Day out

Despite being just 15 minutes or so from downtown DC, it's sort of sad how rare it is that we venture in to take advantage of the offerings there (actually, it's mostly a function of the hassles of dealing with parking, but it's still sort of pathetic). Yesterday morning when we were trying to decide what to do, I suggested going downtown because the National Gallery of Art has an Edward Hopper exhibit I'd been wanting to see that closes soon. After finally finding parking, we got into the museum to discover...total mayhem. Evidently half of the metro DC area woke up and had the same idea we did. Anyway, we quickly realized there was no way in the world we were going to make it through the crowds with a stroller, so Gretchen and Baby waited while I went through...it was interesting, at least on those rare occasions when I could actually see a painting through the 50 people already standing around it.



From there, we walked over to the neighboring sculpture garden to watch the ice skating. Baby is still much too young to skate--and her Southern California-native daddy is in no position to teach her anyway (that will be a job for Wisconsin-native mommy someday)--but she still had fun watching the crowds enjoy the sunny winter day.



NOTE TO SELVES: We really should get out and enjoy our nation's capital city more often.