Friday September 18: Washington DC - What an Incredible Place!

 Yea!!! It was a 3rd place finish for the relay team of Matt (bike and run) and Becky (swim) in the Olympic length triathlon last weekend here in DC. A bit of rain before the event started at 7 am but otherwise a nice day.

Good job on everyone's part (including Steve and Wendy as the support, carry-all-the-junk-around, team!!

The draw of this even of course is the opportunity to swim in the Potomac River and then run/bike around the monuments surrounding the mall area of DC.

Lots of opportunities for pictures of the monuments.


It's been a quick week and a half (Becky was here only 3 days) but we had time for trolley tours, a private tour of the Pentagon (thanks Matt!!), a segway tour and time to just relax and enjoy the company.

Steve was able to pose by the podium in the Pentagon - one of two places pictures were permitted to be taken.






Matt will be stationed here for two years - I highly suspect we be back for return visits - especially now that Steve and I have become masters of the Metro and can go anywhere with our over-65 card which is good for half price metro tickets :-)


One last weekend here and then off to Yellowstone National Park for a week and a half.

The weather is predicted to be in the 60's with lows in the 20's during the week we are there. What were we thinking????