never been to this one. Need to add it to my list for the next time we are in DC.
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Delicious for dinner, too! We couldnât get a same evening reservation. DH said we would show up at opening and see what happens! (Heâs not even a Liner!) It worked! We were seated in minutes and dinner was delicious. It was so good, we got dinner reservations for Sunday. Since they get food delivered during the weekdays, they were out of a few menu options by Sunday dinner.
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Ours too!
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You are troopers to pack it âallâ in a long weekend!
We did the memorials during the day but I love the way they look at night in your pictures.
We biked all the memorials in the area, including Jefferson, MLK and FDR, which are far! Your 30,000+ steps prove it! What I remember most vividly was the lack of food between Jefferson and FDR. The gift shop didnât even have snacks! DD fell off her bike and scrapped her knee as we got back to the National Mall because she was low on blood sugar and we couldnât get anything to eat. 
After that incident, she always carries snacks with her. We were in a touristy city! I didnât think food would be so scarce!
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I am loving this TR! DC is very high on my vacation list at the moment! Making a note to see the monuments at night as well as day because they change so much.
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I think community grief is quite contagious. You can sometimes hold yourself together and then you see someone else hurting, too, and BAM.
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Very true.
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They really are. DD22 has been renting one to get home after work since the Metro is closed. It worries me, but she is going to do what she wants to do.
We really wanted to use them on Saturday night, but couldnât find them. Or the ones we found had dead batteries. So itâs definitely not always that convenient. On Sunday we rented one so DD19 could try it out. She loved it. I tried it too, and promptly whacked my ankle bone on the wheel. I have a lovely bruise and lost some skin. 
I felt pretty uncomfortable with the speed of it as well. I had a bad fall off of DD19âs hover board at Christmas and my back is till not healed, so probably a bit of PTSD.
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Jefferson feels like itâs a million miles away! It was seriously a dark and lonely walk at night.
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I went to DC as a teenager 40 years ago! After the little taste I had this weekend, I canât wait to go back! With DD22 living there for a while, I hope to get in a few trips in different seasons.
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We told you to stay off these types of things!!! No more injuries!!!
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I know! Chessie said, âSo basically you found a way to hurt yourself. No more scooter!â
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I am not comfortable with them. My DH has taken a fall. I preferred the bikes!
So glad you had a great time!
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Cute!!
I meant to comment on this at the time. I kind of grew up in a ghost town or next to one! The mailing address was Pearce, AZ although we lived about 15 miles away. Pearce is a ghost town but there is a little town nearby called Sunsites where my dad lives now. We were in Sunizona. Are you sensing a theme? Anyway, the school (K-8) was in the ghost town. My mom was a teacher. There was one family that actually lived right in the ghost town itself. We would play in the ruins of the houses on Saturday while my mom did school work in her classroom. There was a mine there that flooded and the town died when the mine closed. It was an interesting place to grow up, thatâs for sure. Most of the ruined houses are truly gone now some 40+ years later. The old General Store is still there and the old post office. Plus one adobe jail cell just out there on its own.
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Wow. What a fabulous story!
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DD22 just picked up her new electric scooter today! She did the math and decided it would be beneficial to own one rather than rent them every night she works. Even one way (she can take the Metro there) it adds up pretty quickly. I begged her to buy a helmet. She said she did, but I fear sheâs just humoring me. 
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That is smart! Beats having ro try to find one and make sure it doesnt run out of charge!
Unfortunately she probably is just humoring you, but what we donât know for sure, doesnât worry us?
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Thatâs what I keep telling myself âŚ
Thank you for sharing this trip report! I love seeing people enjoy DC and after moving back this is reminding me of all the things we need to do with the kiddos this summer. 
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