Doing The Tourist Thing!

Week two down and Larry is still enjoying his new position at North Star. I think the big issue is getting used to a schedule of getting up each day and getting out on a regular basis. After five years of no schedule or a very loose schedule, this was a big change. I put in my second week at West Marine, only two days but I'm not used to standing all day for 8 hours on a concrete floor. I walk a couple miles in the morning and evening to get to and from the Metro. In the morning I don't mind the walk but at night my legs don't want to cooperate. Larry and I both are very tired in the evening and are waiting for this syndrome to expire, hopefully the day will soon come.

Tomorrow, Saturday morning we are taking a motorcycle ride to Front Royal near the Blue Ridge Mountains. The weather is supposed to be in the 90's and partly cloudy, a perfect day for a ride. We'll spend the night and return on Sunday. It will be nice to escape the city with the high temps but we do really love being here.

Last weekend, on Saturday we hung out on the boat, read and napped. We both needed the break after a very busy week. On Sunday, we played tourist and took a walk around the Tidal Basin and visited, along with all the other tourists, the monuments. It rained on us a few times but it was a delightful day. We ended the day at Trader Joe's for some much needed food and took the Circulator Bus home. We decided we liked taking the subway better. It is faster and no need to wait for a transfer. We did although use the bus on Friday night when we went into the city on 9th St to Ella's for a pizza (gluten free). That worked out, it was a straight shot, without the need for a transfer. The picture at the top was of the arch at the beginning of Chinatown. Chinatown was only a two block long area not as big as Chinatown in NYC.