page, this helmet cam video shows a group of construction works setting up scaffolding high atop the Washington Monument.
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December 5, 2010
For our second day in DC, Jake met up with us and we went to visit a few of the monuments along the Mall. First, we stopped at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial – a place that I had always heard much about, but never visited. There are a total of 58,267 names listed on the memorial. It’s a tough number…
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December 4, 2010
After eating breakfast at our B&B, Liz and I ventured out in search of a bus that would take us closer to the monuments. We hopped aboard a random bus, and eventually got off a block or so from the White House.s Photo through the gates. In hindsight, I should have booked one of the tours as it would have…
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