George Washington Marriott at the Metro

So, we Pricelined our hotel in DC and ended up getting a room right downtown at the George Washington Marriott at the Metro!!  It was TWO blocks from the White House!  It totally surprised us!  For the cheap price we put in, we thought there was no way we'd end up down town.  It was SUPER nice!  We never would have chosen this place on our own! 

They delivered a fruit bowl, pretzels and gourmet Norweigen water bottles to our room right after we arrived.  Yay, for free breakfast!  

They upgraded us to a larger room that had a couch bed for the kids for free. (yay!) 

It's pretty clear this was considered a museum...part of our vacation...the hotel that is. I mean, it's getting it's own blog post!  Hehe!  Not a norm for us, although I could get used to it.  I must admit it was nice to NOT have walls as thin as paper and a bathroom that is falling apart.  However, we did have to pay for parking, internet and breakfast.  Oh well, it saved us on other costs as well and forced us to really vacation!  

This is how a man sleeps when he's got him some pillow! :)  I thought it was cute! 

Day 1...hitting the streets.  

This is just outside our hotel...off to the museums!  Yay!

It was quite rainy on our trip, but not really wet.  Does that make sense?  We pulled out our umbrella maybe once.  And the News channels said it was 88% humidity.  But I don't remember it being horribly humid or sticky....I thought it was petty nice.  Definitely nice compared to Tucson dry heat!

Joey saw these long sidewalks as an open field to run his heart out!  I only had heart failure a few times with the busy street right there.  And yes, many of the streets had these flower boxes...and this is what Abby did at almost all of them... stop, smell the flowers, touch the flowers, talk about the flowers.  ....  :)  That's my girl!