We didn't want to deal with DC on the 4th itself, so we went right after. We found a good deal at a pod type hotel for weekend nights. Since it was well before check in when we arrived, we parked at garage a block away from the hotel, leaving our luggage inside it for now. We started walking down to the nearest Metro station, navigated the ticket machines, and popped out at L'Enfant Plaza. It was so hot we picked up an Uber across from the Spy Museum and took it over to the Jefferson Memorial.
Somehow it continued to get even more hot and humid. After only about 30-40 minutes outside in the sun we were trashed. We made new plans to spend the rest of the day in air conditioning, and headed over to American Indian museum, which wasn't even here the last time we were.
The museum was very interesting, and much more comprehensive than I had imagined. When they say American, they mean all of the Americas, north or south, and anything in between. They chased us out at closing and we made our way back to the parking garage, picked up our luggage, and dragged it a block to our pod hotel. Every square inch of that room, both high and low, were accounted for and had some use, but after a sailboat it seemed big enough. Think of a cruise ship cabin and you'd be close. The pic below is from our room. We were right on the edge of Chinatown.
Dinner time was interrupted by some pouring rain. The restaurant next door somehow now seemed much more appealing than it had on our way in, and actually it was pretty good. The restaurant was another variation of the nicer restaurant in an expensive area that can't afford waitstaff, so pretty good food but with fast food type lines and self service.
The next day we packed up, dropped our bags in the car in the garage, and walked over to Lincoln's Waffle Shop for breakfast, right across from Ford's Theater, and adjoining the house across the street where Lincoln died. After breakfast it was a fairly short walk to the Smithsonian Natural History Museum.
As usual, I went through things a little faster than Heather, so I had plenty of time for refreshment and phone recharging breaks. Something you need to do at least every decade or so.
That evening we had dinner at a little asian place called Reren near the garage, then drove on back to the boat.
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