Washington D.C.
DC has been on our bucket list since 2020 before COVID and we finally went this past week.
It was cold and raining most of the time we were there. But we did get a chance to go to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History & Culture. We were not ready for the emotional toll it took on us. I can’t really say too much else about it.
On a brighter note we went to the National Air and Space Museum the next day. I was equally surprised about how captivating the history of flight was. I guess I shouldn’t have been surprised as often as we fly.
As usual, we found a spot to listen to live music Madam’s Organ. The music was excellent, the drinks were cheap and the food was so good we went twice.
On the last day we were in DC, we did a three hour tour around DC where we had the opportunity to get off and walk around on the only day the weather was decent.
We stayed at the Hyatt Place Washington DC/Downtown thinking it was closer to where the monuments and museum were. That was a mistake. Not that it mattered. The weather was so bad, we weren’t going to do much walking around anyway.
Luckily, overall, the trip wasn’t expensive. I used our last batch of Hyatt points from our year of “nomadding” to book the room and JetBlue points I transferred from Amex for the flights.
We are already planning a do over next summer. We are planning to stay at the Hyatt Place Washington DC/National Mall which as its name implies is within walking distance of the National Mall where most of the museums are located.