To Be Determined

Well, we’ve been in DC for a couple weeks already. The weather has cooperated, at least on the weekends (when it matters and we’re happy to say that we’ve had a wonderful time exploring the area and learning long-forgotten or unknown historical information.  Some museums stay open until 7:30 p.m. so after work, we walk/run (usually commencing with Heather pulling Radek out the door like a kid skipping off to Disneyland) to the open museums.  The Natural History museum is just amazing…. so far we’ve been there three times after work and we are still on the ground floor! The hour or so we get to spend there goes much too quickly.

This past weekend, we kept quite busy. The EU embassies had open houses to share their culture and promote tourism to their country. We heard that 50,000 people attended last year and I’m not surprised. We had to wait 45 minutes to get through the door at the Greek embassy. The line at the Irish embassy was even longer so (sorry to admit it) we didn’t wait. We also didn’t make our way past the UK embassy but I’m sure they were quite busy. The Polish embassy, however, was by far the best host They had sausages, pierogi, and Zywiec beer that they were serving as well as providing impressive tourism informational magazines. We found many things we haven’t yet seen in Poland and look forward to seeing more sites in the future.

We also met up with Kieran and Johanna, friends of ours from Dublin who are now in the area. It was wonderful to see them! We enjoyed a Thai dinner and drinks at a swanky bar.

We spent some time visiting Arlington National Cemetery as well as traveling a few hours to explore Jamestown, Yorktown and  Wilmington, VA. Briefly, Jamestown is the first permanent settlement in the US (in 1607). Yorktown was the site of a battle in the Revolutionary War, and Wilmington was the capital of Virginia.

This coming week, Heather’s sister is coming to visit for a few days and we’re SO excited to have her company!