To the Eastern Market

Cinnamon in front of the White House.  

Today after church Chad and I took an easy little walk down to the Eastern Market.  From St. Paul's K Street one can basically walk all the way down Pennsylvania (with a couple of detours) to Independence and then back on to Pennsylvania SE.  One walks past the White House, the Newseum (which we've heard is worth the $20 entrance fee), the Capitol, etc.etc.etc.  There was some sort of bike race going on, and we noticed that, according to the sign on the FBI building, the FBI turns 100 this year.

Chad's Head and the FBI sign.  Chad is so thrilled to be in this picture.

It was a nice afternoon--minimal sweating.  Oddly enough, once on Capitol Hill we ran across a few seminarians!  No, really!  This town is already too small!  We didn't really buy anything at the Market (except that smoothie at Ben & Jerry's), but it's always fun to just browse.  We added a few things to our list of "DC must dos" while walking:

* the double decker bus tour--in October or November

* the Newseum

* gelato at the National Gallery--many, many times

All in all--a decent afternoon. :)