DC Day 4

Our hotel was about 4 blocks from the Zoo- awesome. I think you can almost always count on the zoo- or at least I can- to be cool. But maybe someone called ahead for us, because this zoo was so much fun. Almost all of the animals we saw were doing something, not just sleeping- like, an elephant getting a bath, a hippo walking, 2 lionesses playing, a cheetah and zebra playing chase through the fence, Sam posing. Check these pix out:

Funny side note, when the elephant got his bath, he also was weighed on this gigantic scale. After he got off the scale a zoo person got on it to clean or something. They didnt turn the number reading off, so we saw how much she weighed.

After the zoo and lunch (at a yummy sandwich shop) we trecked out to Mount Vernon. When we got off the metro we were a little turned around, and by the time we got to the bus stop we realized we missed the bus by just a few min. Usually not a big deal, but in this case the bus only comes once an hour. We bit it and took a taxi.

I liked seeing Mount Vernon. It has been kept up very well, and the tour people were very informative. I am glad we went, but probably will not go back.

That night we decided to try out a place to eat across the street from our hotel. There was always a line there, so we figured it was good. They had a very unique menu with "fall foods" like squash. It was yummy, that is until about 2 hours later. Something I ate (rosotto squash) hated me HATED ME. Needless to say by morning I had barely slept, and had nothing left in me. But I was way too excited to go to West Virginia to see the Bennetts to worry about it.