One purpose of this blog is to be able to journal my travels this summer. My husband and I are going on a cruise of the western Mediterranean - round trip from Barcelona, with one stop in France, 3 in Italy and one in Tunisia. It'll be a busy week. I'm seriously psyched to go.
Anyway, this past weekend was Independence Day (a/k/a "the 4th of July"). We went downtown to the Mall in DC as we usually do. Per tradition, it was ridiculously hot. Breaking with tradition, there was not one single cloud in the sky and zero threat of thunderstorms. Very strange - most years we scramble to leave the Folk Life Festival to get inside a museum and out of the rain.
From year to year we never seem to remember what we do to find a restaurant for dinner - this year, we wandered up 12th street and found nothing. We ended up at "Cosi", similar to Panera's. On the way back down to the mall, we came down 15th street and saw a whole bunch of interesting places. Next year, we're going to remember to wander up 15th street, instead of 12th street.
We found our spot on the Mall in front of the Washington Monument - last year we had a problem with the people in front of us who stood for the duration of the fireworks, which was really annoying. This year better luck - the people in front of us were sitting down, but the guys behind us were busy trying to out-shout each other and demonstrate their altered state of consciousness. Or lack of intelligence, it was really hard to tell.
The fireworks themselves were awesome, as always. I'm going to try to figure out how to post a video.
Anyway, that's it for now. I will get the hang of this eventually.
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