A "Take It Easy" Day

Saturday, July 26th

After yesterday's long hot day of walking, we decided to take it easy today. We stayed around the campground, and the kids and I swam at the pool for the bulk of the day.

We had made arrangements to get together with some of Bob's online gaming friends, Don "Edd", his wife Kathy, and her son Dan, who live in the area, so we met up with them tonight for dinner. They live on the Virginia side of DC, near Dulles airport. Since we had wanted to see some of the DC sights at night, we drove to their area, and ate and chatted at Joe's Crabshack. Now, nobody in our family is much of a fish-eater, but this was Kathy's choice. On the way, I mentioned I hoped they served chicken or something, since I didn't care for fish. Morgan likes crablegs, and I figured we'd find something Aidan and Bob liked. As it turns out, I was the only gutsy one of the family - everybody else wimped out! I tried the Tilapia and actually liked it! Bob had steak, Aidan ate pizza, and Morgan chose a Cobb salad. We ended up eating and chatting for over two hours. We took a couple of pictures, but since it's after 1 a.m. right now, I'll post those tomorrow!

After saying goodbye to the Whitakers, we headed into the city to see if we could get some night pictures of the monuments while driving. Well, that didn't turn out so well. There's so much traffic on a Saturday night that you can't slow down enough to get a good picture. Bless his heart, Bob took us around the White House three times, but it just didn't work. So we decided to come back tomorrow evening and walk around a little.