DC through my lens

Just so we're clear, Adam's a pretty decent photographer. His experience as an artist (incredibly talented painter!) serve him well in the photographic medium. But I took the better equipment home with me. ;) Though he tried hard to talk me into leaving it! Love that boy, but I have plans for that camera this weekend! As previously mentioned, while the guys were at the rally, I hooked up with some of my photographer friends in Georgetown. After a tasty and fun lunch at Filomena, we headed out to play with our cameras a bit.

Kim let me try out her 35mm L lens. (Canon shooters will appreciate the deliciousness of this!)


Then Michele suggested I check out her 20mm wide angle lens - WHOA! Everything fits in the frame!


Including my toes!


After hanging with them until about 6pm, I jumped back the metro to meet up with the guys. We grabbed a quick Qdoba dinner and headed out to tour the monuments at night. We took the scenic route which is how the poor dad ended up with blisters nearly the size of my palm! I was beat from walking around Georgetown, but got some cool shots that night.

Capitol Building


Washington Monument from the side we approached (opposite Lincoln)


Washington Monument + Vietnam War Memorial


There are lots more on my computer, but this is it so far! Enjoy!

Day 8 - DC Memorials After Dark

Last night we went on an epic walk around DC. We saw walked down Pennsylvania Ave up to the Capitol building and then back down to the Lincoln Memorial and up to GWU to catch the metro. Here's some of the pictures I got. I'm sure Rebecca will post some in the near future in an attempt to over do me with her photographic skills but at least I'm first. What!

Washington Monument from the Vietnam Wall

Lincoln Memorial through the World War II Memorial

Fountains at the World War II Memorial

Capitol Building

There are also more pics on my flickr account if you're interested. As for now it's already noon and we haven't left the hotel room. It's time to head out to Arlington, see the rest of the memorials we missed yesterday (Jefferson, FDR, etc), and hit up a couple other spots (Library of Congress, Supreme Court).

Couple more picture, showing love for the home state:

Day 8 (RJS) - I have the greatest friends ever. Seriously.

Several years now, I joined a chat board with a bunch of girls into photography. Through this board I have met some of the most amazing, talented, generous, wonderful women out there. Today I got to meet 4 of them in person. :D My friends, Michele, Kim, Kelly & Amy, came to spend the day with me while the guys went to the rally. We met up in Georgetown (it's OLD!) and had lunch, cruised around, sat and chatted in a mall, walked around some more. It was so, so fun!

I can't even really explain what it's like... I've known most of these girls for over 3 years now and we chat (fb, the board, text, etc) on a pretty regularly basis. I might even wager I talk to Kim online as much as I do Adam these days! I am so, so blessed. While my feet and legs are TIRED and SORE from walking around (Georgetown for 2-3 hours and then around the monuments for 3-4 hours) my heart is so full and happy. Yeah, I'm a little cheesy - deal! ;)

If I can find an outlet at BWI and I have time to sit for a bit, I'll try to get some shots up. We really had the bestest time. Now I just need to talk my sweet husband into 4-5 day adventures in Chicago, Philly, Jersey & DC. :D

Here is a shot of me with the gals! We had a random passerby shoot it real quick. It turned out pretty good!

Day 8 - Washington DC or "How much more out of place can I be?"

I'm going to do a quick post about the rally. Nothing too in depth, just some pictures.

There were people everywhere:

Pretty much as far as you could see:

At times it was a little difficult to keep track of dad, but I always found him:

This guy apparently wasn't aware that when it comes to wolves with moon t-shirts, it's three wolf moon!:

Everyone was a little flag happy too:

Okay one more and then I'll leave it up to Dad to tell the whole story:

Day 7 - Seattle International Airport or "Airport Idling"

So my part in this journey is about to take off. Literally. I'm waiting for my flight to leave Sea-Tac. It's a bit strange. This is the first red eye flight I've ever taken that is going to be filled to capacity, or so they say.I think I have to believe them because the gate is littered with people. Hopefully I can still get some sleep on the plane, but I'm beginning to realize that might not happen, which could lead to a very interesting day tomorrow. I started this morning at 6:30 so I'm already starting to fade a little.

I should also point out that I had no problems at all getting through security. The brother-in-law was convinced I'd get a full strip search; single guy flying one way to DC without any luggage, I guess it could happen. But it didn't. Looks like we're starting to board. We'll see if they have free wifi in Baltimore or on the train to DC. If not it might be tomorrow night before my text post. However keep an eye on the twitter feed as I'll be posted pics of the rally there until I can do a proper post.

Day 7 - Philadelphia, PA to Washington DC

We woke up in Philly on Friday morning and eventually got ourselves out of the hotel. It took us a couple of tries, but we got tickets to see Independence Hall at 12:30pm. What an incredible place! It's building that's stood for centuries. It's probably the oldest building I've ever been in. So cool.

First room on the tour, pretty sure it was a courtroom.

Detail on the interior of the first room

LOVED this roman shade in the second room!

One of the rooms upstairs.

Guns! (also upstairs)

Loved this piano!

Exterior

Shot I grabbed from the freeway as we were leaving Philly

We had to go through...

To get to...

After checking into our hotel in MD, Dad and I jumped on the metro (went the wrong way one stop) and headed into the city to see what was going on down at the mall.

We hopped off the subway at Farragut North and walked down to the mall. We came in about here (WWII Memorial) -

The Lincoln Memorial was CRAWLING with people!

We had to get closer...

Caught this shot of the Washington Monument from the steps of Lincoln...

More to come from our other days in the city!

Silk City Diner

Silk City Diner Bar & Lounge 
435 Spring Garden Street
Philadelphia, PA 19123


We landed in Philadelphia Thursday night tired and without a plan for dinner.Rebecca hopped on to her I Phone and looked up the nearest Triple 'D' location and off we went. Coming off the White Palace Grill experience I wasn't feeling too excited about the possibilities. Boy was I pleasantly surprised. We both ordered the Meatloaf and we both left very happy. It was about the size of my fist and wrapped in bacon (that might be the way I want to be buried). Then it was covered in a mushroom gravy sauce that would make Adam's flip flops taste good. All that rested on mashed potatoes with peas filling out the plate. Did I mention I loved it!!! I must return to Philly yo try their other entree's (hear that Sharon, were going to Philly),but not in the summer.