Playing Tour Guide

Spent most of last week being the tour guide/hiking director though our Nation's Capitol.  Always more to see; more to do...

Found a great place I highly recommend if you have teenagers- the National Academy of Science Museum by Chinatown.  They had a great hands-on exhibit on Infectious Disease - Bacteria, Viruses, Parasites... great information on how disease is spread and how immunizations work... with real, non-watered down explanations on how viruses reproduce & how anti-virals and retro virals work.  We could have spent much longer there and for $5 donation, it was probably the best thing we did.  Although walking a lot of the neighborhoods was fun for me. I think the paddle boats on the Tidal Basin were a hit too,

The cherry trees are starting to blossom and when the Festival starts this weekend, they will be gorgeous.  I am looking forward to the Kite festival.  I am grabbing my pink shirt and my box kite and heading to the Mall.  Hopefully, the weather will hold up.

Work is actually great.  Maybe it is just being off for a week, but I am pretty pumped.  Maybe its seeing the end of a big project on the not too distant horizon. 

Maybe it was seeing spouse & child for a week.  I am at least a bit rejuvenated.

Oh... and then there was that birthday....