Legally Blonde's Proceedings

The weather report for Saturday ended up being mostly clear, so we got up and hit the ground running at 8:00 a.m.  We had timed museum tickets for 10:00, so this gave us 2 hours to see the monuments.  We took a taxi to the Lincoln Memorial and went from there.   One of the great parts about getting up early is that you beat the crowds.  While March 2nd is the hight of the tourist season, they were busier later in the day. Lincoln's view Next stop was the Korean War Veterans Memorial Then we walked to one of my top 3 favorite memorials/monuments, the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Next was probably what is my favorite, the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial... I always say this, but I just adore that Fala got his own statue... We walked along the Tidal Basin (some of which was actually under water) around to the final of my 3 favorites... the Thomas Jefferson Memorial. The Lincoln as seen from the World ...

On March 1st, I went to Washington, D.C. with my friend Lisa.  Lisa had a big birthday in March, and we decided to go on a weekend trip to celebrate.  I'm always telling her to travel somewhere she has never been, so she listed out several ideas and we settled on D.C. I planned the trip, and while this was my 5th trip to D.C., it was her first, so there was a need to hit all the highlights, but also do a couple of things I wanted to do along the way.  Originally we thought we were going to arrive about 10:50 a.m., but that got pushed until early afternoon due to me having originally booked us on the 7:50 p.m. flight instead of a 7:50 am. (oops... at least I figured it out well in advance and could change it).  Add a little delay to the flight, and then VIP air traffic that caused a delay in landing, and we were super pressed for time.  We quickly got our bags, grabbed a taxi, and took them to our hotel in Georgetown.  We didn't even check in.  We dro...