President’s Day Weekend - D.C. and Alexandria

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Sunny, warm, and dry was the forecast for the entire weekend and they

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Founding Farmers restaurant - a delicious meal.

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Jen had spicy fried chicken and I had shrimp and grits with andouille sausage.

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Outside the Kennedy Center - comfortably warm in late February.

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Georgetown kind of glows at night.

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Breakfast at our hotel.

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Didn’t have any wine with breakfast, but I’m always a little dazzled by this room when we walk by.

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A view of the lobby at the hotel.

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The site of the Armed Forces Retirement Home and Lincoln’s Cottage

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The visitor’s center

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A water tower, the first dormitory for the retirement home, and the cottage that Lincoln and his familly used.

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The front door of the cottage

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National Cathedral

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Chimes on Sunday afternoon

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View from the 7th floor of the cathedral. If you look very closely, you can see Fedex Field, the Capitol, the Smithsonian Castle, the Washington Monument, the Jefferson Memorial, the Lincoln Memorial, and the Naval Observatory.

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Damage from the 2011 earthquake is still being repaired.

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The Rose Window

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The Marine Corps band assembling for the President’s Day Parade in Alexandria

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The Marine Corps band performing before the parade

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Gathering crowds

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The Town Crier announcing the parade

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Alexandria Sheriff Department

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Marine Corps Band from Quantico

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A reminder of what we should be expecting from our leaders

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I wish I could have seen these guys getting out of these cars at the end of the parade.

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These guys exhorted the crowd to come back in a couple of weeks and do the same thing “with beer”.

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A great dinner at The Warehouse

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A final look down King Street at the Potomac


© Russ Milam 2017