After coffee at our motel in Baltimore, we headed the short distance to neighboring Washington D.C. We found a motel for the night and headed into the city to see the World War II Memorial, which both of us wanted to see. We are including several pictures of this long overdue memorial. We thought it was very well done and enjoyed our visit, even though it was a very cold day. We then walked to the Smithsonian Museum and visited the Air and Space building. I never get tired of seeing the Wright Brother's plane or The Spirit of St. Louis.
Then we decided on lunch at The Old Ebbitt Grill. Both of us love visiting this grill and ordered an appetizer of pecan-raisin bread, apple-pear chutney, and four different kinds of American cheeses. We followed this with the special, an 8oz filet on a bed of garlic enhanced fresh spinach, accompanied by mashed potatoes. Absolutely wonderful! We were too full for dessert but thoroughly enjoyed visiting with our server Keera, a delightful local young lady who made our stay very enjoyable. She was attentive but not bothersome and helped us locate a nearby store so that I could replace my gloves, since I had left one glove in CT.
Nearby we located the subway and took it back to our motel with some shopping at the huge Pentagon City Mall at our destination stop on the subway. We arrived home tired but happy to have been able to revisit our country's Capital and its many beautiful buildings and monuments.
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