Washington D.C. – Day 3

Happy Birthday Marge!   Today is Marge’s birthday so we had a great dinner tonight (more on that later).   We started the day with a visit to Arlington Cemetery.

We came to visit one of Marge’s high school classmates that was killed in Somalia in 1993.

Bart said a nice prayer since he is currently Chaplin for his troop and we paid our respects to the dead before we left.  Our next stop was Mount Vernon, the original estate of George Washington.

The estate was amazing and I never knew George Washington had such opulence.   This guy had a lot to lose so no wonder he gave it his all to be free!

The views from Mount Vernon are spectacular no matter where you look.   The Potomac is fairly serene as the backdrop to this wondrous estate.

After spending the better part of the day on Mount Vernon, we drove back to D.C. to celebrate Marge’s birthday at Fogo De Ciao.   We invited my cousin to the party and we all had a great time and a marvelous Malbec from Argentina.

We fly out late tomorrow and we’ll probably spend the day in Baltimore checking out the city after we leave our hotel but we’ll see how the day turns out.