A Long Weekend in Washington D.C., Washington D.C., USA

A few long weekends in our Nation’s capital is all it takes to see the best sites of Washington D.C. I came to D.C. as a teenager as part of a field trip for our middle school. We saw Mt. Vernon, colonial Williamsburg, the capitol building, the Washington Monument, the Smithsonian, and a few of the memorials. While it was over 30 years ago, some sites have remained the same and others have expanded. As such, I touched on some newer ones.

Suman and I started our weekend flying into Dulles on Thursday morning as the flight options were a bit cheaper on the Easter holiday weekend which also included our birthdays. We spent the night with her family in McLean before we came into the city the following day. We were fortunate that we could check into the Westin Georgetown early!

While our top floor room didn’t have any amazing views at eight stories high, we enjoyed a complimentary bottle of wine for our birthdays. I had jokingly asked for an upgrade for our birthdays, and while they couldn’t accommodate us, Yarnell was quick to offer us wine to celebrate.

We spent the afternoon wandering around Georgetown. As we passed by a variety of brick buildings featuring store fronts and restaurants, we stumbled upon the Old Stone House. Dating from 1765, Old Stone House is the oldest structure on its original foundation in the Nation’s capital! A myth saved the home from destruction like other structures of the era. It was thought that George Washington and L’Enfant, who helped design the capital met here, but that is not the case. We took a few minutes to check out the four rooms which housed a variety of antiques. ...... (follow the instructions below for accessing the rest of this article).