Fireworks and fuzzy Washington Monument

July 3 -5, 2010 -- crowds, heat, and fireworks

July 25th 2010
Saturday, July 3rd: Had breakfast in room then headed out to Farragut North and Metro Center to see about getting a Metro senior pass, but the Sales office was closed until Tuesday. Just got farecards for planned trips for this day. Needed to change trains anyway to go to the Int’l Spy Museum. It’s kind of spendy and we weren’t overly impressed with it. Had a longish wait to go up in ... read more

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Britain's American colonies broke with the mother country in 1776 and were recognized as the new nation of the United States of America following the Treaty of Paris in 1783. During the 19th and 20th centuries, 37 new states were added to the origina... ... read more

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My first blog is at the beginning -- a month-long trip to Europe, about two weeks in 6-7 countries on the continent, and two more in England/Scotland. Wasn't able to add photos as I was going along (and have been dreadfully slow about going back and adding them in. Then Grand Cayman, and some trips to Florida. In my blogs, DD refers to my daughter, and DGS refers to my grandson (those are conventions used on disney forums -- the first D is "dear"). I don't know what the capacity is here for pages, but I couldn't figure out how to start a completely new separate blog, without registe... full info

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