So I forget to say what we did for the President’s Day holiday. Actually, it was only a holiday for me; Monica had to work. 🙁
On a side note, the official name is for the holiday is Washington’s Birthday, not President’s Day. If you don’t believe me, read this.
We had plans to do something historical like go to the Manassas battlefield, but we decided sleeping was so much fun that we got up too late. So what to do then? Well, I had the bright idea to do something that we used to do quite frequently. Go into DC and hang out.
It seems everyone else on the entire earth had this same idea.
We drove around forever looking for a parking spot by the museums, but it wasn’t meant to be. So after deciding to just call it a day and head home, a parking spot appears right as Constitution Ave. is ending (down by the Lincoln Memorial).
We had a nice, relaxing time walking round the tidal basin and visiting the Thomas Jefferson memorial, which I think is my favorite of all the memorials in DC. The only downer was all of the dead fish that were floating in the half-frozen tidal basin – very spooky. Aside from that, it was a beautiful day, and we even found a memorial that I had never seen before; it was a neglected World War I memorial to the soldiers from the District of Columbia.
On the actual Washington’s Birthday holiday, I spent most of the day filing our taxes and fiddling with the flaky website on which I filed them. I’m so glad to get those completed, and we’re actually getting a refund. So a Washington’s Birthday well spent.