We have been blessed once again to embark on another trip of 2010....We left yesterday with Joan and Gary for a visit to Washington DC....Our trip consist of about 4 legs; two of which are complete....
We awoke early this morning to pack the car and have breakfast...One of our former students (and Lassiter softball great), Kelli Wheeler, met us at one of her favorite eating places, Elmo's Diner in Carrboro, NC....What a great kid to get up early on a Saturday morning to have breakfast with a former coach and his family...If all our meals are as good as this one, we are going to be so fat when we get back to Georgia....We drove around UNC's campus, but it was hard to get a good feel of the campus due to their noon football game against Georgia Tech...But as always, Josh did add another baseball T-shirt to his collection....
The longest stretch of the day awaited us as we hauled up I-85 and I-95 to Richmond, VA.....The best treat of the day awaited us at The John Marshall House....Mr. E.L. Butterworth gave us a very insightful, intimate, and passionate tour of the Great Chief Justice's home....
After over an hour there, we walked over to the Virginia State Capital grounds, which is much more prestigous than our state capital....
Friday we left Lassiter and drove to Winder to pick up Josh's parents before heading to Hillsborough, NC....We made a pitstop in Spartanburg, SC, then stopped for a delicious dinner at Lexington BBQ in the Barbeque Capital of the World, Lexington, NC...Gary had seen this place on the Food Channel many times, so we stopped and it lived up to the hype...We made it to the Microtel Inn and Suites at about 9:30 Friday night....
We awoke early this morning to pack the car and have breakfast...One of our former students (and Lassiter softball great), Kelli Wheeler, met us at one of her favorite eating places, Elmo's Diner in Carrboro, NC....What a great kid to get up early on a Saturday morning to have breakfast with a former coach and his family...If all our meals are as good as this one, we are going to be so fat when we get back to Georgia....We drove around UNC's campus, but it was hard to get a good feel of the campus due to their noon football game against Georgia Tech...But as always, Josh did add another baseball T-shirt to his collection....Then, we headed 10 miles up the road the the enemy campus and made a quick visit to the Duke University bookstore to add a second shirt of the day.....Once again, campus was just about paralyzed due to the visit from number one ranked, defending national champion, Alabama, being in town today....
The longest stretch of the day awaited us as we hauled up I-85 and I-95 to Richmond, VA.....The best treat of the day awaited us at The John Marshall House....Mr. E.L. Butterworth gave us a very insightful, intimate, and passionate tour of the Great Chief Justice's home....
After over an hour there, we walked over to the Virginia State Capital grounds, which is much more prestigous than our state capital....After grabbing a bite to eat, we made the hour drive to Fredericksburg and saw the 
Fredericksburg Battlefield Visitor's Center, which is at the location of the Old Sunken Road and the Stonewall, where the Confederate Army held off the Union troops for awhile in 1862.....Very informative, but not too intense---nice place to stop and get some Civil War history to break up the ride...
Fredericksburg Battlefield Visitor's Center, which is at the location of the Old Sunken Road and the Stonewall, where the Confederate Army held off the Union troops for awhile in 1862.....Very informative, but not too intense---nice place to stop and get some Civil War history to break up the ride...Finally, we made our way into the nation's Capital from the south.....We got a great view of the Pentagon and the Washington Monument before going under the Mall and up to our hotel on 11th and E streets....We are staying at the 1914 Hotel Harrington...We have a room that has the old 5 panel wood doors and you actually use a real key to get in the door...This place was cheap, but location and history makes it perfect for this trip...We made the 4 block walk over to the White House (actually went north a few blocks to bring Gary in through Lafeyette Park, so he could experience the"WOW" factor of seeing the 
White House from the north side....The bad part of the trip so far has been the fact that Obama or someone important was out in the north lawn or on the porch, so we could only get as close as the middle of Lafeyette Park....We came back to the hotel and stopped for a late dinner at Mr. Kary's favortie place, Ollie's Trolley, which is actually connected to the hotel....
White House from the north side....The bad part of the trip so far has been the fact that Obama or someone important was out in the north lawn or on the porch, so we could only get as close as the middle of Lafeyette Park....We came back to the hotel and stopped for a late dinner at Mr. Kary's favortie place, Ollie's Trolley, which is actually connected to the hotel....Check back tomorrow for updates about Arlington and the west end of the Mall.....Forecast is hot, but should be the best day yet.....
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