Mini-Vacation: Washington, D.C.

Quinn and I headed down to Washington, D.C. last Thursday evening. Milton Hershey School is on vacation until Monday, so we decided to take advantage of the time off and go to one of the most frequented tourist cities in the entire United States on Good Friday with everyone else within a four hour driving radius. Packed house in D.C. on Friday, but we enjoyed ourselves nonetheless. 

We took the Metro in from Ballston (in Northern Virginia) and went directly to the Holocaust Museum to get our tickets. The line wrapped around the building at 10am! We received tickets for 1:45, so we headed to the Museum of Natural History to see the soil exhibit in the meantime. 

We spent about 2 hours wandering through the Holocaust Museum. Intense. Very intense. Because of the crowd, we had to bypass the first section, so we definitely want to go back during the middle of the week (not on a busy holiday weekend). It’s one of those places you want to be in alone; being bustled about isn’t really the ideal setting for taking in the history of an event of that magnitude. 

After the sobering experience, we needed our friend Kelly Thomas (soon to be Dr. Kelly Thomas) to cheer us up. Solution? Lots of Guitar Hero and some WiiFit Olympics. Perfect cure. She generously hosted us for the weekend, and we returned the favor with groceries and pizza and BIG BUNS!