Washington

We did the tourist thing in Washington today. After driving to Greenbelt we got on the Green Line towards central DC, changing at Fort Totten to end up at Union Station. The station itself is quite impressive, in the style I think of as neo classical (I could be completely wrong, of course) and hasn't been totally spoiled by having a shopping centre built in it. After a brief tour round a book shop (no purchases as yet) we set off to see the sights.

Unfortunately it started raining so we decided a museum might be a bit more comfortable than a wander around the monuments, so we went into the National Museum of Natural History where we had an enjoyable time looking at dinosaur skeletons before going into the basement cafeteria for lunch. After lunch it had stopped raining so we walked up to look at the White House, where we got shouted at by a police woman for daring to attempt to cross the (completely deserted) road at a place where there wasn't an officially sanctioned crossing. It started raining again then so we headed in the direction we hoped would lead us to the nearest Metro station, but we passed a very large Borders first so went in there. This time I did make a purchase - Playing the Offensive Line by former Giant's offensive lineman Karl Nelson and a Linux Journal. We also got directions to the Metro station and, a few minutes later, were on our way back home. The evening was taken up with Monday Night Football, watching the Vikings narrowly defeat the fast sinking Packers. I also read some of my new football book and was gratified to discover that Karl Nelson agreed with everything I'd been telling my linemen to do for years