On Christmas day we made our traditional trip down to the Mall to view the trees and have a drink at Sofitel.
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El Tamarindo
Strange weather today – the roads were wet but it wasn’t raining.
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It snowed!
It was just a couple of inches, mostly melted now. Last winter around now we had our first major storm, which left us with snow for at least a couple of weeks.
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The insane Rally to Restore Sanity
We weren’t sure about going down to the Mall for the rally, but after spending about an hour asking each other “Are you sure you want to go?” we decided to at least see how close we could get before succumbing to agoraphobia. We caught the Metro at Grosvenor/Strathmore, where the trains were already pretty full. By the time we made it anywhere near the Mall our Metro car was completely packed – it was so packed we weren’t sure how we’d get off the car, but at Metro Center we joined a scrum headed for the doors and made it out.
From Metro Center we walked over to 7th then down towards the Mall. The crowd got thicker as we got closer, with a knot around the funky dragon thing near the National Archives building. After a bathroom stop at the National Gallery of Art at least one of us was about done, so we headed over to Cafe Du Parc just in time to restore sanity and people watch.
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The Statue of Liberty and stuff
We had a bunch of friends in town and failed to lose any of them while touring DC, so we decided to try New York. Fortunately, we didn’t lose anyone there, but we did see the Statue of Liberty.
The security screening before boarding the boat to Liberty Island causes a huge line – the whole boarding process probably took a half hour, even though we had reserved tickets. I felt pretty sorry for the folks with non-reserved tickets.
The best view of the statue was from the boat as we passed in front of it on our way to the dock on the island and on the way back to Battery Park via Ellis Island.
Were they really having a problem with people on the boat feeding the birds?
This ShackBurger from the Shake Shack was delicious, if a bit salty. Oddly, they served Fiji bottled water there – seems odd in the city with the best tap water in the country.