{"id":1985,"date":"2014-07-02T21:45:04","date_gmt":"2014-07-03T02:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.craigmashburn.com\/travelblog\/?p=1985"},"modified":"2014-07-02T21:45:05","modified_gmt":"2014-07-03T02:45:05","slug":"day-6-washington-dc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.craigmashburn.com\/travelblog\/?p=1985","title":{"rendered":"Day 6 Washington DC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another early morning this morning. Michael decided to have breakfast in bed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.craigmashburn.com\/travelblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3130.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"IMG_3130\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"IMG_3130\" src=\"https:\/\/www.craigmashburn.com\/travelblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3130_thumb.jpg\" width=\"671\" height=\"504\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Then we rode Metro way out to Huntington where while we were waiting for a connecting bus, another retake\u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.craigmashburn.com\/travelblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3134.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"IMG_3134\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"IMG_3134\" src=\"https:\/\/www.craigmashburn.com\/travelblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3134_thumb.jpg\" width=\"333\" height=\"251\" \/><\/a>&#160; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.craigmashburn.com\/travelblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3138.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"IMG_3138\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"IMG_3138\" src=\"https:\/\/www.craigmashburn.com\/travelblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3138_thumb.jpg\" width=\"331\" height=\"249\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Then we took the bus to Mount Vernon, the home of George Washington.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.craigmashburn.com\/travelblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/img-11451.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"img-1145\" style=\"border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"img-1145\" src=\"https:\/\/www.craigmashburn.com\/travelblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/img-1145_thumb.jpg\" width=\"331\" height=\"249\" \/><\/a>&#160; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.craigmashburn.com\/travelblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3143.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"IMG_3143\" style=\"border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"IMG_3143\" src=\"https:\/\/www.craigmashburn.com\/travelblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3143_thumb.jpg\" width=\"333\" height=\"251\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>George Washington\u2019s tomb\u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.craigmashburn.com\/travelblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3144.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"IMG_3144\" style=\"border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"IMG_3144\" src=\"https:\/\/www.craigmashburn.com\/travelblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3144_thumb.jpg\" width=\"671\" height=\"504\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.craigmashburn.com\/travelblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3146.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"IMG_3146\" style=\"border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"IMG_3146\" src=\"https:\/\/www.craigmashburn.com\/travelblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3146_thumb.jpg\" width=\"668\" height=\"502\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We then returned to the DC area and went to the mall again for lunch. Then we headed to Ford\u2019s Theater\u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.craigmashburn.com\/travelblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3152.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"IMG_3152\" style=\"border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"IMG_3152\" src=\"https:\/\/www.craigmashburn.com\/travelblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3152_thumb.jpg\" width=\"670\" height=\"503\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.craigmashburn.com\/travelblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/img-11841.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"img-1184\" style=\"border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"img-1184\" src=\"https:\/\/www.craigmashburn.com\/travelblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/img-1184_thumb.jpg\" width=\"333\" height=\"251\" \/><\/a>&#160; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.craigmashburn.com\/travelblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3155.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"IMG_3155\" style=\"border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"IMG_3155\" src=\"https:\/\/www.craigmashburn.com\/travelblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3155_thumb.jpg\" width=\"332\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We then took a vote and decided to head back to the hotel for a few hours of R &amp; R. After another dinner from Five Guys, we walked two blocks to the Washington Nationals ballpark.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.craigmashburn.com\/travelblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3156.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"IMG_3156\" style=\"border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"IMG_3156\" src=\"https:\/\/www.craigmashburn.com\/travelblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3156_thumb.jpg\" width=\"670\" height=\"504\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We have been to baseball games all over the country. This was the absolute hottest, humid and miserable weather we have encountered. Vicky and Michael only made it for about 4 innings before they went back to the hotel. Stephen and I walked around the rest of the game.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.craigmashburn.com\/travelblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3157.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"IMG_3157\" style=\"border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"IMG_3157\" src=\"https:\/\/www.craigmashburn.com\/travelblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3157_thumb.jpg\" width=\"672\" height=\"505\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After the game, we went back to our seats and enjoyed the Marine Silent Drill Platoon again!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.craigmashburn.com\/travelblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3160.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"IMG_3160\" style=\"border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"IMG_3160\" src=\"https:\/\/www.craigmashburn.com\/travelblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3160_thumb.jpg\" width=\"671\" height=\"504\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And then fireworks!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.craigmashburn.com\/travelblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3163.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"IMG_3163\" style=\"border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"IMG_3163\" src=\"https:\/\/www.craigmashburn.com\/travelblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3163_thumb.jpg\" width=\"671\" height=\"504\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Only one more day here. Bad news is we have a lot to fit in. The good news is they are all INDOORS.<\/p>\n<p>Until tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another early morning this morning. Michael decided to have breakfast in bed. Then we rode Metro way out to Huntington where while we were waiting for a connecting bus, another retake\u2026 &#160; Then we took the bus to Mount Vernon, the home of George Washington. &#160; George Washington\u2019s tomb\u2026 We then returned to the DC [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2014washingtondc"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.craigmashburn.com\/travelblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1985"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.craigmashburn.com\/travelblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.craigmashburn.com\/travelblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.craigmashburn.com\/travelblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.craigmashburn.com\/travelblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1985"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.craigmashburn.com\/travelblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1986,"href":"https:\/\/www.craigmashburn.com\/travelblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1985\/revisions\/1986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.craigmashburn.com\/travelblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.craigmashburn.com\/travelblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.craigmashburn.com\/travelblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}