He Was Not There

C, S and I went to the White House today. It was pretty neat. We had been on the grounds before but had never been inside. D, S's dad, set up this visit through his congress women in Massachusetts. It was meant to be all of us, but because they had to cancel their trip it was just the three of us. We actually drove downtown instead of taking the train. GASP - I know! We are normally way to cheep to pay for parking, ha, ha. But we had an alternative agenda.

So we line up outside the white house, show our ID cards, get checked off on a list, go through a metal detector and walk through the blue room, the red room, the green room, the conference room and the hallways and suddenly we realize we are outside and the tour is over. We were in and out in less than 30 minutes - LOL. Glad we didn't drive all the way from Mass for that, ha, ha. There were tour guides in each room that would answer questions but it was all pretty basic stuff, and their were plaques in each room that said what it was used for and who decorated it. One cool thing was all the paintings of the presidents. None of Obama yet, his were all photographs. Kennedy was cool and so was Regan and oddly I likes Wilson's. Although I do not like his bridge (Totally a DC joke)

Our alternative agenda Ben's Chili Bowl: ending: Pretty awesome. Ben's is a DC icon that we hadn't made it too yet. Barack Obama has been there a few times with our mayor and we always see it on the news but neither were there today <> So we headed over and it was great - although we paid 23 bucks for three hot dogs one thing of fries and three small drinks. Oh well, fun was had by all. On kind of funny thing: we see the place on the left and turn right to find parking on a side street. We were so thrilled with ourselves when we found one right away. So we load the meter with two bucks and get a whopping 48 minutes and head over, just to see a sign inside that says Free Parking in Back. HA - normally we can't find a parking space anywhere in DC let alone a free one.