{"id":1104,"date":"2012-09-09T17:46:57","date_gmt":"2012-09-09T22:46:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.maryjoandwill.com\/?p=1104"},"modified":"2012-09-09T18:36:45","modified_gmt":"2012-09-09T23:36:45","slug":"washington-d-c-day-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maryjoandwill.com\/?p=1104","title":{"rendered":"Washington D.C. – Day 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

Note: Some of the photos are gigantic and stretchy.\u00a0 We’re fixing it.<\/p>\n

We went to Washington D.C. last weekend to visit Will’s friend Ben and his wife, Jaci.\u00a0 We took a flight out of Seattle late in the evening and we got to D.C. in the morning.\u00a0 It’s three hours later there so the morning is sooner?\u00a0 We tried to sleep on the plane, but you know how that goes.<\/p>\n

We had scheduled a White House visit right away that morning, so Ben and Jaci picked us up and we headed straight for the White House from the airport.\u00a0 Luckily, they had prepared tasty egg and cheese sandwiches and coffee for us.\u00a0 We were feeling good.\u00a0 The White House visit was pretty short; you don’t get to see very much of it.\u00a0 There are maybe only six or seven rooms that are open to the public.\u00a0 But it was free, so that’s alright.\u00a0 They had a bunch of security, including a bomb sniffing dog behind a screen I think and a metal detector.\u00a0 You also have to contact one of your congressmen to sign you up for it in advance.\u00a0 So thanks Jim McDermott for getting us into the White House.<\/p>\n

One of their in-laws, Josie, met us there too.\u00a0 She had never been to the White House before.\u00a0 From left to right we are Ben’s wife Jaci (like Jackie), Ben, Josie, and me.\u00a0 Will is behind the camera.<\/p>\n

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Speaking of cameras, for some reason we left our camera camera at the house and just used the cameras on our phones all weekend.\u00a0 The phone cameras are much more motion sensitive so some of our pictures came out a bit blurry.<\/p>\n

It was a little while ago and I was kind of jet-lagged so I might get the order of events mixed up, but I think Josie left right after the White House.\u00a0 Then Will, Jaci, and I went to Starbucks and got something to drink while we waited for Ben to get his flu shot.\u00a0 After that, we went to a museum where they had a small exhibit about video games as well as a bunch of art and sculpture.<\/p>\n

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Will finds this painting disturbing:<\/p>\n

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Will took one other picture with Ben because he resembled a guy in one of the paintings.\u00a0 What Will didn’t notice is that the other painting in the background was a nude.\u00a0 You can see that picture if you click here, perverts<\/a>.\u00a0 There was also a gift store.\u00a0 Here are the boys trying on the flight goggles.<\/p>\n

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After the museum, we had dim sum, which is a kind of Asian food that comes in small bite-sized portions that you share with your dinner companions.\u00a0 It was mostly dumpling type stuff or doughy pockets filled with meat, vegetables, or seafood.\u00a0 It was pretty good; I was surprised by how full I ended up.<\/p>\n

I was amazed that we were still awake.\u00a0 Later that evening, we had pizza and watched The Daily Show and The Colbert Report.\u00a0 Will actually fell asleep before me, which is a miracle.\u00a0 I’m usually the sleepy one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Note: Some of the photos are gigantic and stretchy.\u00a0 We’re fixing it. We went to Washington D.C. last weekend to visit Will’s friend Ben and his wife, Jaci.\u00a0 We took a flight out of Seattle late in the evening and we got to D.C. in the morning.\u00a0 It’s three hours later there so the morning […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maryjoandwill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1104"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maryjoandwill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maryjoandwill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maryjoandwill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maryjoandwill.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1104"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.maryjoandwill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1118,"href":"https:\/\/www.maryjoandwill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1104\/revisions\/1118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maryjoandwill.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maryjoandwill.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maryjoandwill.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}