what a grerat day at our nations capital and the whitehouse i mbarked on a 6 hour each way trip to washington dc with my friend shawn, we arrived in dc at 2 pm afyer leaving at 8 am we spent 2 hours in dc walking alittle and taking pics of the white house and the capital building along with the pentagon and the washington monument drove by arlington cemetary and felt a sense of pride to know many people who loved our country areayed to rest there we headed back to the rental car and drove to richmond to meet my friend ruth and her husband for a cheesecake factory dinner . had a great reunion with ruth and met john then headed homeward and arrived in new bern north carolina at 12am 16 hour day of fun with shawn was so cool i look forward to a return trip and more time to thoroughly venture more of the city thanks to all and it was a knockdead kickass day missing my wife and will see her at 10pm monday night love u honey