I'm in the midst of planning our trip to Washington D.C. We leave here on the night of the 16th. I like to do a good bit of pre-planning when I go on trips. I find it saves the family a lot of bumbling about, and often quite a good deal of frustration and money.
Things that I'll either know off my head, or have written down on the master plan in my pocket are; the open hours and Metro stops of the places we plan to visit, What there is to do with a teenager on Friday and Saturday night, and what things we may have wished to visit will be closed or not worth the trouble. In Washington D.C. it is also handy to know what things are free, so if we end up on the National Mall with 45 minutes to spare I'll know what's available.
Doing this also helps me know what to pack. Especially since I'm going to try to get everything in a carry-on bag. It should be pretty easy since I know all the packing tricks - but knowing that there isn't anything playing at The Kennedy Center in the evening I want to see means I can leave the posh, dressy stuff at home.
This trip has been made less stressful to plan because we will have another chance to visit the city next summer, so packing it in won't be the major goal. I'm really looking forward to visiting the National Gallery again, along with the Phillips Collection (home of Renoir's Luncheon of the Boating Party), The National Portrait Gallery, and the National Cathedral - none of which we saw on our last visit in 2005. Harry has requested the Air and Space Museum, and returning to the Natural History Museum - both worthy of extended visits. We've also applied for VIP tour passes for the Capitol and White House, but I've been told not to expect much from either tour. It seems that White House tours are self-guided, and very limited in scope (plus the security is so tight almost nothing is allowed inside. The Capitol tours are mostly lead by unlucky jr. staffers that may know almost nothing about the edifice or it's contents.
Hannah and I have tickets to a comedy show called Capitol Steps on Friday evening. I'm still looking for one or two other smashing activities to break up the museum hopping. ~M.E.
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Think about the air-and-space annex out at dulles as well. :D
FYI: I believe the Capitol Steps isn't just a comedy but a comedy troupe that has been around for years doing political comedy skewering Dems and Pubs for years. Or have they taken the comedy of the troupe and turned it into a play?
To Annon: That's a great idea if we were flying in and out of Dulles, but this time our tickets are for Ronald Regan Int'l. The commute time is too great for just the Annex - although I'd love to go out there.
Vicki: Capitol Steps is a comedy troop, and each week part of the show changes(and updates) so that about every 6 weeks it is totally different. I hear that for some reason, right now they have an awful lot of usable material :)
Marci if not this time next time try the annex @ Dulles I just had a friend that came back from there this summer and said it was phenomenal. I also heard the Holocaust Museum & NRA Museums are worth the trip.
WAS
hey Walt - We've put off the Holocaust Muesum until next summer. We're studying American History but are just now at the turn of the 20th century. By next time we will have been through WWII and it will make more sense. I think the NRA museum is a niche that appeals to it's members, and may not be my cup o' tea. Just like I'd never think of dragging you - or Harry - to all of the art museums I'd like to see. I have found a Georgetown walking tour in the evening that looks like a good deal of fun, though. You get to see great architecture, and hear stories of ghosts and scandles! I can hardly wait.
I did a simular tour of Georgetown while in DC during one of the high school government trips in the 80's if memory serves it was pretty neat.
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