To the email chat group, from Judy Marshall Kennedy, April 18, 2018:
Just back from an awesome five day trip to Washington DC, the highlight of which was a long, leisurely dinner with Liz (Hottel) and Bryan Barrett outdoors at Floriana’s Italian restaurant just off Dupont Circle! Such a good time with those two that Dan and I were prompted to have dinner the next night at a British pub called Elephant & Castle so we could raise a pint to honor Bryan’s heritage and good taste in women (uncommon of course) and restaurants.
Also saw our fill of fabulous museums and learned that my usual two hour tolerance threshhold for most could be stretched remarkably (despite bad feet, as all of you know from previous emails on this subject) when they were as interesting as these, i.e. Air/Space, Holocaust, African-American. Five hours for us in one per day on average — we just couldn’t tear ourselves away. A concert and dinner at the Kennedy Center, a tour and show (The Wiz) at Ford’s Theatre, and unfortunately late day too quick visits to The Spy and the American Indian museums, as well as a viewing of the Cherry Blossoms rounded out the trip and left us satiated and very, very happy.
Thank you all for your suggestions and help which as you can see we followed; our Chat group is remarkable for its support and reach,
Judy K
PS A tip in case any of you are planning a trip to Washington or know someone who is. The most popular museums, in particular the African-American which is spectacular and rightly very popular, have mandatory “timed entry” and are pretty much sold out each day becaue of their advance sale programs. BUT, it turns out that active military personnel, veterans and their dependents, policemen and firefighters and EMTs, and maybe a few others can just walk in at any time at no charge. Once we found this out (fortunately, on almost our first day there), we sailed right in ahead of the crowds. Talk about a benefit!
