Inside the neighbors house

Today Christine and I got to go IN the capitol building. It is the peoples building but they are very super strict on the entering and checking your bags so know when you go visit you can not bring food or water. We lost the end of the very delicious brownies with york pattys in them at the check point, it was sad. Very beautiful and they have a bazillion statues after sending out a thing that each state could send 2. I thought the best is the one from Hawaii of King Kamehameha that weighs something like 5000 lbs so they have to keep it in this corner. The state of Florida sent one of the guy that invented AC love that guy. Dome of the capitol on the outside is different than the dome you see inside because of some crazy construction, I took a pix of the diagram for you. Later we hit the Library of Congress that is very beautiful inside and then got us some passes to go see Congress doing its thing. We sat in the room for a good 30 minutes got to do the pledge of allegiance and I can tell you that when you watch the state of the union the balcony is only like 3-4 rows deep. I was surprised by this I always thought it appeared larger. I am now wondering what David Letterman's balcony is like in person, might have to get up there to see.

Air and Space Museum

Right now the American History museum is under a major renovation due to open late spring 08, till then they have a small display at the Air and Space museum. This museum is the most interest to me because it contains things like THE PUFFY SHIRT, and some friends that were in Star Wars. 250 objects is not a lot, stay tuned for the update after American History re-opens.
A&S is full of artifacts and exhibits it takes a while to get through, but you get to touch a moon rock that has been touched by everyone else so what are you touching them or the rock? I of course spent time reading about how you go to the bathroom in space and have a picture for you of the urinal like device. Christine and I had fun spotting which displays had not gotten the "no longer a planet" treatment and found only a few. Poor Pluto to me it will always be a planet.

Its Blocktoberfest out here

So we were pumped that there was some kind of fest out here, but it was not quite the same as the Fremont variety. Christine, Sara and Mike Mulle came out to RFK stadium parking lot with us to see how it worked. Bands on the bill we were interested in Violent Femmes and Gin Blossoms (I had that CD back in the day so I was interested). This thing was 5 stages, 50 something bands and a huge midway of scary carnival rides and the karneys that run them. VF's played early like 2pm so we were out there in the heat enjoying them. GB were not on till 10pm so we entertained ourselves by drinking some beer, listening to some really not good polka music with a southern twist, and riding some midway rides. Note to readers beer drinking and then riding the scrambler not always a good idea. I did not lose it but you know it was not a good feeling for a few minutes. GB were not very good so we left to go home and make some brownies with York Peppermint Pattys cooked in them, yum, good idea by Christine. Another highlight was we stopped at the party store and bought a thing of 25 glow bracelets and were sporting those when the lights went down. Very fun and you can find your people. Lets hope we remember this for our next night event.

Museum of Natural History 9/23

This stuff is not my bag but I have to see everything right... So here are the highlights to me from the museum. Top of the Washington Monument is made of Aluminum here is the replica of what sits 555 feet above Washington DC. Hope Diamond, this thing is like 42 carats and just big. Poop both regular and fossilized. Good times.

Talk like a Pirate day

Everyone is in the spirit it seems.

Redskins

So there we are at the Redskins season opener with our seats in the sun on a 90 degree day. Now we have redskins visors and a sweat towel that was heavily used during the game as souvenirs of our trip to FedEx Field. It was my first NFL game and I have to say a lot like College except for the whole 90,000 fan thing, that was a crazy amount of people all in one place. End of the day, Redskins won, Mike and I got suntanned, we were assed out from the heat and sun and were very sad to find the Mexican restaurant, by our house and the metro stop, closed so we could get margaritas on the way home. Next time..

Mongolian BBQ???

This weekend we went to a movie near Chinatown and wanted to go to a Mongolian BBQ place we had read about. We left the house (smartly) without looking for the name or location and our walk through Chinatown did not reveal it. Mike called 411 to get the number and called to see where they were located. As the conversation went on Mike told the caller he was near their location and where were they in Chinatown. Apparently we had called the Mongolian Embassy woops. If you want to call them, 202-333-7117 and I looked up the address, 2833 M St NW
Washington, DC 20007 if you want to visit.
Turns out they have a sign that if you are on the left corner of the street reads Chinese Food, but if you walk to the right corner you can see the sign. We saw the sign after making the call and then got to enjoy a laugh and some mighty fine Mongolian BBQ.

**later info on the mongolian bbq, the lady at my dentist office told me the Chinese food upstairs is some of the best in town. She also gave me a few other places that serve dim sum and we are gonna get on checking them out.