My Trip to D.C. Part 3

We got up at 4am on Tuesday morning to find that the roads were clear of ice and snow. We got to the Shady Grove Metro Station around 6:30 and hoped on the train for a 30 minute ride in to town. By the third stop on our way in the train was full. Every time we stopped more and more people tried to pack in. When we got to the Bethesda stop a elderly gentleman was having medical problems and was trying to get off but everyone kept trying to get on. It was not long before people started pushing people off the train so this man could get through. That would be the only time that day I saw any kind of physical violence. That amazed me because there were 2 million people in that town and there was not one arrest. Anyway we got off the Metro at Metro Center and started walking toward The Mall. We stopped at a coffee shop and got some breakfast on the way. By 7:30 we were at the Mall and we picked out a spot just to one side of the Washington Monument. We started taking pictures of all the memorials, people The White House, and just about everything we could think of. We even got an up close picture of The White House roof that showed the counter snipers walking around. By about 9am the Mall was at full capacity. The motorcade was cool to see as Obama came from The White House to The Capital Building. I was also cool to see all the dignitaries introduced. Finally Obama was inaugurated and gave his Address, which I thought he did a very good job at. The man can speak with the best of them. We left The Mall area by 1pm and were back to the car in Shady Grove by 1:45. We took the belt way around D.C. to skip all the traffic and didn't stop again until we were back in Lexington VA. We got back to Murfreesboro a little after midnight. It was a great trip, it felt like a whirlwind but I'm glad we had the opportunity to go and witness history. PICTURES TO FOLLOW IN FUTURE BLOGS

My Trip To D.C. Part 1

This was the 4th time i had been to Washington D.C. But this time was special. I got to witness history. My best friend since the world was young and a friend that lives above us came too. The trip started out at about 5am. We were about 40 miles south of Bristol TN. when we hit traffic. We were at a dead stand still for nearly three hours because a truck had hit some ice and flipped over in the road. Well our first stop was in Lexington VA. We visited VMI, Washington and Lee University, the tomb of Gen. Robert E. Lee and the tomb of Gen. Stonewall Jackson. After that we continued our trek through Virginia and stopped at Mananas National Battlefield. This is where Gen. Thomas Jackson got his infamous nickname "Stonewall" After that we stopped in Vienna VA. While there we visited Fox Stone Park. This is where the biggest security breach in American Government history took place. An F.B.I agent by the name of Robert Hanson used this park as a drop zone when selling information to the Russian govt. We took pictures under the bridge where he hid the information. From there we headed into D.C. We met up with my roommates cousin. He was brought in town by the US Secret Service for bomb detection services during the inauguration. We did a night tour of the Washington Mall. The monuments we're lit up, it was amazing. We left that night and headed to out hotel just over the Pennsylvania boarder.