Our D.C. Trip was a bit crazy!
There are chapters in this tale
There are chapters in this tale
Between Sept. 13th - Sept 16th
Chapter 1
"The Flight"
After getting up and checked out of our Cambridge hotel near Boston at 4:00am to catch our 6:05am flight, we got in the air with no problems. It was getting down and landing that took a while. Our flight was supposed to be around an hour from take off to landing, but after an hour past we were still in the air! Some more time passed when the pilot got on the intercom, "Attention passengers! We are currently in a holding pattern due to significant fog cover on the ground. We will let you know when we will be able to make a landing as soon as possible. Thank you!". Thank goodness we didn't have a connection flight to catch. The business men and women were freak'n out though! Then the pilot came back on the intercom, "The fog hasn't cleared so we are going to fly into Richmond and stay there until the fog clears at the Dulles Airport. Thank you!". Great! We have already been in 5 airports in the last 7 days at this point in the trip and now we have to sit and wait at one? Not what we wanted to do, not after waking up as early as we did that morning. After taxi-ing into the gate they told us we had to de-board the plane. Great, it's going to be a long wait for us, but as we exited there were signs of "Washington Dulles Airport" all around. We made it! The pilot forgot to inform us of the change in plans. Either way, we were supposed to land at 7:40am and we landed at 9:05am, but we arrived!
Chapter 2
Chapter 1
"The Flight"
After getting up and checked out of our Cambridge hotel near Boston at 4:00am to catch our 6:05am flight, we got in the air with no problems. It was getting down and landing that took a while. Our flight was supposed to be around an hour from take off to landing, but after an hour past we were still in the air! Some more time passed when the pilot got on the intercom, "Attention passengers! We are currently in a holding pattern due to significant fog cover on the ground. We will let you know when we will be able to make a landing as soon as possible. Thank you!". Thank goodness we didn't have a connection flight to catch. The business men and women were freak'n out though! Then the pilot came back on the intercom, "The fog hasn't cleared so we are going to fly into Richmond and stay there until the fog clears at the Dulles Airport. Thank you!". Great! We have already been in 5 airports in the last 7 days at this point in the trip and now we have to sit and wait at one? Not what we wanted to do, not after waking up as early as we did that morning. After taxi-ing into the gate they told us we had to de-board the plane. Great, it's going to be a long wait for us, but as we exited there were signs of "Washington Dulles Airport" all around. We made it! The pilot forgot to inform us of the change in plans. Either way, we were supposed to land at 7:40am and we landed at 9:05am, but we arrived!
Chapter 2
"The Rental Car"
After kissing the ground of the Washington Dulles Airport we had to catch a taxi to get to the off-site rental car place. We had to get to Chantilly, VA which saved us about $50 a day on the car. So I tell the taxi driver where to go and we are off. It was only about 11 miles away so it wasn't a big deal, so we thought. We get to where we thought it was and there's nothing. No sign just car dealerships. So we take another circle around the block while Sara's on the phone checking if this place exists and our taxi meter is climbing. The guy on the phone assures us that he is real and we try again. Come to find out this place is inside a Chrysler/Dodge dealership with zero signage to help our search. So I pay the taxi off and I take a sigh of relief. Well, I needed to suck that sigh straight back up because the child safety seat I ordered and confirmed was not available. I was not happy (and you all know how upset I can get, haha). I told the man, "I need that seat. This doesn't work without it.". My scare tactic worked! They sent someone to another location to fetch the seat. Yeah, an hour or so later I had my seat for my daughter and I was ready for a meal and a nap. We had jumped yet another hurdle that our DC trip threw at us.
Chapter 3
"The Final Chapter"
Now that we a had a car to drive, we had control of where and when we wanted to go. We headed to Front Royal, VA to close out our first day to sight see and grab a bite to eat. It was very beautiful, being apart of the northern Shenandoah Valley.
After kissing the ground of the Washington Dulles Airport we had to catch a taxi to get to the off-site rental car place. We had to get to Chantilly, VA which saved us about $50 a day on the car. So I tell the taxi driver where to go and we are off. It was only about 11 miles away so it wasn't a big deal, so we thought. We get to where we thought it was and there's nothing. No sign just car dealerships. So we take another circle around the block while Sara's on the phone checking if this place exists and our taxi meter is climbing. The guy on the phone assures us that he is real and we try again. Come to find out this place is inside a Chrysler/Dodge dealership with zero signage to help our search. So I pay the taxi off and I take a sigh of relief. Well, I needed to suck that sigh straight back up because the child safety seat I ordered and confirmed was not available. I was not happy (and you all know how upset I can get, haha). I told the man, "I need that seat. This doesn't work without it.". My scare tactic worked! They sent someone to another location to fetch the seat. Yeah, an hour or so later I had my seat for my daughter and I was ready for a meal and a nap. We had jumped yet another hurdle that our DC trip threw at us.
Chapter 3
"The Final Chapter"
Now that we a had a car to drive, we had control of where and when we wanted to go. We headed to Front Royal, VA to close out our first day to sight see and grab a bite to eat. It was very beautiful, being apart of the northern Shenandoah Valley.
We stopped by "Five Guys", the IN-N-OUT of the East Coast, for a late dinner and that ended our day.
On the second day, we decided to cruise toward Washington D.C. and on the way we ran across the Arlington National Cemetery, "Hey Babe, lets check it out first and then head to our Nation's Capital. It shouldn't take long..." I said thinking we could do both in one day...that didn't happen. We spent almost 3 hours in that Cemetery. Beautiful, with all it should be where the heroes of our country lay to rest.
We finally made it to D.C. the day before we had to leave for upstate New York. It was massive! It wasn't all bunched together like Las Vegas, Chicago, Boston and what we already know of New York City. We lost some pounds walking from the Capitol to the Lincoln Memorial and back. It was a site to be seen and I was even able to see the Library of Congress to boot!
(snipers atop the White House...I think they were looking at me!)Thank you D.C.! Goodnight!
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