I am going to document each day of the trip that Chantel, Teresa and I are on to Washington DC. We got up and going at 3:00 AM!!! Got showered and finished packing. We had already dropped of Abby and Madalyn at my brother Carl's house last night, so they were done. We woke Chelsea up to say goodbye to her. We got going in the car to catch our 6:00 flight. We were running late! We parked in the Long-Term lot and got onto the shuttle. I wanted to drive the shuttle myself (the dude was going pretty slow). We ran up to check in our baggage but the lady told us it was too late! By 5 minutes. So we hoofed it upstairs and had to dump all of our toiletries because shaving cream, vaseline, hairspray, and mousse could be used to blow a huge hole in the fuselage. But my wife's scissors managed to make it through with no problem. We ran to our gate, they checked our baggage, and we sat down just in time to take off. The flight was rather boring. The movie was The Spiderwick Chronicles. I didn't really watch the first half, but boredom got the beast of me and I watched the 2nd half.
We landed in Atlanta at 11:30 and had an hour to wait for our connecting flight to Baltimore. They boarded the plane and we were off again. There was a school group from Bear River, UT that were on the continuing flight with us, sitting right behind us again. I couldn't sleep, again, on the plane. Man, those seats! Who designed them? Obviously they aren't normal shaped- whose head leans so far forward when you try to recline? Ugh. So, we landed in Baltimore, disembarked, and waited for our bags, then waited even longer to catch the shuttle to the train. We bought tickets for the MARC to Union Station. While we were waiting a huge lightning storm came blowing in. It rained real hard for quite a while. We were noting the high humidity with a couple that were waiting with us. Turns out they are from Farmington, UT.
Well, we got into Union Station at 4:30-ish and wow it was busy! The architecture and sculptures are pretty cool. We bought tickets on the Metro and got off at our stop. After taking the long way around the IRS building, we got to our hotel, The Hotel Harrington. We came up to our room. Definitely not too impressive.
We asked at the front desk where a good sandwich shop was and they pointed us to Pottbelly's. We walked a couple blocks to the shop and went in. Chantel and I both ordered a Wreck, and Teresa got a ham. We also got a, Oreo Shake. The sandwiches were delicious!!! Plus, we were starving, having only eaten cookies and cheese & crackers on the airplane.
We walked to CVS to replenish our toiletries that we had to chuck. And we got some Apple Jacks! They were on sale. When we were starting back, another lightning storm came in. We ducked into the doorway of a building to wait it out. A lightning bolt hit right by us. You could hear the crackle/buzz then a gigantic KA-BOOM! There was a young lady standing by us who had run under the doorway, too. She got pretty scared from that one. So after 15-20 minutes of some of the heaviest rain I've ever seen, we took off and came back to the hotel. We have been too wasted to go back out. Teresa and I just went outside, but it is still raining, so here we are. Hopefully we will be alright tomorrow, both with the weather and with feeling not so gooey.
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